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Giftorcurse
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22 Jan 2011, 12:22 pm

I rely on three:
Bittersweet Ending- Happiness comes with a price tag.
Downer Ending- Prepare to get crushed.
Gainax Ending- "How's Annie?"


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22 Jan 2011, 1:49 pm

Gainax Ending- "How's Annie?"[/quote

Translation please?



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22 Jan 2011, 2:03 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Gainax Ending- "How's Annie?"[/quote

Translation please?


http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GainaxEnding

I prefer brutally tragic ending.



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22 Jan 2011, 2:04 pm

I like good endings.



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22 Jan 2011, 2:08 pm

"And then a meteor struck down and killed everybody. The End"



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22 Jan 2011, 3:33 pm

Sort of related, most hated ending:

"And then he woke up and realized it was all a dream. It was time to forget about the aliens, spies and impending apocalypse and get to work to support his 2.3 kids."



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22 Jan 2011, 3:37 pm

If I were writing stories, I'd probably try to be as realistic as possible with my endings. Sometimes, I might be brutally realistic. :roll:


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22 Jan 2011, 3:54 pm

Happy Ending



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22 Jan 2011, 5:37 pm

Since i'm very influensed by realism and naturalism i like story endings to be as realistic as possible. Which usually means not super happy but not super sad either.


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23 Jan 2011, 5:57 am

I've personally only used it once, but I really loved writing it. :)

Using the TVtropes style, it'd be Heroic sacrifice/Taking you with me by the use of explosives.



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23 Jan 2011, 7:29 am

I like happy endings, but happy endings where they have to be really earned. I make my characters in my fiction go through the wringer.


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28 Jan 2011, 1:53 am

Earned happy endings, because, I mean, who in their right mind wants to see everything (or almost everything) fall apart on the main character(s) after everything they just went through?


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