[ SECRET POST #4867 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4867 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's the sense of finality of a heaven? Safety, I mean. Even in an everyone-lives, happy-ever-after AU, they're all still alive and in a world where more bad shit could potentially happen. In a heaven, you're done with that, shelved, and you're happy and safe forever more. It might add more of a sensation of permanent safety for the characters?

[(Anonymous)]

I hadn't thought of that before, but it's bang on the nose.

[(Anonymous)]

One of the first fics I write was a Tale of Two Cities one where Carton meets the seamstress in heaven. I dunno why I just didn’t write one where they don’t get executed at all. I guess there’s just something kinda romantic about meeting in the next life where nothing can hurt them.

[sparklywalls]

Maybe an afterlife gives more of a sense of all their troubles are over and they can rest now? I'm an atheist too but I *think* that's what might appeal to me sometimes if it's a piece of media where an afterlife is 100% confirmed.

Also "everybody lives" is nice as well but going down the afterlife route means you've still got a death in the narrative and that continues to effect the people left behind. It depends on the kind of drama you're going for I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP - I like this theory :). And yeah, I'm not very religious, either, but there are things that I would like to believe would happen for our loved ones if an afterlife did exist, so on that level exploring that concept makes sense, too.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't believe in the afterlife either, but the trope of a character dying and finally reuniting with their long-dead loved ones is one of the few things that's guaranteed to make me cry buckets every single time. I don't even like the trope, I think it's corny, and I don't find anything about an afterlife to be a comforting concept in reality, so I have no idea why it gets to me so much.

[(Anonymous)]

You're allowed to write about things you don't believe are real. That's why it's a fantasy.

[(Anonymous)]

I only like afterlife fics if they're set in some other universe where there would be an afterlife because there are also dragons and magic. There are some in the LOTR fandom I enjoyed.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, it's fiction. It happens all the time that the rules of fictional worlds don't match the rules of the real world - both in the obvious sense of fantasy and magic, and in the more basic sense that things occur based on a narrative logic.

[(Anonymous)]

+1, it's fiction. I'm a lifelong atheist so I don't really get or enjoy the "benevolent deity" part of it if it's written that way, but I'm happy with reincarnation or an afterlife or ghosts or whatever for characters in fiction.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really care about whether afterlives exists (I think that's considered agnostic?), but I definitely don't believe in reincarnations, especially the versions with retained memories (souls reincarnating? errrr again dunno don't care).

I still love reading it tho. Everyone lives just isn't the same. I think it's that dash of angst, like we still died, but here's some hope for us after all that bad stuff happened.

[(Anonymous)]

Possibly it doesn't scratch that itch because an Everybody Lives AU doesn't give any closure to a character arc that ends in death, pretty much by definition. The death is part of the arc, and depending on the character and the story, it may be the exact thing that makes the arc tragic.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's particularly nice for characters who are religious. So even if I don't believe in their canon religion it's nice to explore their belief in it.