Thinkin' My Thoughts About Death Fic

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Why, oh why, do I love death fic like I do? Nothing makes me quite as happy (or sad, in a happy way) when my favorite characters bite the big one it, hopefully in as tragic and devastating a method as possible, leaving the survivors bereft and reeling.

Is it my psyche's way of dealing with my own anxiety about death? Trying to answer the big questions about why we're born, why we die and, hey, isn't this digital watch pretty neat?  Perhaps it's the catharsis? Or maybe I'm a closet sadist?

These are the questions that I'm not sure I want answers to.

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She believed that Fate is not a constant, written at birth, but claimed.

Oh, I like this.

We get to write the last line of a life as a grand gesture. We control Fate – if only by proxy.

Mm, yes. Death as it should be. I think also there's something in us that needs the completion. So often in series, that's what we don't really get--either we're kept hanging on from episode to episode, season to season, or the show's canceled and we're left wanting more. Or writers use death as a tool to keep a character or a relationship from changing. Romeo and Juliet is so gosh darn romantic because they never get the boring, unromantic parts of the relationship.

Or something like that...

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*smiles*

Well, and plus there's just the pleasure of making the characters live their lives in different ways. House is a Roman! Wilson's a male prostitute! Wilson has a triceratops in his office! They're both penguins!

And sometimes death is a part of that life, and we get to write that too.

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Well, and plus there's just the pleasure of making the characters live their lives in different ways.

Heh. Yes, that too, definitely.

Wilson has a triceratops in his office!

Now I totally want to see that. Triceratops was always my favorite dinosaur.