[ SECRET POST #3131 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3131 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[Vic Fontaine/the EMH, Star Trek DS9/Voyager]


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03.
[The 100]


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04.
[No. 6]


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05.


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06. http://i.imgur.com/TyMQsJn.png
[linked for gore]


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07. [SPOILERS for Hannibal]



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08. [SPOILERS for Mad Max: Fury Road]



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09. [SPOILERS for Deus Ex: Human Revolution]



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10. [SPOILERS for Far Cry 4]





11. [SPOILERS for Far Cry 4]



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12. [SPOILERS for Persona 3]
[WARNING for suicide]



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13. [WARNING for rl animal death]

[CATS!]


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14. [WARNING for rape]

[Once Upon a Time]














Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #447.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That's really weird to me because I don't think it's necessary.

Especially in the case of DS9. Pretty much the entire 7 seasons of DS9 already exist to demonstrate that there aren't always happy endings. It seems really unnecessary to also have Vic get wiped. I mean, hell, that's literally the theme of one of the big Vic episodes as it is.

I'm also just not sure why you're focusing on the AI characters specifically as the means to demonstrate that there's not always a happy ending. I don't know. This secret is just weird to me.

[kamino_neko]

That's really weird to me because I don't think it's necessary.

Yeah...of all the series to apply this idea to, these two?

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I think the reason I focused on the holograms was because the idea of "loss without death" appealed to me from a story perspective.

In DS9, I had no idea how it was all going to turn out, but since it's generally the minor characters who die first in these situations, I thought it would be powerful if, during an attack on the station, the equipment that ran the holosuites was badly damaged, so that once it came back online, Vic was still around, but had lost his self-awareness of being a hologram. It would have affected pretty much all the major characters, and been an interesting take on the "casualties of war" idea.

As for Voyager, I was assuming that the whole show would have a happy ending, with everyone getting home and reuniting with their loved ones, and I thought the idea of the EMH being studied and "factory reset" would add a bittersweet note to proceedings (this was before we learned about the Mark 2 EMH's, and WAY before the "photonic rights" storylines kicked in; after that, it was obvious that they would be going for a pure happy ending).

I can see why you think it was weird and unnecessary, but I guess it just appealed to my morbid streak.