death-fics recs
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layne67I'm in the mood for a good cry. Over death!fics, that is. In which one of the main character dies. I'm not saying that I enjoy reading them per se but once in a while I came across truly wonderful fics in which there are character deaths that really moved me to tears. They have to be stand-alone fics though. I won't be able to bear it if, say, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mews1945 decides to kill off her Family!Zeke ( No no no Julia. No ).
They have to be extremely well-written too, otherwise the grief won't come across and make you cry. I've always thought that making people cry, really, really cry, is one of the hardest thing to achieve in writing a story.
The End of the Story written bygrievous_angel is one such example. It's an alternate ending to her epic Houseparty, a Viggo/Elijah love story set in the 1930s. Do go read it if you haven't already. You'll still get the story even if you haven't read Houseparty but for maximum "cryage" you need to read it from the very beginning. Lots of tissues will be needed here.
Then there is this fic written bycloudlessclimes - Deeper Than All Roses, an Orlijah pairing that I read a long time ago way when I was an anon lurker here in LJ. Now that story has always remained in my mind even though I first read it ages ago. Very beautifully written, the death in the story still haunts me till now.
For What Binds Us is another Orlijah, written byoften_adamanta. She writes angst really well and this fic is an alternate ending in which one of the boys is suffering from leukemia, and dies.
So, can anyone rec me a good fic with character death in it? As I've said, I'm in the mood for a good cry.
mews1945 decides to kill off her Family!Zeke ( No no no Julia. No ). They have to be extremely well-written too, otherwise the grief won't come across and make you cry. I've always thought that making people cry, really, really cry, is one of the hardest thing to achieve in writing a story.
The End of the Story written by
grievous_angel is one such example. It's an alternate ending to her epic Houseparty, a Viggo/Elijah love story set in the 1930s. Do go read it if you haven't already. You'll still get the story even if you haven't read Houseparty but for maximum "cryage" you need to read it from the very beginning. Lots of tissues will be needed here.Then there is this fic written by
cloudlessclimes - Deeper Than All Roses, an Orlijah pairing that I read a long time ago way when I was an anon lurker here in LJ. Now that story has always remained in my mind even though I first read it ages ago. Very beautifully written, the death in the story still haunts me till now.For What Binds Us is another Orlijah, written by
often_adamanta. She writes angst really well and this fic is an alternate ending in which one of the boys is suffering from leukemia, and dies.So, can anyone rec me a good fic with character death in it? As I've said, I'm in the mood for a good cry.
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Date: 2006-08-01 05:00 pm (UTC)The closest I came to writing it (and the death actually does occur...but there's something weird about it that I can't explain because that gives it away) is in Citadel, but I'm not pimping it since I wrote it and am not a good judge of my own stuff...just letting you know that it exists. :-)
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Date: 2006-08-01 05:12 pm (UTC)Two Noble Worlds (http://geniusartist.livejournal.com/29919.html) -- features Domlijah and character death. Link is to the first part. :D
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Date: 2006-08-01 06:06 pm (UTC)If this isn't the DIRECT link the story is titled "Ashes".
And yes, Julia. You kill Zeke, I hunt you down and make you watch North over and over again backwards. Yea, he was cute. But that won't matter.
PS...
Date: 2006-08-01 06:07 pm (UTC)PPPPPPS...
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Date: 2006-08-02 08:54 am (UTC)Is it very bad? I havent seen it yet but I'm thinking of doing so.
I've just finished reading 'Ashes'. Oh that is so sad! This is my favourite part :
The next morning, I was not strong enough to tell him.
The next week, I was not brave enough to tell him.
The next month I was not wise enough to tell him.
Half a year after it had happened, he found out.
That terrible, terrible tragedy - all from a moment of weakness. And both of them saying and realizing things that matter, only it was too late.
Thanks honey, for the rec *sniffles*
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Date: 2006-08-02 01:03 pm (UTC)And yea, those ARE some powerful lines. *sniffs with you*
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Date: 2006-08-01 06:21 pm (UTC)http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1127751/1/
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Date: 2006-08-02 08:51 am (UTC)And he didn't get to see Sam for the last time ...
*cries*
What a lovely, poignant tale. I love the way the elves ( the twins!!! ) took care of the Ringbearer, old Bilbo being there for him. And the way they tried to tempt his appetite with all sorts of delicacies which, btw, made me feel hungry if not Frodo *g*
Thank you Janet, for the rec. I enjoyed reading that story very much.
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Date: 2006-08-02 07:07 am (UTC)So long as Casey doesn't get killed either. :)
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Date: 2006-08-02 08:50 am (UTC)*heaves a sigh of relief*
See the roundabout way of me trying to find out what'll happen to Zeke in the next chapter - you did left him in a very perilous situation, you know
:-)
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Date: 2006-08-02 06:29 am (UTC)Europanya wrote the trilogy What Sam Knew, What Frodo Saw, and the last part What Gandalf Heard, Frodo/Sam, post Grey Haven, PG-13 to R. In the last part there is a very heartwrenching death scene.
