Thursday DE

[needsmoreresearch]

Is your character good at saying goodbye? To people, places, things... What's their approach?

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[bjornwilde]

Assuming it's a permanent goodbyes...

Sabine will turn her back and try her best not to think about it. It's over and done. (This doesn't work but she's still figuring that out.)

Ahsoka will face them with resolve and bitter regret, but will accept that things are over. Eventually she'll look back but not until she's made enough distance (emotional and/or physycal) that she won't be tempted to turn back.

ETA: OK, now that I've had time to think, I need to change Ahsoka's answer. She can say goodbye, even if it seems a permanent one, but I don't think she believes in closing doors. She is always hopeful to see the person or place again, even as she's walking away. She may need a lot of convincing that walking away is what's right (perhaps even repeated use of the plot brick (see season 05 finale)) but once she sees it, she'll act on it no matter how much it hurts. Again, see the end of season 05. Walking away from Anakin was more painful than walking away from the Order, but she did it because she saw she needed to.

Elliot is horrible with goodbyes and will cover his pain with flippancy and coldness before turning for a drink to take the edge off.

[just_cant_lose]

Ummm...



(No.)

(Well. He certainly does it dramatically. And also says hello dramatically.)

(Basically: drama.)

[harryhotspur]

Harry's range from "I'd like to make a speech but I'm shit at this, let's all hug" to "STOP ASKING ME QUESTIONS WOMAN YOU CAN COME TOO ARE YOU HAPPY NOW."

[clayforthedevil]

Style points!

[feminine_menace]

If YT is doing a "see you later" kind of goodbye, she may use the sarcastic Kourier sign-off "surfing safety," if she likes you.

As for more significant, permanent-parting kind of goodbyes...does YT know when it's time to move on, and is she able to not keep clinging emotionally? Yes. But can she move on with a civil farewell and a minimum of profanity and insults? Hell no.

[cottoncandypink]

lol No.

[forceimbalance]

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[i_am_your_host]

Of course Emcee is good at saying goodbye, he can say it in multiple languages. :p

Apparently auf Wiedersehen literally translates into "until we see again" so it's more hopeful and less permanent than goodbye. It implies that there will be a next time. And he prefers that idea than never seeing you again ever.

[harryhotspur]

"A bientot" is also more like "see you soon."

[i_am_your_host]

And he doesn't say goodbye in English at the end. Bawl.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Um. Well, Adventure ends on the kids saying goodbye to their Digimon - forever, as far as they know at the time, even though it turns out to be very definitively not forever - and Yamato and Gabumon basically don't.

They sit on a hill, and Gabumon asks Yamato to play the harmonica, and he does, and that is the sum total of their goodbye. Which characterises how Yamato and Gabumon both say goodbye, really: They don't, or at least they don't with words.

[brobrobrobrobro]

"STAY DOWN, BRO."

[vance_prime]

"I'm not saying goodbye" is a recurring line of Alyx's in canon. She says it to her dad a lot. If you've played through Episode 2, you know that doesn't turn out so good.