there’s a long amount of context but it was one of my biggest highs in rp — i made two characters who were effective narrative foils of each other but in the kind of “tragic foils” kinda way where, no matter what way you look at it, it would always be an impossibility that the two can coexist together and be happy, no matter how much they tried to make things work. it never will.
that eventually resulted in a solo thread between the two of high stakes and a countdown. it was effectively a fight to the death — both of them were actively trying to stop the other from achieving their goals (which, ironically, was one of them wanting to save the other / rewrite her narrative, while the other was rapidly careening into full doomed villain tragedy). lots of payoff, lots of emotional deconstruction, etc. and in the final moment, the knife stabbed one of them, and i didn’t specify who until the next post. i really wanted that thread to have the energy of “whoever came out of this alive, if someone would, there is a narrative that is still possible”.
and then it’s revealed who got stabbed, and i write her death post. the thing is, the other character suffered a major injury too, so i write his “death” post (quotation marks for a reason; he was going into shock and passed out). didn’t say anything fully confirming either characters’ fates in the server for a few days. people’s reactions were hilarious. some were mourning, others in disbelief, etc.
then it’s revealed the one that went into shock survived.
and then i got yelled at.
11/10 would do it again.
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