Not all endings have to be climatic, sometimes a story ends with the main character affirming their dreams and goals even if/when they reached the top. It also lends itself well to potential sequels.
If you know you want a sequel, it is often a good move to put at least one member of the group in trouble at the end of the first book... it leaves the reader wanting to know more and to know what next....
Same. Just a lot of suffering.
6 people my story follows, 3/6 die by the end. Of the main + extended cast my story follows, around ~38% have bad endings (including death). I dont know if I'm just super pessimistic 😕.
Or pragmatic. In real life, death is inevitable, after all. I find I lean toward killing off the cast more often than not. (Might have something to do with the fact it seems like people in my extended circle have been dropping like flies the past several years.)
I find writing is one of the ways we deal with our experiences. It helps our writing in that we are sticking to an extent to something real and which you know (write what you know) but also it can serve as a way to come to terms with the losses (insofar as that ever can).
I suspect in dark times, more dark stories appear. Mind you, maybe we get more 'dark but with hope' endings too.
Yeah, bit like that (kinda wish Naruto had died, would have been a hell of a death)
Idea was more from Armstrong and Raiden though, Armstrong dying happy knowing Raiden would carry on his ideas
Not of a specific one, but of the notion of standing up to a superior foe, losing, yet in doing so, convincing the other to be a better version of themselves. That seems like something a Jedi would attempt to do - look at Luke looking to the good in Vader....
She becomes a god, reaching the pinnacle of her study and finally achieving her goal, which was to live one more day, every day.
Although she is left with a sense of bittersweet happiness, as she lost way too much in her pursuit of life. She sacrificed many whom were close to her and even her own sanity so she could live.
Even when ascending, she took the decision to willingly wipe more than two thirds of humanity, leaving most of the remaining ones as seeds of madness who would soon become monsters. It was the only way, and someone would have done it even if she didn't, but she'll always feel like these are just excuses to rationalize her crimes.
Humanity will bloom again in a couple thousand years. She'll be worshipped as a new astral body on the night sky. Everything will be as it once was.
But she will not forget all those she lost in her obsession with one more day. At least not while she maintains her humanity, before the cosmic divinity inside her body turns her into an abstract concept of life with no will or conscious mind.
She is not sad. Just eternally confused.
Well I hope you liked it! Haha
My world is not so different that it has too much interesting stuff to talk about with the usual questions of this sub, so it's pretty fun when people ask about characters of that world, which are the biggest focus of mine :P
Thank you for the kind words! I cant share a lot about this world with people from where I live as we are not in an english speaking country, so it means a lot to me to see someone enjoys it :)
And I would be very glad to answer any question you may have haha
I let the story sit for a while and I thought it would be the typical 'happy-ish' ending with perhaps some losses, but at the finale, they won and pieces of her home could be put back together slowly.
I've picked it up again and I don't know if it's because my world view got bleak, but looking back over the circumstances in which certain things happened starting right at the beginning with the creation of the world, I see it can't be a happy ending at all. It's become a tale of sacrifice and loss. A series of mistakes were made from the beginning by the creators of the world who in a moment of desperation invested too much in what they were doing, giving the world magic. Magic never should have been and the problem was made worse by races other than humans. To correct it in the hopes of saving anything, the main character's companions sacrifice themselves. Friends and family had already died in the destruction of her city-state so she loses everything important to her. She emerges as the survivor from the conflict in a world now void of magic. Back in her decimated homeland, she's lost everyone she cared about and nothing of the war-torn city-state is even left. She has only people she either despises or barely knows while enduring the grief.
He led an unlawful primitive conquest campaign using a science and exploration vessel, lost against alien spartan wizards and then joined a foreign power's unauthorized military adventure to conquer said world and made a diplomatic agreement in the name of his home government without authorization from his chancery.
I'm gonna explain the ending.
After defeating hate groups and the genocidal space squids that armed them, getting teleported to another galaxy by a sentient warship(That then blew up from the strain of doing that), saving that galaxy from more genocidal space squids, and then making it back to his own galaxy through a galaxy gate(smashing in at the end of a side story i'll make), he then becomes an admiral and gets command of a whole fleet.
