Daily Entertainment: The Conjunction Strikes Back

[themightyspazz]

I'm running out of subtitle ideas, can you tell?

How does your character feel about their own mortality?

If they're immortal:

How does your character feel about their immortality?

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[jjprobert]

All of mine are quite definitely mortal.

Bean doesn't think about it. Not directly, anyway. He's well aware that he could die at, quite possibly, any moment. So, he focuses on surviving. He want's to live forever, damn it!

Jack is quite aware of, and okay with his mortality. It's something you have to deal with, as a member of the military, the possibility that you could die at any time. Especially as a member of the military on the front lines of a war.

Alfred is similar. He is however, confident he has at least another year before he dies, courtesy of Milliways spoilers.

Max is more aware of the fragility of human life on the planet, than his own individual mortality. Still...

Erik is more aware of his mortality recently (read: since Thor came). He's not particularly bothered by it, but, well, he's aware.

[ceitfianna]

A few of mine have come close to death and so are very aware of their mortality and the mortality of those they love.

Will, William and Sameth are that way and try not to dwell on death but they all know that it wouldn't take much for them to die or lose someone. Sam's also been in Death and doesn't want to go back to it ever again.

Jane is aware but not on the same level as the others because she's not a fighter. Its a part of her life and she's seen how much a death can hurt someone she loves but does her best to not think on it too much.

Moist avoids the thought of his mortality as much as he can because he knows that there are some people who would like to hang him. One reason he shifted away from having Urquhart in his life is that he's far too caught up in blood and death and Moist doesn't want that.

Charles has an awareness of his own mortality but he tends to worry more about the mortality of those he cares for. He doesn't want Erik to get himself killed for the sake of revenge is the best example.

Tumnus doesn't think about his mortality a lot. I think Fauns are rather long lived though the White Witch showed him how that shouldn't be counted on, but he does his best to live.

The Pirate King lives very much in the moment.

Demeter is a goddess but she's quite aware of mortality as she's so tied to the seasons and humanity. People die, she mourns them but keeps on loving.

[sdelmonte]

Kirk really doesn't think he's mortal. Oh, he knows he'll going to die, and probably to die alone. But he's like a teenager in not really being able to process that fact. Death is something that happens to Other People. Often. Painfully. And under his watch. But his own death? He just doesn't conceive of it. (Keep in mind that there are books co-written by the Great Big Head himself where Kirk's death is undone. I think that in Shatner's mind, Kirk is immortal. And a bit of that is in Kirk himself.)

Knox lives with a virtually immortal woman. That serves a reminder of his own aging and eventual death. The one thing that could make that relationship hard down the line is Knox knowing he's going to die. But for the most part, he doesn't think on it much.

Howard Stark, daredevil pilot and risk-taking engineer, challenges death often. He thinks he can win every time. His ironic death in a car accident probably teaches him otherwise at the end, though.

Cyborg nearly died. That means that ever since he was given a second chance on life, he is not scared by death. It had its chance and blew it.

And Charlie...he DID die. And came back with a clock counting down. He's about a year from starting to show the first signs of cancer again. And he will do whatever it takes to stop it. (PS: He's due a checkup. Charlotte, I need to tag Guppy soon.)

[bjornwilde]

Maybe we should start using subtitles inspired by hard boiled, gumshoe stories; "The Dame That Cried Wolf".

Anyway, Ben is very aware of his mortality and worries mostly that when he dies he will let someone important down, like he'll fall and fail to protect Susan or Franklin or something. What's sad about this is that he is damn close to immortal and will live to be +6,000. At times he will curse this but overall he is happy he got to be there while Franklin needed him and was happy he got to see the Future Foundation grow.

Jessica knows she'll die and is okay with it. If she does have a fear or worry, it is that she will die alone.

Val has already faced her death and got over it. She knows she'll die for real someday but isn't worried about it for now.

Hank just hopes his life will have had some meaning. He doesn't really believe there is anything beyond the death of the body.

Thalia has faced death and while she didn't welcome it with open arms, she did face it down with a spear and shield. Now she is immortal and is still coming to grips with what that means. I don't think she has any true idea yet.

Part of Andrea would welcome death at this point, just as part of her will scream and spit into her/his face. She is quite settled with the idea of her death as she faces the risk of it on a daily basis, or would if her boss would let her do her job.

