[ SECRET POST #3442 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3442 ⌋

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Comments

Dying of a broken heart

[(Anonymous)]

Has this trope ever been done well? Because I genuinely would really like to see a well-done, believable example of it, but I have never, ever seen it happen.

(Fanfic counts too!)

Re: Dying of a broken heart

[kaijinscendre]

It isn't like a specific broken heart, but in World War Z they talked about people that just couldn't deal with what was happening. So they just go to sleep one day and never wake up.

Re: Dying of a broken heart

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know for sure because no specific fics come to mind, but I would try the Tolkien elf fandom? It's canon that elves often (though not always) waste away and die of a broken heart if their partner dies.

Re: Dying of a broken heart

[feotakahari]

I once read a terrible Mercedes Lackey book where when someone's soulbound animal companion dies, they immediately are overcome with crushing despair and commit suicide in the quickest way possible. It was pretty fucked up.

Re: Dying of a broken heart

[(Anonymous)]

Can you fucking read? The OP says "done WELL"

Re: Dying of a broken heart

[feotakahari]

It was a terrible book, not a terribly done trope. I'd say it was one of the few things that actually worked. (The book had a decidedly mixed opinion on the whole "bonded soul" thing.)

Re: Dying of a broken heart

[diet_poison]

man that just sounds depressing :(

Re: Dying of a broken heart

[sadiesockmonkey]

Somewhere in Time, the 1980 movie starring Christopher Reeve & Jane Seymour?

Re: Dying of a broken heart

[(Anonymous)]

It comes up a lot in folktales and songs, and consequently adaptations of those. I like Charles Vess's graphic novel that features a bunch of different takes on folk songs, particularly Midori Snyder's "Barbara Allen," which is sort of half "Barbara Allen" and half "Tam Lin" tbh.

Re: Dying of a broken heart

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt, but now I've got to go looking for that. I always kind of thought Sweet William sounded like a passive-aggressive Nice Guy though.