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⌈ Secret Post #3088 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I think I've seen a fair variety of grief in fic? Depends on the fandom and the characters, but I've seen stories about the shock of disbelief and confusion and anger in the immediate aftermath of a death, I've seen stories set days/months/years later dealing with the smaller, longterm kind of grief (though I think this may be more common in reaction fics to a canon death?), and I've sometimes seen pre-emptive grieving, when the other characters know in advance that one of them will die (either through longterm illness/old age, or because they know in advance they're going to have to sacrifice their life because of circumstances). That last one gets bait-and-switched a lot, when the character is somehow saved at the end, but when done well the grief in advance still feels real.

Like I said, it depends on the fandom and the characters. I think canon deaths tend to result in more of the longer term grieving processes in fics. I've seen extreme, depressive grief being used as a hurt/comfort tool, especially when the surviving character is a fan favourite (not sure how I feel about that one, but it's sometimes done well). Survivor's guilt tends to come up a lot in various types of h/c fic. Grief for a dead loved one is also used a lot in some pairing fics, where one character had a canon spouse/lover that died, and their new lover in the story has to deal with that (again, this one is often not done well). Fics involving immortal characters have a tendency to dwell on how many people they've seen die.

I don't know. It depends where you're looking, I guess. I think for fics dealing with grief, you might have to go outside the actual deathfic itself. It's a slightly separate genre? Deathfic deals with the death as it happens. Grief fic maybe happens separately. Ah. If you're on AO3, try looking for the 'grief/mourning' tags, or a combination of 'canonical character death' and 'hurt/comfort' or 'emotional hurt/comfort'?