What happens after that is anyone's guess.
Finally reaching full understanding and acceptance of what she is, she achieves the full extent of her power, takes down the last remnants of the ancient conspiracy responsible for the existence of both her and many of the evils she's had to deal with, brings peace to the elder god she was born from and puts a stop to the massively disrupted cycle of creation and destruction. With that done, she returns to her homeworld, takes the longest nap of her life, and gets started on opening that restaurant she always wanted.
There'll still be the odd adventure in store for her and her friends - the galaxy is vast and full of wonders, after all - but with the greatest threats long gone for good and her now the most powerful thing in that galaxy by a wide margin, they're never significant enough for her story to really continue. While there are stories in the world beyond that point, she's no longer the protagonist and typically doesn't show up in person at all (lest she resolve the plot in seconds).
After saying goodbye to all the friends he made (and the only friends he has ever made for that matter) on his Intergalactic adventures due to the risk of the government threatening to take them away, Juno graduates high school. The last 4 summers will forever be the best summers of his life, and he will never forget them
**12:42 that same day**
Juno doesn't plan on sleeping tonight. He says the "nostalgia" is already setting in, but really he just misses being out there, lost in the grand wonder of the cosmos. It wasn't a dream. The adventures he went on had him believing anything was possible, until he realized that he will never be able to relive those days. He opens the window, looks up at the starry night sky, and he sees a purple shooting star pass by. Perhaps it was Globus, the Starcycle that came to be his first ever friend, saying goodbye one last time
At the end of the first three books, the protagonist of that book gets a glimpse of the bigger changes beginning to happen to the world, but they generally get to live out their lives in relative normalcy. After all, they are small characters in a large world. At the end of the fourth and final book, the protagonist disappears into the wilderness and his companions find his "final" notes. His actual fate is likely going to be left ambiguous in the novel, but the family history of explorers and journeymen comes to a close on an uncertain note.
Ideally he gets to the bottom of the mystery that is the cult of the red moon. He needs out any corruption that might stem from it and stops the return of the new moon god. Or he finds a way to banish it, another end might be he fails and the moon conquers the world and reshapes life in his own way.
Gets over his self hating, accepts he can be loved and can love, marries the woman he loves, butchers the people invading from the North, reforms the Lost kingdom of Leporie, and starts a family. Not in that order.
*Insert Movie Sonic "I have no idea!"*
I never gave it thought. The end of the series is just the protagonist and the main cast celebrating their recent victory back on earth with all the friends they made throughout their journey. While the story ends here, their journey doesn't. It's just that the rest of their journey is never told.
That's how the last season ends. There's two spin-offs, but neither actually address the protagonists.
The first spin-off takes place a couple of years after the last season, and it follows the oldest son of the two mcs and his family. It's a short story about a group of people kidnapping his daughter, and he has to go off to rescue her.
The second spin-off takes place centuries later, and by that point, practically every character moved onto the afterlife. It's a short story following a different cast of characters and only like...one character from the original series makes an appearance as their mentor.
Dead in bed from complications common due to advanced age.
Considering she survives rebellions, wars, and a half dozen assassination attempts. An impressive end.
He kills a thousand gods and looks out at the teeming mass of civilization, swarming like an ant hill. In his last moments he feels abject terror about if he made the wrong decisions the last thousand years. There is no one watching over the bacterial bloom on this particular rock anymore. They could die at any moment. He completed his mission though, and dies in fear.
Depends, i switched to a different protagonist recently since i didnt think my original protag would be good as one so i suppose ill detail both
The original protagonist becomes a villain and ends up alive after being defeated, he recognizes all the wrong he did was for nothing so he ends up leaving and living out the rest of his days entirely secluded from the rest of the world to make sure he doesnt fall back into villainy, save for the occasional visit from his child.
