HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT WE SHOULDN'T HAVE ENDED UP HERE?

[dousing]

BAD END MEME Sometimes you want a fix-it AU. You want everyone to live, to be happy, to find love, so on and so forth. You want the bad guy to lose early, for victory and triumph. Those are great things. Those are happy things. But sometimes terrible things happen to good people and you want to get catharsis through making some characters suffer. We understand. We really do. Sometimes no one wins. Sometimes the villain wins. Sometimes even if the heroes win everything is for naught. Sometimes, things just don't end happily. • Top level your character. Include any details you might think are relevant. Or don't. As always, we're not the cops. • Reply to other people's top levels! • Have fun!

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Jyn Erso || HOW COULD I NOT DO THIS

[kestreldawn]

Open to all! :)

Marie Kreutz l The Bourne Series l OTA

[reluctantaccessory]

(LET'S MAKE THIS WORSE THAN CANON.)

Tiki | Fire Emblem | OTA

[chikizard]

( Particularly interested in scenarios set in Future Past timeline. )

prompto argentum | ffxv

[messofhangups]

Bart Allen/Kid Flash | Pre-Nu52 | OTA

[kid_flash_found]

[Whatever happened to the Mighty Endowed, anyway?]

Georgia Mason | Newsflesh Trilogy

[choosetruth]

[Ironically, Georgia's bad end is the one where she lives.]

newt scamander • fantastic beasts

[maternis]

[ ota. ]

[adaptiveimmunities]

[It's a dream, and George has to know that. She's never been very good at any kind of lies--even self-delusion--in the best of times, and this is not the best of times. Shaun knows he's dead. He remembers telling George that he loves her, and to shut the doors of the van, leaving him on the outside. He doesn't remember much of anything after that, but he's guessing that's because he's a figment of George's imagination, and not actually real.]

Hey.

[choosetruth]

[He's not real. They both know he's not real and even now, George isn't a good enough liar that she can convince herself otherwise. They shut the door and Shaun--

She throws her arms around him. She's dreaming. She knows she's dreaming. The way her vision blurs with tears she could never have in reality, even now, with her brother dead.]

I've missed you so much. But you're not real.

[But it doesn't make her squeeze him any less tightly.]

Alex } Oxenfree

[allsetfree]

killua zoldyck | hunter x hunter

[anpo]

( let's be real, there's a lot of ways this could go. i'm up for any of them! i'm open to discussing them a bit, of course! )

Margo Hanson | The Magicians

[ibiza]

[ Give me angst! Give me sorrow! ]

[adaptiveimmunities]

Just because you're imagining me, doesn't mean I'm not real. I'm real to you, right now. [He hugs her tightly, though. He wishes he could be real for her.] I'm sorry.

[juvied]

[YOOOOOO i never thought i'd see oxenfrees around!!

canon is rife for Bad Ends but i was thinking of doing something with the ending where alex seals herself away with the ghosts to save everyone? like she's gone but a couple years later or so jonas goes back to the island because he can't leave well enough alone, especially when it comes to the sister he was just getting to know. how's it sound?]

[allsetfree]

[ AAAAAAA same. I've seen a Nona around somewhere. I'm looking for a game for Alex, but idk! --Yes that sounds really good!! Wanna get starter or should I? ]

i got it! here we go

[juvied]

[All this time later, Jonas still isn't sure just how many times they all repeated that night on Edwards Island. He doesn't know if Ren, Nona or Clarissa remember there being more than one night at all. Jonas himself doesn't have a clear grasp of all the loops, not like Alex did; to him they're hazy visions of the same scenarios but different paths. He can't make it out with any sort of certainty, but the thing is that he knows it happened again and again and again, and not just because of Alex's insistence on the loops while he was with her. It took a while for him to accept the reality of that island.

It took longer to settle into life in a house he was supposed to be sharing with another sibling. Even now Jonas isn't entirely comfortable there. Alex's mother treats him like her son, after his dad helped her move past the grief of losing yet another child, but whenever Jonas looks at her all he can think of is Alex and the failure of letting... whatever happened to her occur at all. He doesn't even know what happened to her, which is probably the worst of all.

Nona, Ren and Clarissa steadfastly avoid talking about the island whenever he actually sees them, which isn't much. He hadn't had enough time with them on the island for them to switch from being Alex's friends to his friends, and in the wake of how that night resolved itself, the rift only grew wider. Which is fine with Jonas, if he's honest. He hadn't had enough time to get to know them to mourn what was lost. Alex, however - that's another story. And that other story is what has Jonas stepping off the ferry and back onto Edwards Island nearly three years later, a handheld radio in the pocket of his hoodie next to a crumpled pack of cigarettes.

This is a colossally stupid idea, assuming it'll work at all. He's heard conflicting reports from the school kids following the rumor of the strange rocks and radio waves out here, some swearing they'd gotten an answer while most said that the strange happenings were completely gone. But Jonas has to try. If there's something he can do for Alex he has to at least try. She took a chance on him, talked to him, got to know him, allowed him to speak with his mom one final time. She deserves more than just... disappearing like this.

