Nicholas Leifker wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, David Johnston wrote:
Douglas A. Reeves wrote:
Don't read this if you haven't yet read Bubblegum Collapse!
You've been
warned!
David Johnston wrote:
More importantly, when someone dies that ends hope. No matter
how depressing a fic might be, as long as people remain alive,
they may still be able to change something. Ranma can leave his
abusive spouse, or Akane her neglectful one, Ryouga can get over > > > > his despair to some extent and find a different girl, Kodachi
can get therapy, Tatewaki can kill himself, whatever. Things
can always get better, as long as people stay alive.
I would dispute that statement. There are some wounds that do not heal.
And yet, consider this... when I wrote Bubblegum Collapse, I
considered as an alternate ending allowing Nene to live. Then I
realized that the story would be much, MUCH darker if I had done
that... forcing her to witness the consequences of what she had
done firsthand, to see the devastation she had wreaked, the lives
she had taken... *shudder*
I couldn't do it. It was too much. There are fates worse than
death...
I assume that even if she'd stayed alive, someone important
would have died?
What she had done, while necessary, would have made anyone wish for
death had they been in her position.
Precisely. My point was that death is not always the worst of ends...
some wounds are harder to live with than to die from...
Also worth noting is that in Bubblegum Collapse, hope was dead long
before Nene-chan was...
-- Nick