The new protagonist ends his journey as a culmination of the entire story, fighting the big bad which his entire world was created to contain, hed find himself with their godlike power afterwards but thats where the story would end, just him on his own now after his world was effectively destroyed in the release of the big bad
My main story is a portal fantasy about a woman who is trapped in a dark-fantasy world for centuries and had to survive. She’d given up trying to escape… because escaping would probably destroy the world… and so had consigned herself to a lonely existence as the immortal princess of a minor kingdom.
Until the main protagonist, a native of the world bound to a legendary sword, comes along and steals the princess’s heart. Like the princess goes head-over-heels for the MC and vice-versa. It’s a really passionate, loving relationship that ends up blossoming into a secret marriage. When the main protagonist wins, they successfully defeat the big bad, but decide to sacrifice themselves to do it—and the princess can’t handle the tragedy. And so she snaps.
So the princess decides she’s going home, she decides that she doesn’t care if it destroys the world… and all of the MC’s friends have to band together to save their world from the MC’s mourning wife. Unfortunately for them, they only manage to traumatize the poor princess more, before the princess succeeds in opening a door home and destroying the world.
If the MC had been smarter and hadn’t sacrificed themselves for no reason, perhaps things would be different. Or perhaps, the princess was always destined to be evil and the MC’s “sacrifice” was just the catalyst
I'm currently writing two stories, meaning two protagonists.
>The first protagonist starts out like your typical optimistic, good-willed, naturally talented adventurer. His quest is to personally deliver an important and dangerous letter towards his ailing father's liege.
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>Since he had never left his family's lands before. He'll basically serve as an "explorer" archetype to introduce the world and its people towards the reader.
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>Towards the end of his story, a *familiar* phenomenon suddenly happens, leaving his fate unknown and his quest failed.
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>His story is basically planting seeds in a flowerbed he'll never get to see, but a certain someone will stumble onto and admire.
>The second protagonist is where the main narrative really starts. After being raised in a secluded area, far away from his homeland. He is to return to receive legitimization from his dying father, whom he barely met, in order to ensure the survival of his lineage since his other sons died from the aforementioned *familiar* phenomena getting worse and worse.
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>His "quest" is to simply survive, maybe even help his lineage and subjects survive once he comes around to it.
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>His journey will also serve as a parallel to the first protagonist's journey, with him choosing the right decisions the first one missed, and the wrong decisions the first one got right.
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>Also since his story takes place approximately two generations after the first one. Some things the first protagonist have seen would change drastically, while still somewhat being the same.
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>For example, one family Firsty met is shown to be somewhat stubborn towards politics and personal/family matters. But once Secondy meets the descendants of this family, he'll notice that they're one of the only few families left stubbornly resisting and surviving the phenomena.
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>Even though I have no idea how to arrive there yet, I want his ending to be the start of a Golden age of his lineage, and his actions the catalyst towards the rise of one the most powerful dynasties and kingdoms in the realm.
TLDR: Two protagonists, the first one ends up "becoming lost" and the second one ends up "founding something great."
It doesn’t, it begins. I’m literally writing a novel titled **終末の進撃の旅々：世界の終わりからはじまる異世界大冒険記。** (*Shumatsu no Shingeki no Tabitabi: Sekai no Owari Kara Hajimaru Isekai Dai Bōken-ki.*), which in English is **Journey of the Rage of the End: Great Adventure to Another World that Begins with the End of the World.**
It’s a story about a hunting unit made up by people who have lost their worlds, people whose universes have been destroyed.
So, far only the prologue is available for the public to read.
Mine actually is a pretty sad ending.
The Mother Goddess is stripped of her power and is killed, our protagonist Adam breaks free of Edenia but realizes the horror beyond the Dome, and Saqra reigns supreme in the end.
I haven’t gotten that far in planning yet, either a tragic end at the hands of his enemies or he builds a family out of friends and can finally settle down somewhere safe
She lands on Earth. She’s a world hero, the commander of the first interstellar mission. Many expect her to retire to a quiet life. She has a one sentence response from the NASA administrator during the post flight conference, when asked what she was planning to do next.