He waits until nightfall, keeping away from prying eyes until the last ferry is gone and he can wander the island freely. The cave at the beach is still blocked by rubble, but that's fine. Jonas remembers his way to the bunker. His heart is pounding the entire way down into the bunker, past the door left open by Alex's radio all that time ago, as he pulls the radio from his pocket. He's simultaneously afraid of this working and of it not working as he begins trying every station, his message a variation on the same theme:]

Alex? Hey, if you can hear me, it's Jonas. Just... come in, or something? Please. I'm here. I'm listening.

[If she hears him, will he hear her voice? Or will she be forced to communicate like the ghosts did back then? A shudder shoots down his spine, one that has nothing to do with how cold the cave is.]

Orga Itsuka | Gundam: IBO

[evocate]

[ lafftrak.mp3

how will he not have a bad end anyway ]

[fieryknowledge]

[ooc: Soooo. Business as usual, yes? Interested in something post-game with Iggy?]

[choosetruth]

I'm not that good at lying to myself. [She leans up and kisses him and he feels real.]

[allsetfree]

[ Alex doesn't know what has happened off of the island ever since she closed the rift. Time is... Strange, now. Infinite and enclosed all at once. That makes no sense. But nothing the sunken had said before ever did, either. It's just a whole lot of eternal nonexistance.

The loops were - interesting. Glimpses into the inevitable future, she guesses. She feels like she should understand it all better, now that she's just as much a ghost as the rest of them. When Clarissa had - no, that's not fair. When she had left Clarissa behind, just once, no one remembered her after. Like she had never existed.

She wonders, sometimes, how the world would rewrite her absence, if at all. Did she disappear on the island? That's the truth. Or did she never exist to anyone? (And if that's the case - what does that mean for Michael? Is he safe at home? Safe in New York?)

And what about Jonas?

It's not as if no one comes to the island, anymore. She watches them, all unfamiliar faces. She doesn't expect otherwise. And she is unseeable, removed from reality with no tether. On the other side of a rift. A glass window. But at least it keeps the ghosts in with her, and this wall she's closed in around them all is harder to break down than it was before. She makes sure of that.

It's been - forever. It's been no time at all.

Jonas still sounds the same. And it just startles her, she's just surprised that anyone would be dumb enough to come back here after that night and do something so stupid.

Her voice comes through his radio, far less fragmented than the others, but still through a thick static and somehow wrong. ]

Why.

[ It's hard get her tone right. It's hard to speak without letting the rift split open. ]

[juvied]

[Jonas actually starts when the word bursts in static back at him. He's wide-eyed, heart hammering in his throat, hand clammy around the radio. And it's - not how Alex would have ever sounded, of course, but it's her voice. Definitely. He swallows hard, manages to find his voice again, looking around the cave like he's expecting her to show up out of thin air. Like he'll be able to find her if he looks hard enough.]

I couldn't just...

[It's been one word, but actually hearing Alex again is overwhelming. Jonas has to blink against the stinging in his eyes. But he has no idea how long he has to talk to her, so he forces himself onward.]

I couldn't just leave you here. I don't - none of us even know what happened to you! And I was... I was supposed to be there with you.

[And that's the heart of it. While he doesn't exactly regret getting another moment with his mother, the matter of the fact is that because he was hung up on his mom, he left Alex hanging when she needed him most. He let down someone important to him again. Would his presence there, in that moment, have made a difference? The problem is that Jonas will never have the chance to know. Because he wasn't there then, and now Alex is stuck... wherever it is the ghosts are. Nowhere pleasant, that much he knows.]

There's gotta be something we can do. Something that'll, I dunno, keep them in there and get you back here. Maybe it'll be different if we're working from two different sides?

[This is Alex's town, Alex's life, not Jonas's. Maybe it could've been his, but not like this. Not when he was out here and Alex was in there.]

finn collins | the 100 | ota

[passived]

[ what could be worse than already having the bad end? ]

[allsetfree]

[ Speaking through the radio is like trying to move a limb that's been asleep for too long. Anna's morse code messages hadn't done anything to help her, so Alex hadn't followed in those desparate footsteps. She couldn't take form on his side of the rift if she tried. The only way for them to see each other would be to open the rift and talk through it. Opposite sides of the window.

She's afraid to do that to herself.

The thought crosses her mind that it would be easier to talk through someone, easier to use a live host besides his little radio, but she forces it away just as quickly. She is angry to have thought it for even a second. She is bitter that he thinks there is anything that can be done.

Positive emotions are hard to hold on to. She doesn't regret her decision. It just sucks, and there's no getting away from it. That's the whole message she's been trying to teach the ghosts, isn't it? ]

You have to accept when your time is up.

gellert grindelwald. hp/fbawtft.

[negativechill]

[ he already got his bad end, but maybe it's a bad end for everyone else this time. ]

Ethan | Teen Wolf

[loves_hawaiian]

[He's had a pretty bad ending.]