[knightoftheswan]

Mia is aware of her mortality and can probably come to terms with it regarding herself. However, her friend Nall is a dragon and he IS immortal, so she has I guess a sort of reverse survivor's guilt at the idea of leaving Nall alone. So she still kind of has to come to terms with Nall's immortality and her mortality in regards to that.

Lucas is.....um....*looks at the end of Mother 3*.......open for interpretation regarding mortality? But you guys will see what I do with it here.

Lohengrin is most definitely mortal. His mourning for his wife has actually kind of left him with a latent death wish.

[camwyn]

Gordon doesn't really think about his mortality so much as he gets it FORCIBLY SHOVED IN HIS FACE at every possible opportunity. Somewhere back in Black Mesa, just before making it to Lambda Core, he had a moment of absolute, undeniable knowledge that he was going to die in the next five minutes. This failed to happen and he survived, but once you've had something like that happen to you it kind of lasts.

Shephard is aware that he is going to die and he is okay with that. His general feeling is that he made his peace with the Lord a long time ago, so he's not really worried. He is, however, firmly convinced that helicopters are flying murder death monsters that want to kill him and everyone else who ever gets into one. This is why he throws up whenever he gets out of an aircraft; he's spent the whole time on board convinced that he's going to hit the ground at very high and very painful speeds. Being at peace with the Lord does not free you from the possibility of actually dying hurting like a bastard.

Ray was/is good friends with Belgarion of Riva thanks to Milliways, and Belgarion's daughter Beldaran noticed some time ago that her beloved Unca Ray was just about the only person in her family who was getting old. (Seriously. Daddy's a sorcerer, and in the Belgariadverse, sorcerers get to the age they think of themselves at and then stop aging and pretty much just keep on living until violence or prophetic events eventually kill them. Mommy's a Dryad, and they live as long as their oak trees. Grandfather is Belgarath the Sorcerer, seven thousand years old and looking like Omar Sharif. Uncle Beldin is ugly as anything and you can't really tell what his age is, but he's not changing with time either. Aunt Pol, sorceress; Uncle Durnik, sorceror. Etc.) Beldaran made a deal with Belar, the god of her father's ancestral people, that got Ray the same immortality package as a Belgariadverse sorceror. Ray's currently around a hundred and eleven thanks to some incidents with the Stone Angels and an accident that sent him to 1908 Massachusetts in the Cthulhu Mythos; he got a job at Miskatonic's library and refused to leave the university grounds until he was forcibly dragged on the Antarctic expedition of At The Mountains Of Madness. He has two thoughts about his mortality: one, he really hopes Death of the Endless comes for him immediately because there are some very vengeful spirits in between life and death that have it out for the Ghostbusters, and two, since his lifespan is so extended, at least he can keep up with Romana. Yay.

Mortality is kind of meaningless to Medic thanks to Herr Engineer's respawners kicking in every time he gets killed in battle. He still wants to bitchslap Death with discoveries off the field of battle, though.

Varric doesn't think about it. Why be morbid?

Ellen is pretty sure that, Brotherhood or no, she's going to get killed alone in the wilderness somewhere down the line. She kind of hopes that some stranger will at least be courteous and lay her corpse out neatly, if not bury it; this is why she does as much for everybody she winds up killing in combat herself, whenever she can, and why she prays for all of them, even the mutants and feral ghouls. Getting noted down in the Brotherhood's scrolls of the fallen is a little more than she thinks is likely to happen, but that would be nice too. The Wasteland doesn't leave a lot of room for sentimentality about death.

Hektor hopes to leave a memorable name, an expanded kingdom, and a prosperous people behind him for his eventual son and heir when he dies. Because that's what you do.

Mordin is thirty-five in a species that usually only just makes it to age forty. His view of mortality is that life is too precious to waste in idleness, but that when he does die, he hopes the wheel of Life brings him around again to a time and place where he can make up for his mistakes in this existence.

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut: Well, to quote Neite, Amascut's former high priestess and one of the reasons Amascut is afraid of cats… "Life shouldn't be hoarded, but lived." Despite being enemies, Amascut and Neite still share much of the same opinions about mortality, destruction, and their right to kill whatever they want dead. Amascut and Neite also probably regard their immortality as necessary evils.

[mnt_mike]

Raph used to be romantically involved with the anthropomophic personification of Death...he's uh...kind of okay with his own mortality. Really the only thing he doesn't look forward to is the inevitable awkward conversation that's going to come when he sees Death next time.