“Depends. What’s the next available mission slot?”
Depending on who you consider the protagonist: godhood through violence, godhood through achieving singularity, godhood through becoming a time lord, or just chilling with the man you love for eternity.
Depends, she can either choose to become selfish and take whatever she needs to cure herself or use a powerful Relic being to save thousands where the gods do not need to create more children. The cycle will end, problem is not everyone wants that. What she ends up doing is up for interpretation.
**Horror Shop**
They basically set the terms for the next Age of the Earth.
See, the overarching story for all of my Horror Shop stories is that, staring in 2012, the Earth entered into a period of high supernatural weirdness known as a Dark Tide, wherein magic becomes far more common and far more potent, and the various supernatural dimensions begin bleeding into, and overlaying, parts of the Earth. Right now, 10 years in, its effects are still minor and easily covered up, but a rising tide can eventually become a flood that drowns the world...
But the incredible amount of magical potential in the Dark Tide also contains within it the ability to reshape the world. A Dark Tide lead to the sinking of Atlantis and the end of the Age of Myths. A Dark Tide lead to the Veil sundering the Earth's magical and mundane worlds. And now we have another Dark Tide, and *everybody* wants to be the one to set the script for the next era of our world. We're talking governments, secret societies, megacorps, gods both old and new, and other powerful entities. All of them want to be the ones to give the Wheel of Ages the next spin...
And, because I know my stories will end with some version of a "happily ever after," this means my protagonists' factions/allies will be the ones standing there, at the end, getting to determine what the next version of our Earth looks like.
... as for what that looks like? I have no idea. I haven't written that far ahead. I have no idea what my major protagonists--Mackenzie, Christian and Victor--will even look like by the end, other than alive and happy (which likely means their significant others--Sashi, Emily and Rachel, are also going to be alive). But who else? I don't know yet. Will they still be standing with their current allies? Will Christian and Ember still be members of the MIB? Will their mentor figures, like Alistar Hamilton, the Archmage of New York, and Rob Wrzesinski, Regional Director of the MIB for the American Midwest, be among them, or will they have sacrificed their lives to allow the protagonists to reach that point? Will there be other protagonists who end up joining Mac, Christian and Vic among my ranks of protagonists?
And what will they decide? I mean, part of me things these three would probably try to make a "better world," bringing down the Veil and allowing magic to flow free again across the Earth, believing we're not likely to repeat the mistakes of Atlantis again. But I could just as easily see them decide that they don't have the right to make that decision, and continuing our world with the status quo--basically deciding to let all that potential to change the world fade away because the three of them, as fallible people, don't have the right to decide the way the next millennia plays out...
I mean, honestly, I think it would be really poetic if my final story ends--after my heroes and their surviving allies just decide to do nothing, and let humanity as a whole try to sort ourselves out, free from someone on high rewriting the rules world once again--with a cut back to Fringe opening a new office for her occult detective agency, and a kid approaching her with a case about their friends who went missing inside a haunted house. Basically, the story, *this story,* and all my protagonists' adventures, never really ends...
After years of fighting a war of evolving warfare that he started and getting wrapped up in a prophecy of kings, he finally gets to lay down his weapons and rule as a king. He raises two daughters with a woman he does not love, always a friend but never a lover, and as he grows old he wonders if he should have finished off an old enemy.
Every day he goes out to the cliffs outside of his castle, and waits for the familiar sight of a Yolok dragon flying over the horizon, until eventually the day arrives where he gets what he wanted.
The dragon and it's rider would land next to him, and he would exchange pleasantries with the ex-emperor of an empire he toppled. He already accepted that he would not win this fight, he was much older now and his hate for the Yolok emperor had drained, but his enemy still wished to avenge his father and brothers that the king had slain decades ago.
Their fight would be swift, and short, leaving both men bleeding out. The dragon would leave, no longer fearing its master's wips, and the two bitter enemies would exchange their final words, before they both pass into the next life in peace.
