Predictions on LTROI's Epilogue

[TΛPETRVE]

I'm all for suicide.

[lombano]

I'm all for suicide.

I think it's the better ending in the absence of a deus ex machina.

[TΛPETRVE]

Actually, I was writing a short epilogue about a jogger finding the incinerated bodies of both Oskar and Eli clasping each other, on a meadow in the early morning. The whole story would have ended with a short newspaper article about the discovery, Oskar being identified. Don't know how many of these are already in the Fan fic section, I don't like to read fan fic.

I dismissed the whole idea, however. Couldn't finish it. Each time I tried, I got bogged down in finding the appropriate language. Also, it somehow made me furious.

[cmfireflies]

4) Eli turns Oskar and they live happily ever after

This. I don't care that it's artistically unsatisfying. I like the characters more than I want the story to be "realistic"

[lombano]

Actually, I was writing a short epilogue about a jogger finding the incinerated bodies of both Oskar and Eli clasping each other, on a meadow in the early morning. The whole story would have ended with a short newspaper article about the discovery, Oskar being identified. Don't know how many of these are already in the Fan fic section, I don't like to read fan fic.

I wrote a fanfic story involving this outcome - I think it's the only one ending in suicide in this site's fanfic section so far.

[TΛPETRVE]

Did you write it with Oskar and Eli involved or from a third person's perspective?

[lombano]

Did you write it with Oskar and Eli involved or from a third person's perspective?

Omniscient narrator, but didn't describe their deaths, just everything leading up to it - then it had a kind of epilogue consisting of two news articles, one of them about their remains being found.

[TΛPETRVE]

Alright, then I'm glad I didn't finish my work.

[gattoparde59]

The very first thing I read in this forum was a suicide note from Eli. I can't seem to find it in the Dear Eli/ Dear Oskar thread.

I started, and then gave up on an epilogue where Eli visits a middle aged oskar, who is now married and has children of his own.

[TΛPETRVE]

Maybe I'll get my ass moving and do the picture of dying Oskar embracing the charred remains of Eli I once planned. It's just a matter of getting the heart to do so .