[ SECRET POST #4928 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4928 ⌋

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


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04. https://i.imgur.com/D25cLFc.png
[Emma 2020, OP warned for male nudity (from the back)]


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[Star Wars Expanded Universe, resized]


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06. https://i.imgur.com/R7v6vL6.png
[365 Days, OP warned for image of a dub/non-con sexual situation]


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07. [SPOILERS for Far Cry 5 and Far Cry New Dawn]



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08. [SPOILERS for The Magnus Archives]



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09. [WARNING for sexual assault]



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10. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]






















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #705.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Possible downer endings that aren't just "everything remains the same and it's awful":

1) Jon kills Elias, but then he chooses or he is chosen by the Eye to become Elias's replacement. Martin protests and either Jon freezes him out because he no longer cares about anything but his power, or the Eye kills Martin while Jon looks on in helpless horror tinged with relief that the last tie to his humanity has been removed.

2) Jon kills Elias. Annabelle Cane steps out of the shadows, says, "Thanks for handling that for us," and takes Elias's place herself. Jon tries to kill her, but the Eye refuses to give him that power, because the Web's brand of organized and efficient terror will keep the Eye far better fed than Jon's chaotic efforts.

3) Jon somehow manages to kill everyone in the world. (Unlike the previous example, this assumes that the Eye can't refuse to kill people on Jon's demand, since otherwise it would resist destroying the world it's feeding off of.) He ends their suffering but can't end his own, since the Eye's attention can't harm him. Martin stays with him for the first few centuries, but at last he can't bear it and asks Jon to kill him, too, and then Jon is the sole survivor in the hell he unwittingly created.

4) Jon and Martin find the house on Hilltop Road, and it has a hole in the basement floor. After some argument, they decide to go into it, because Jon's certain that there's nothing they can do to save the world, but they can at least save themselves. Jon goes first and finds himself in a version of the Hilltop Road house that doesn't have a basement. He waits and waits, but either the hole closed behind him, or Martin ended up in a different universe's house, or Martin changed his mind at the last second and never tried to follow him. Jon can't feel his connection to the Eye anymore either, which he thinks should be a good thing, but instead it just makes him feel more desperately alone and lost.

Optional bonus horror: he steps outside and discovers that he's in a dystopian world ala the starving world on the other side of the funhouse mirror. It's not the nightmare he left, but it's still horrible, and he has to experience it as a newly vulnerable mundane person rather than a powerful avatar.


And that's just what I came up with off the top of my head after reading your secret. YMMV on whether any of the endings I outlined are narratively satisfying (though I think how satisfying they ended up being would depend a fair amount on their execution), but there are definitely potential downer endings that don't rely on nothing changing for our protagonists/their world.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay I admit I am wrong in my secret because, for me, 3) is particularly narratively satisfying.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

:D The third one's my favorite of the bunch. It's a little reminiscent of "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," but with less body horror and more heartbreaking sadness.