"How's things?" is just going to fall a little flat, is all I'm saying.
And if having Death as an ex wasn't reminder enough, he has autopsy-like scarring on his body from his Wizarding vivisection. Kind of hard to miss.

Mike doesn't think a lot about dying, too morbid. Not to mention it's kind of a bad idea when one is a ninja. The other guy is one who's supposed to be doing the dying.

Having said that, Mike has always been kind of curious as to why it is that there's no real mention of what happens to him in his comic canon. He's seen how Leo, Don, and Raph end up...but for some reason he's suspiciously absent from the future of his universe.

He knows he goes to The Hall of Lost Legends, to kick it with all the other outdated and now mythical entities, but...not when he gets there.

Splinter is genuinely surprised every morning he wakes up, because he honestly thought he'd have died long before now. As such every single day is a gift.

Aang doesn't really worry about dying, something that is probably due to the fact that he's died a thousand times over already, but is mostly due to the fact that he's 12.

Bumi thinks about his death a lot. It's one of the reasons he cavorts as much as he does. It's partly being a military man, partly being an agnostic, and partly due to the fact that he's quickly approaching the age his own father died at. He is, however, resolute in his opinion that he will not die before the New Avatar is fully realized. It's just not allowed.

The Loompas are young, and therefore don't really think about their own mortality. Or...well, they didn't before one of them got shot.

Thanks a lot Bucky.

Ida will never die, though she does sometimes worry about blue screening when there's no one around. How embarrassing would that be?! It's the android equivalent of breaking your neck getting out of the shower.

[nerves_of_ice]

"Oh, believe me, I'm glad I could help."

[minkhollow]

Cata and Sam can't not be at peace with the idea. Even if Sam hadn't nearly died like five times over the course of the book, an occupational hazard is that they might end up on the receiving end of a contract sometime.

Claudia's already almost died twice, at her current canon point. She's as squared with the idea of her mortality as she can be at her age.

Apollo: immortal and loving it. There are rarely mortals that he misses to a point he wishes he'd tried to keep them around.

Imp knows he's going to die but would rather it didn't happen just yet (thank you, music with rocks in it).

Regulus... well, his current driving force is not dying before he's been out of school a full year, so you could say he doesn't like the idea at present. XD

Red's aware of the possibility and determined to go down fighting, if she must. (Ruby: OH HELL NO.)

[kd7sov]

Felix thinks about his death more than he'd like to. It doesn't really bother him for the most part, except insofar as he thinks he'd be leaving his world essentially undefended. Once I get some things ironed out he'll probably take on some kind of protege or several to rectify that.

No, Brain, he's not going to become Batman. Hush.

Kain... I'm not sure. He doesn't seek out death, but he doesn't exactly try to live to the fullest either. I definitely get the sense that he's not fond of life, but not enough so that he'd actually prefer death.

Fluttershy doesn't, and I'll thank you not to mention it to her.

[herr_bookman]

Autor's seriously annoyed; he's fairly convinced he'll die before getting everything he wants to get done. That he's easily breakable adds insult to injury.

Somewhat related: Knowing how and when some of the people from Milliways die fascinates him even as it freaks him out.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark is 19 and survived being slammed into San Francisco, having San Francisco fall on him, getting punched across the continental US, being slammed into the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and being thrown against the French Alps. If he isn't immortal, he's damn near close.

And really, he's okay with it. He's not okay with the other people who have the same sort of quasi-immortality. They're pretty much a bunch of dicks. Well, he currently only has a sample of two other such persons - the Immortal and his father. And the Immortal is, in the words of Cecil Stedman, "a colossal jerk." His father... well, you know how that is. So, yeah, bunch of dicks.

In truth, Mark's not really given his nigh-immortality much thought. He's only 19 after all, and he needs to finish high school and get ready for college. He'll save the ruminating on that sort of thing for later.

[inlovewithwords]

Henry totally doesn't think about this.

Tavi's concern lies with the potential death of the people and/or idea he's fighting for. He's well aware he will die one day. But [insert increasingly large and important protectees] need him to do his job.

At her current age, Lois is facing her own mortality more thanks to Smallville being full of murderous nutjobs. She still doesn't really think about it. In general: in a world full of demigods and god-like aliens, she's intensely proud of being who and what she is--mortality included. She chooses to take her risks, and that's that. Canonical endgame might shift her view a bit.