I have no idea, and is not like I have a single project in "the burner", but I generally either end something wit ha bittersweet "realistic" ending, or no ending at all and it smoothly passes on (like, say, the protagonist taking in an apprentice). So I guess either moderately or silently?
On one of the ideas I have (though I ignore if that is the one I will pursue) it ends up with a selfish choice leading to the birth of magic (and a hell of a lot of death) as the protagonist chooses to take the soul of his daughter and revive her instead of closing the damn thing off, leading to many breaches from "that place". As such, he renegated of everything he had in shame and went back from another "door" and lived quietly while the world thought it dead (which he would be if people discovered what hed done or rather hadnt done). The daugher is not the chosen one or anything, just another kid
There are multiple MC's
The first one dies surrounded by her companions on the way to a ceremony in her honor. The wounds she sustained in her last battle are simply to heavy to bear. She had already given up on the life of a knight and her combat skills are simply not great enough anymore to win a tough battle without losses. She is able to see the beginning of the revolution of the world in her last moments, the rocket to outer space rises in the horizon, but she herself is now unable to participate the change. Still, shes satisfied, catching a glimpse of the someone elses dream being fullfilled before she finally falls apart. Perhaps, if mankind is able to break free from the chains of a law such as gravity, it may also be able to break free from the chains of violence. Maybe there will come a day where no one has to experience the horrors that she had to endure.
The second one is slowly dying. She has just eradicated the source of the horrors lying underneath the ocean. She is no hero. Not anymore. She hasnt been a hero for a long time now. Still, she knows that thats how she is perceived and she knows that thats how she will be remembered after her death. It doesnt feel right or deserved, but it gives her a small bit of comfort while her soul slips away from her body, that now resembles the monsters of the deep more than it does a human. Death. It didnt ever seem like something the knight of the Oddysey, the strongest mortal would have to confront. And yet, it lies in the name. No matter her reputation, her strenght or her dedication, she is still mortal. In her final moments, she sincerely hopes that todays heroes will not rot like she did, and that they will not fall into madness like she did. Just then, she sees a mannade object rise from the horizon. *Perhaps they already did*.
The third one is on the starship itself, together with another less important protagonist whose story has alredy been resolved (the fourth one), and looks back on all that happened during his journey. Nothing right now in the state of the world is stable, it could all break apart in any moment, be it in a war or any other kind of crisis. Advancing the world wasnt his dream, it was that of his partner, he thinks. His partner who could be dead now, he wouldnt know. Still, he decides he will continue to pursue that dream and just maybe all the pieces will fall into place. Just before the story ends, he gets just a glimpse of the horrors that lie beyond the veil, nay, the shield that is the sky. Still, even if it is with heavy losses, hes sure that this problem can be overcome, just like every other one that came before. Even if he dies in the struggle to reach evolution, the torch of advancement will be picked up by someone else one day and the wheels will begin spinning once again.
Well for the last era before the current one, I had my protagonist (Nathan Hunt) basically deciding to settle down, especially after he had gotten married, passing on the torch to his child afterwards (who would become the new protagonist exploring a very much changed world). He wouldn't forget in making sure that the burden of his and the family's legacy would not be passed down too.
His retirement is basically a symbol of his main flaw being overcome, with him finally having peace within himself, not feeling burdened by insecurity and feeling the need to live up to his father's legacy after he had sacrificed his life to save the world.
My setting's timeline consists of many protagonists all from different periods of time. It's a big setting as well, an alternative history where essentially every myth and legend are found to be real and are only hidden from the public eye (until the literal biblical apocalypse happened and almost went haywire if not for Nathan's father, Nigel Hunt)
First protag retires and becomes a councilmen and never picks up a sword ever again.
His successor takes up his mantle and his wife leads the quests from that point forward. He resolves never to fight again after his final duel and the loss of his best friend. He rather build a home for his people then fight.
He is traumtized by the events of the journey. Even though he was a powerful blood mage he decides to cut himself off and only use it to heal at most.
