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If /lit/ was to write a novel and dedicates about 600 pages on it and you would have to do one of the following things, which would /lit/ decide to?
>go for a happy ending in which the main character survives
>go for an ending in which he has to die

The oldest of old dilemmas, but which would you prefer over the other? And why?

>> No.12436708

>>12436691
Sad ending. Or even better. Bittersweet; I don't know why they feel more "romantic" I guess.

>> No.12436715

The character's fate should reflect the character.

>> No.12436717

The ultimate ending is having the hero live his life as an unknown shadow of his true self, and his love is a shade in the underworld.

>> No.12436775

Happy ending. Odyssey has a happy ending, War and Peace has a happy ending, Divine Comedy has a happy ending

>> No.12436786

>>12436691
objectively the best ending is the one the poses the biggest thematic question around the conclusion.
A good example is.
Bob did ___
Was ___ a good thing?

>> No.12436791

>>12436691
The main character survives as a god, he is supremely happy and towers over his old existence until he realizes he has to see millions of his former kin live in despair and see everything he loved turn to ash.

Also he is constantly involved in the silly erotic sheananigans of the other gods, he wish he could make them stay put just for one day, but the king of gods is actually the most erotically obsessed of the bunch, so he has to endure it.

>> No.12437192

>>12436708
this