[aberrantangels]

Limiting myself to pups that have journals and are current comm members in good standing and not too bad sitting:

Strong Bad has decided to not die, and The Cheat will probably do his best to emulate that.

Hiro has accepted that death is a thing, and that it'll probably happen to him one day, but that doesn't mean he's going to go down without a fight.

Max and Michael are going to live about as long as they make up their minds to, unless they encounter something capable of killing them. (And such things exist; most Inspired aren't truly immortal, just emortal.) The time after his departure from Earth allowed the Donighal to reach the realization that Max had several years if not decades of Age back: that it's not nearly as important how much time you get as it is how you spend it.

Ryûk is functionally immortal, not just emortal; until he runs out of extra years (which he doesn't plan to do any time soon), he can't even be killed. What this does to him can be summed up in the title of his canon's first volume: Boredom. Before he found Milliways, he used to alleviate this boredom by stunts like, say, stealing a fellow shinigami's note and dropping it into the human world to see who'd pick it up.

Rukia died as a baby to get to the Soul Society; she'll die again eventually and be reborn into the world of the living. She's faced her own death several times in canon and survived each, but she has no intention of becoming complacent.

Jennifer is deeply pissed off by the cheapness of her death, even without knowing that she was doomed by canon.

[aberration]

Elle doesn't think a lot on mortality, mostly because to her it's like thinking about the fact that people have to eat or sleep or whatever. It's just a fact of life. Most of her concerns about it have to do with disappointing people or otherwise failing to uphold some sort of obligations she's set herself.

Manny's over it.

Marceline is immortal, and it's suggested this is a consequence of her becoming a vampire. She can be killed in the typical vampire-y ways (unlike her father, who is "deathless"), but otherwise she's immortal. It's my headcanon that becoming a vampire was her decision (though given that the show likes to put a lot of angst on her, maybe I'll turn out to be wrong on that!), and while it can be kind of lonely sometimes, she doesn't mind or regret it. She also just doesn't have the same sort of context concerning it that others might - plenty of things in Ooo are also immortal, or at least seem to live a lot longer than in normal worlds. While her immortality has contributed to her personal experiences, which in turn can make her experiences loneliness and ennui, it's more a product of these experiences and her own, semi-evil personality than the fact that she's immortal in and of itself.

Leslie and Asami both have pretty typical, occasional-moments-of-terror-but-really-not-a-big-part-of-day-to-day-living feelings on mortality. Leslie's also the type of person who gets very engrossed in what's actually happening, so that when she does consider mortality, it comes in sudden bursts, like when she's trying to sleep, and by 6 AM she's planned her funeral or something.

Asami, on the other hand, experienced the threat of mortality rather early on, but also makes a concerted effort not to let her mother's death control the course of her life, meaning she often just avoids thinking about death too much at all.

[baptizemyself]

Helena is okay with it as long as when she goes down she takes some of the bastards with her.

In fact at several points in canon she seems to be actively trying to kill herself by method of 'bad guy.'

[withherhands]

Jack is definitely mortal, and at this point he's died so many times he's not really afraid of his own mortality. ;) Or more seriously, while he's not looking for a way to end it and while he's starting to come to feel that maybe he should try and do some good and sort some things out instead of wandering aimlessly, there's still kind of a part of him that's just putting in time, waiting until something takes him out. He's still somewhat of the mind he was at the beginning of season 6 where it would be, in his words, "a relief".

M isn't...afraid exactly of her own mortality. She certainly doesn't want to die anytime soon, and she'd fight it to the end. But she also understands that in her position there's a better chance than not that her life will be put in danger, and that there are a variety of situations where her death would be a strategic necessity. She's accepted that possibility. She'd just want to go out the same way she's lived: in service of Queen and country.

[blankflankbuilder]

Considering the rather crazy stuff Apple Bloom does (and by extension the Cutie Mark Crusaders) on a daily basis, she has no concept of her own mortality. She's an Earth Pony with little patience for anything that isn't her friends, what do you expect?

Chris Ramirez on the other is very much aware of his own mortality: he doesn't wnat to die or be 'vented' but is perfectly willing to take the ultimate risk to protect those he cares about.

Not sure about Zoey, as like Apple Bloom's world it isn't immediately dangerous outside of wild Pokemon.

Church doesn't have much of an opinion whether he's immortal or not as if his robot body was destroyed he could just possess someone until he got a permanent body so...