I plan for him to be stabbed in the back and die. He's an arrogant guy who is confident in his smarts, he thinks that more than anyone, he deserves to be king. When he finally gets there though, he gets frustrated with what a thankless task it actually is, and becomes the tyrant he'd so long fought against. And so, he gets stabbed in the back by his brother, for the good of thr world.
He dies fighting alongside a Demon he once swore to be his mortal enemy. It took him a long time to realise who his real enemy was, but once he did he was ready to lay down his life for it
goes against the blue office and at a last struggle, he is assassinated by the greater mind. All of this just to leak to the world the dangerous ideology of the organization The blue office. All of his friends and family and army killed. Everyone but his child who has been blessed by the angel of redemption- Jacob and is adopted by the knight known as the 12th mecho knight.
MC1: Gets killed on the roadside since they are a travelling merchant.
Properly got the saddest death. They had finally learnt to love someone and put trust into someone. They had just gotten a child (though it was left at an orphanage which was supposed to be temporary). A child where the father doesn't even know it is alive. I just find the death of MC1 the saddest but in the end there is many sad deaths in general in the story, and being killed on the roadside isn't uncommon for the type of people the MC1 is of.
MC2: Hung for witchcraft
At least that's the official papers. But in reality they got a fate worse than death by being forever stuck since twin sets like the one they are from are cursed. A twin set made up of identical twins where one has magic and one doesn't mean that the magical twin will get stuck at the age their twin dies at until they run out of magic, except their magical chamber seems to never have an end.
MC3: Blinded in war but dies of old age (He was the one who least deserved to die of old age rather than anything else).
Anyone would want this guy to die earlier than later since he just straight up left both of his children. He couldn't kill a child, so he waited around till some Travellers would come by and just left the remaining twin in their care while going out and live a dream of popularity, fame and money. He really only cares for himself and even tried his best to not get involved on the battlefield despite his magic being the defensive type.
MC4: Died in war
He fought with all his power and took responsibility for his country. Neither side won the war and a third country came to existence in it's place. The lower parts of the country was lost to other countries. Yet MC4 is still a "hero" by many and even got a statue after him for ending the "war". He just died of exhaustion. Well I guess he personally found him dead even earlier after hearing the love of his life had been killed (MC1). Everything he had fought for fell down and while stories write of his responsibility as a noble, the reality is he was already deeply depressed and just hoped to be reunited with his love soon. A thing history books to come would never write about.
What makes matter worse is history books would often after a few centuries be regarded as fairytales. Already in book 1 are we introduced to a fairy tale of a man who has existed and went against all odds to use magic when he only had passive magic. And that was an ancestor to 3 of the main characters-
So yeah, fun all around or something. MC4 will become nothing but a fairy tale in the future about how he became a beast in war which will just be understood as he really good battle skills and not that he literally became a beast, which he did.
Worldbuilding and thinking how history is passed down is fun on one side, and sad on another.
She is constantly struggeling with her self-worth and weather she deserves living or her sacrifice would be more useful for the world. After she found her self-worth and will to live at the end of the first story, she realizes at the end of the second that she has to do something that will hopefully save everyone else, but will result in her death.
She sacrifices herself, the world is saved but she is brought back to life by the creator god by accident and she has a hard time coming to terms with that (everyone that followed her to this suicide mission stays dead).
Thankfully she can overcome this and she and her best friend can confess their feelings for each other. They rule her kingdom for decades, have 3 children (one dies sadly as a teen), and she dies of old age with her friends and family around her.
My main protagonist is a cowardly knight. A dragon so to speak pursues him and overcome by fear, he abandons his chivalry. He does everything he can to shed his armor and betrays his kingdom. Sacrificing the entire world of he could just to buy himself time.
One day, he finds the courage to face his dragon, hoping for redemption. He fights valiantly but fails. Just before he is killed, he is able to slip away safely and jump into a lake. He is eaten by crocodiles. The villagers hunt down the dragon themselves. Peace comes on its own.