And...self-pimping. :D A Passage To The West.
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Date: 2006-08-02 09:13 am (UTC)I'm looking forward to reading Falling Up, and your very own death-fic of course!
Thanks for the rec :-)
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Date: 2006-08-02 07:28 pm (UTC)I should do more deathfic. Yes.
Anyway, as an aside, when I was still working in the magazine we held annual shortstory writing contests for teens. Death is such an oft-used plot point it gets NUMBING. Once out of nearly 200 submissions, I found four fatal car accidents, two or three brain cancer (in one of them the lover donates his brain to his dying girlfriend, he dies (d'oh!) and she lives miserably for the rest of her life...ouch!), a couple of leukemias, and in none of these stories the patients are depicted as languishing, suffering, losing hair, etc.--all the things that cancer patients will inevitably do. It's always a surprise cancer. One day the girl is pretty, healthy, jilted. The next day she died, and her callous boyfriend mourned for her all his life. Argh.
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Date: 2006-08-03 03:33 am (UTC)Heh, how about death in movies? The characters always seem to be suffering from something 'clean' if you know what I mean, and never, say, cancer of the colon ^-^
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Date: 2006-08-03 04:38 am (UTC)Urk. Yeah. Why not colon cancer, prostate malignancy, gross skin cancer... You're right. We've never seen any of those around. :)
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Date: 2006-08-03 03:05 am (UTC)I'm glad that Galadriel was there with Frodo just before he gave himself up to the sea. But oh Sam, why oh why must you leave your Frodo? Did you feel alienated at Tol Eressea?
*feels sad at their parting*
*wants them to be together forever*
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Date: 2006-08-03 04:45 am (UTC)Anyway, I read that fic you recced, Deeper than All The Roses? Boohooooo.... That's sooo tragic! It hurts uss, burns uss...and we loves it. *sobs* I think, Lin, if that really happened, God forbid, I'd be making that kind of pilgrimage too, with roses and teddy bears and displaced grief, to that place where he got shot. *wanders away to bawl some more*
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Date: 2006-08-02 09:25 am (UTC)But perhaps you can try the newest fic by [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]? I know it's Frodo, but you can really cry reading that.
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Date: 2006-08-03 03:09 am (UTC)Aah, but you have written one death-story, Shinta. Remember that one? The one that I told you made me cry and I almost couldn't continue reading?
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Date: 2006-08-03 06:27 am (UTC)Goodness. I'm so sorry but I don't have any idea which one. Guh. And I forget also about your lovely feedback. *smacks self*
*washes my brain so it can remember more*
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Date: 2006-08-03 08:23 am (UTC)♥
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Date: 2006-08-03 08:48 am (UTC)Hm. Think I'd share with you a little about it. :D
It was written in an afternoon, around 5, and I completely forgot that it was my boss's birthday in two days. We are quite close and I've been giving her stories for gifts. I had no idea what to write at first but then my mind went to her age at that time.
And I began to think what I could do with that number. I sat and began to type, and I couldn't stop. Well, I don't want to praise myself in this case, but... aduh. I was so sad myself and I wetted my keyboard with my tears. Memalukan ya? LOL.
Yah, begitulah cerita untuk hari ini. Heheh.
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Date: 2006-08-02 09:29 pm (UTC)Really got to me, but she wrote it BECAUSE there was not closure in canon and she wanted closure, for everyone and for herself.
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Date: 2006-08-02 09:35 pm (UTC)*has the image of that tent with a flap that allows the sun to shine on Frodo's face*
*and little Frodo throwing wreaths into the Brandywine*
*reaches for tissue box*
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Date: 2006-08-02 11:07 pm (UTC)Here you go -- http://community.livejournal.com/lotr_fic_recs/45993.html.
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Date: 2006-08-03 03:17 am (UTC)That one just about killed me. Almost every sentence was painful and it wrenched my heart every which way. And it could easily have happened the way she wrote it if Frodo sailing to the West had not been an option.
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Date: 2006-08-02 10:20 pm (UTC)http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1299248/1/
I am not squicked, generally, by anything BUT deathfics. I cannot read them and don't read them, and if I'm not warned and I find a major character dies who does not in canon (i.e., Boromir or Theoden deathfics don't bother me) I get very upset. Frodo or Aragorn, and I go into a deep depression that's hard to come out of.
I read the fic above before I realized I had no tolerance for deathfic---after reading it, I'll never knowingly read another.
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Date: 2006-08-03 03:28 am (UTC)Do you read Harry Potter? There's a rumour that JKR might just kill off Harry and that's an example of a big no-no with me.
:-)
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Date: 2006-08-06 03:51 am (UTC)I heard that she's had the ending planned for years... even has the last chapter written. And that she recently said she'd changed her mind about what characters died and who didn't. Scary thought. Knowing these are primarily young adult/pre-teen/kid's books, I can't believe she'd just kill him off.