Monday DE: You shouldn't speak ill of the dead, so I'm not speaking

[splash_of_blue]

Mlrgh.

Remember: Blue Monday isn't real and can't hurt you! It's just a marketing trick!

Also Remember: Monday is real and can hurt you. Drink some water and take your meds (where relevant).

And, while I'm being cheery...

Your character's worst enemy/most-hated foe is dead. What do they feel and how do they react? (And did they do it?)

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[behind_me]

"Are those tears, daughter?"

[acertainpov]

Like okay, this is really complicated for all of mine cause all of mine have really complicated relationships with their worst enemies (what even IS a worst enemy?)

I mean - Fives is pretty okay with killing people who deserve it, and he doesn't care who does it and he's sort of mind controlled to not hold grudges? But grim satisfaction would be what you get if you think of like - Krell, or Palpatine (Fives wishes).

Obi-Wan currently thinks his worst enemy IS dead. Little does he know that he's alive and half-mechanical spider and actually OBW won't be nearly as into him when he comes back. (Like when you get back together with an ex and you just don't feel the spark...)

But then - OBW's ACTUAL worst enemy will be the person he loves most in the entire galaxy and he will want nothing but that man to stay alive long enough to come back from the Dark Side. And only when he ACTUALLY dies is OBW going to be happy about shit but that's because of what happens before he dies, rather than the death.

TL;DR: Death is complicated when it's not actually permanent & also you "have no attachments" (lol)

Simba also currently doesn't know who his worst enemy is but again - it's someone he loves. It's going to be a conflicting time.

Dick - doesn't really want anyone to die, and doesn't feel happy about any death. He found out when Zucco dies there's no joy in it. I guess you'd count Two-Face as his most hated foe? He still doesn't want Dent to die.

Dinah - has managed to get this far without a worst nemesis and is happy to keep it like that thank-you-very-much.

[yinyangwizard]

YT was instrumental in the defeat and destruction of her worst foes. At the time she was mostly just relieved. Now she believes (quite reasonably) that it makes her one of the most badass chicks in the multiverse and she has eternal bragging rights.

Abe no Seimei defeated his rival, the evil onmyoji Ashiya Doman, many centuries ago. He has fought more dangerous and destructive enemies since, but none of them were as significant to him as his rival. He regrets not taking the threat posed by Ashiya Doman seriously enough until it was almost too late. He will not make that mistake again.

Murderbot has defeated multiple enemies in dramatic and violent fashion. Destroying these enemies was simply a necessary task in order to protect its human clients and friends. It still has one enemy outstanding - the company that built and enslaved it. Whether that company will be destroyed, and whether Murderbot will have a hand in it, remains to be seen. The end of the company might make Murderbot feel a little better.

[5ame_heart]

*cocks blaster*

[thesecondjade]

Lan Zhan: Stoic as fuck. He didn't do it, but he isn't shedding any tears. He's sorry he's brother is going to mourn someone who doesn't deserve it, but you know, that's just gonna be something they all have to live with.

Zenigata: This really depends. If it's early in his career, Zenigata will be bawling and broken up, because his greatest hate is also his greatest love. He will be at the funeral. He'll weep at the graveside service. Doesn't Lupin understand that he has to catch him? He can't catch a corpse!

Later on in life: "He isn't dead, we just don't know what his game is this time." He'd wait. Patiently. Years even, before he'll admit Lupin is dead. About the five year mark he will actually start to sweat. Hunt down Jigen and Goemon, Fujiko. Demand answers. By the time year six or seven has gone past, he will hit the skids hard and slide deep into depression and alcoholism. He failed. He failed and he lost his best friend in the process. By then Ami will be grown, he'll retire from interpol, and spend his remaining years drinking himself to death if Lupin is really gone.

Zuko: He extended his hand to Zhao, who tried to murder him. His father, who abused him for years. Azula, who set him up time and again, abused him, and put him in harms way not caring if he died.

He didn't shed tears for Zhao, but his father? It'll be an awkward and unhappy mourning as Firelord Ozai passes as a prisoner instead of a king. Zuko will probably experience a deep bout of depression, and he'll experience it again when Azula finally snuffs it.

[death_gone_mad]

It's happened twice now for Amascut. Well, one happened several millennia in the past, the other happens at a point in canon after when I have been bringing her in. Both times a major foe of hers died, she wasn't directly involved but both times her feeling was, "Good riddance." She probably celebrated the first one, because the whole of the Kharid was probably celebrating too. The first death didn't stick, though, and the first was even revived just in time to be present at the death of the second. She didn't stop to celebrate the second death since there were too many other foes to plot against. Plus, making sure the first guy dies for real this time, though she also has to make sure her father is dead for real first.

She is in a sort of Schrödinger's Cat situation in regards to that part of canon timeline though, because her plotline is still stuck in the era where her brother, herself, and her minor "siblings" are the only gods physically present on the planet, and that stuff with the first guy returning and the second dying happens after the bigger gods are let back into the world. I am hoping that the resolution to her plotline isn't that she was killed off-screen but there is some evidence she is still around. Darn dangling plot threads.

I imagine hearing how the Fairy Godfather was defeated by an interdimensional rift he created got a good laugh out of Fairy Fixit.

[canttrickmeanymore]

Spider-Man doesn't really have a 'worst enemy' yet... he's still semi-freshly minted as a superhero.

Peter has the whole school bully thing - but, he'd just be sad about someone being dead. =(