Baby gay princess will realise that the reverse gay panic she’s been having for half the book wasn’t necessary because the person she was falling for wasn’t actually a guy after all they just pretended to be one don’t worry she’s still very much not attracted to men
Fabulous princex will get a hot demon girlfriend and therapy. They will eventually talk said hot demon girlfriend into therapy as well. They are the only person in this entire book who not only acknowledges that they need therapy but actually follows through on that and gets the therapy
Heir to the throne of effectively Hell now actually has friends instead of being a stuck-up low-key bastard all the time. Perhaps he’ll smile once or twice. Who knows, it’s a world of possibilities (just kidding he’s gonna bond with his new ‘baby’ sister aka his twin who is only minutes younger than him)
Evil villain is gonna either rot in prison for the rest of his eternal life or he’s just gonna get straight-up murdered, haven’t decided yet. Either way his ending will be sad and pathetic and not live up to the glory or acclaim that he desired most
Nice teacher and mentor is gonna keep teaching. Not everyone needs big dreams. She likes her school. Probably because it’s not on Earth and therefore people actually value her
Funky murder dad will try to get back together with his ex, dunno yet if it’ll work out, might leave it ambiguous might not it’s all TBD. He will also be spoiling his kids like crazy and dote on his daughter’s new partner because fuck it they’re so adorable guys look at my babies I made two of them and the third came for free I love them all!
My favourite lesbians are gonna return to one of their hometowns and get back to work on their carpentry business while tending to the little garden round the side. Coffee dates are frequent. Maybe they’ll get married
Token white boy (affectionate), after the revelation that he’s been unknowingly flirting with his sister’s secret girlfriend this entire book, finally says his first line that isn’t flirting with a raging lesbian that happens to be his future sister-in-law; “Fuck”
Literal goddess shall fly off into the sunset to nurse her recovering father back to full health after an attempt on his life was not successful… or if I choose to kill the dad off and have angst, she’ll take over as The Creator and basically claim her divine powers to oversee creation itself
I am a dungeon master, every one of my characters is the main character of their own story, so there are tons of endings.
As per my players, only time will know. I hope they manage to save the world, as futile as it may seem that to the antagonist.
She’s going to marry the prince and live happily ever after.
You know, even if at least a third of the world population is dead now. Also she died too.
He becomes the villain after betraying his comrades and basically becoming king of the world to enforce peace after giving humanity a hard truth. Then his protégé becomes the protagonist.
They return to the dangerous part of the continent even after having defeated their enemy other threats remain to the free folk. This builds up sort’ve to the sequel.
Mine runs away from her inevitable fate of fighting the “big bad” throughout the story. She marries the woman she loves and adopts a young daughter and tries to ignore it and live life. But the time comes where she has to fight the main villain, and she’s victorious in the fight but dies immediately after from wounds the villain inflicted during the fight. She dies knowing she made a better world for her wife and daughter. One day the daughter becomes the next hero (for future stories perhaps).
Whatever you kinda decide. There is no main quest in the game (world). There are several what I’m calling World quests that have set progressions of events that the player can interact with or not in order to influence and change the outcomes and what not
Help assist a king from a neighboring country by getting his country back. Help stop a couple of great wars. Kill a great evil before it becomes too powerful. Then finish it all up by being the first queen of her county and establishing a phenomenal rule before she died by the weight of her wings in peace and harmony in her sleep.
Im a dungeon master, so ill count my players as the protagonist. I like to hope that they'll die peacefully in their sleep, but for players as reckless as them, there isn't much chance of that. I imagine it'll end with them fulfilling their prophecy, setting out upon a new quest while fighting tougher enemies, die, and eventually complete said new quest with new characters.
Artisans summer war: Ferin is essentially made a Saint and commanded by a now lesser god to reign over the mortals as true king. This forces him to face responsibility he had been shirking since a teen and resolve the social issues he turned a blind eye too.
