#character death

Me watching Star City: if nothing goes wrong after the cosmonauts being forced to take a risk it's a lost chance to raise tension. I'd even kill one or two of the cosmonauts in space to raise stakes by showing the viewer how badly things can wrong. For All Mankind did it a couple tim-

Me when Star City kills a cosmonaut:

As they go along, they uncover more and more. Maybe it's not an unsolved dark case, maybe it's just a really old mystery.

And Character learns about the missing person (MP) They find people who remember them, they find letters MP wrote. Pictures they took. They learn about their wants and needs, their personality.

They get invested.

But what started as a fun search turns dark when they start piecing together what happened to MP.

How does it end?

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Pitt (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Dennis Whitaker Additional Tags: Suicide, Suicide Attempt, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Self-Harm, Blood and Injury, Hurt No Comfort, Major Character Injury, Character Death, Dark, Emotional, Self-Doubt, Tragedy, Angst with No Happy Ending, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Dennis Whitaker Needs a Hug, Hurt Dennis Whitaker, Dennis Whitaker-centric, Depression Summary:

The edges of his vision begin to blur, more and more.

The water is still burning hot, yet a strange coldness spreads through him, and his body grows heavier by the second.

His heartbeat slows with every drop of blood that flows out of him, turning the water pink.

It wasn’t often that Danny received a request from Lady Gotham, especially when it came to things like this. She had asked him to personally be the one to guide the spirit of man whose life would soon be coming to end. As odd as the request was, Danny trusted and respected the city spirit.

Which is why three days after their conversation Danny finds himself in Gotham standing at the end of the bed of none other than Alfred Pennyworth. He didn’t know anything other than the man’s name, but it was clear that he was loved. His family silently filled the room; the only sound being the heart monitor steadily announcing each heartbeat.

Beep

Despite being the Ghost King, Danny wasn’t really involved in this part; the dying process. Death he is familiar with, but not dying. The last time he was present for that had been his friend Tucker, and even that had been decades ago.

Beep

Dying is cruel in Danny’s opinion. All it does is take and take. It takes your health, your energy, your last laugh, your last thought, and yourself away from the others left behind.

Beep

He almost wishes that he said no to this request. As he thinks of everyone he loved have to go through this slow process. It is something that despite all the power he holds, Danny can’t make it any easier. All he could do was be there, hold their hand, and wait.

The heart monitor cries a banshee’s scream.

Quickly, someone turns the machine off. Allowing silence and grief to swallow the room once more. No screaming, no wailing, just turned heads with quiet tears. Danny isn’t here to share in the grief of strangers though. He’s here for what happens after death.

Ib has come back to that Gallery time and time again, maybe this time it’ll finally be different. Maybe this time she’ll finally leave with two hands in hers. Then again that’s what she says every time. ——— Ib time loops au and she suffers