@corporatestooge and I had this whole long involved discussion about basically (uh cw character death, super angst):

some nonspecific shenanigans go down on helios

jack-piloted rhys ends up in an altercation with sasha

sasha gets the upper hand relatively quick bc rhys is a noodle no matter who is at the wheel

before she can hurt him though rhys is like wait wait wait sasha stop! so she does

jk it was jack messing with her, he disarms her, they’re fighting again

jack’s taunting her the whole time about how rhys is dead, or is he?, he is, or maybe he’s freaking out right now!, or maybe i’m just throwing you off your game haha

sasha finally gets the upper hand again, gets one of those split second telltale decisions like [shoot him in the arm] [shoot him in the chest]

decides rhys is gone, jack’s using him like a meat suit, that’s fucked up and i need to end it, goes for [shoot him in the chest]

while jack is dying he’s still doing the “wah sasha it’s me” thing, which she ignores... until he starts talking about how it’s not her fault, she did what she had to, it’s okay, and she realizes it actually is rhys this time

so rhys dies in her arms while sasha sits there thinking about how she could’ve just shot him in the arm

i guess eventually fiona finds them, like the gif of troy returning with pizza, manages to drag sasha to an escape pod or whatever so they can get back to pandora

fiona represses the hell out of everything so she can focus on taking care of sasha who is obviously... like... shattered

presumably vaughn never speaks to either of the girls again

athena and sasha share some nice ‘accidentally killed someone we loved’ bonding 

ha HA bet you didn’t think i had anything that elaborately plotted huh hbc

Z: Major character death–do you ever write/read it? Is there a character whose death you can’t tolerate?

I read it sometimes, I have never written it in a permanent lasting way. I’m interested in it mostly for short stories like one or two shots, to explore the event and maybe the immediate aftermath. I’m less likely to read a really long fic that is going to culminate in death. I would maybe read a long fic where the death happens early on and the rest of the fic is the aftermath, but then it would really depend who the fic was focusing on and who died. 

THESE POSTERS! /heavy breathing cat