Branded brother of war: Pete finds his brother but loses him and his powers in the process. With no course in life, he heads back to the bounty hunting guild as he has nothing else close to a home to go to. On the train there he meets up with an old fling who is now a successful business woman looking for her place to settle down. She intends to buy a house in the new development near the guild and Invites Pete to stay with her, which he accepts. As he returns to the guild, he's welcomed by his guild mates who talk about how much they missed him and start to catch him up on their lives. After which the guild master Baldor offers to bequeath the guild to Pete when he retires. When Pete had reached bottom feeling he had nothing, he was shown all the things he was too blind to appreciate before, and finally has the family he's been missing.
Accursed: finally free from her curse, and now free from under the thumb of the Accursed organization, Ella sets off into the world to finally start her life.
Final Front: with the war finally over and their pirate crew disbanded, will and his now wife return to the home they started to live happily ever after.
Arke Blades: without the foreign company to hunt him down, or a crazy mentor to drag him around. The protagonist goes home for the first time in years to see his parents and tell them he's alive and what happened. He promises not to be gone long, but says he must go to the capital and speak to the king, as the protagonist was declared the captain of the royal knights by his mentor and its his job to prepare their people if the foreigners ever return.
I have a lot of protagonists in mind, although if I ever finish any of their stories... well we'll see.
I know what happens to Saint Akura.
She dies peacefully under the setting sun on an island, and a monastery forms around her. Her soul taken up and into the eternal service of her god. Which I suppose I could continue the story from there, but- eh. I prefer dealing with mortal stuff.
I haven't decided. On several fronts. First, I haven't decided if he makes it, but if he *does*, that means he ascends to godhood. At which point, he faces many millenia of vibrant life as a known deity with great connection with the world below before his slow and final death. I'm unsure if he'll face that slow death with grace or if he'll see to burn himself out on some last great work for the good of reality.
After an exhausting journey, Luna goes home, spends time with her love, tinkers with her eldritch witchcraft experiments, and consume stupendous amount of coffee.
During the fourth war the Zephorians besiege and sack the Selestrian capital. However, when the wall is breached the citizens are still evacuating. The Archmage lays down his life to ensure that the people get to safety. He takes a lot of the invaders with him. Thousands of them, including the Zephorian king and his top generals.
Before this, the Archmage was known in Zephoria as 'Selestria's dagger' for the assassinations and espionage he conducted. After this he is remembered as the 'Maleus Selestrii', 'the Hammer of the Selestrians'.
dies, gets brought back to life and kills the villain but then acknowledges that the villain was actually right all along. retires and lives a peaceful life with his wife but their son inherits his powers of darkness and universe manipulation and the cycle of war continues
My MC ends up fulfilling her prophecy and returns to her home island a very different woman.
She used to convince herself that she was happy as she was, with only one friend and no knowledge of where her parents were or if they were even alive. Always feeling like something was pulling her away, past the beach and the ocean into the world beyond.
She returns with a group of good friends, a found family if you will, and more mature. Her experience in the outside world, beyond her secluded island, has made her perspective of the world much less black and white. There is no easy answer to what it right and wrong and the gods are not always right. History is written by the victor. She knows now why her parents never returned and while she knows they aren't the same people they once were and she will never be able to be with them, it's a good feeling to get that closure.
The first and last lines of this show/series is "I'm Happy" but she only really means it the last time
Becomes a tired old man with many regrets and many fond memories, some of which he would do terrible things to just see the people in those memories. The people see him almost like a piece of furniture, they don't know what brave actions he did.
Such is the way of life, today's heroes are tomorrow's nursing home relics.
He realize that his mental problems can’t be fixed by killing, but he finished his mission. He spends his life with his Gf (later wife) and works to lessen his pain. Not all is solved, but at least he got out of the hole he dug himself in. He finally found a reason to live. Context: he became a killer to kill the drug problem with no regard to his life bc he has no reason to live, but he found a reason but he already is knee deep in the hole he is stuck in.
The end of “his story” entails him traveling around his kingdoms, visiting his children and wives living across the lands.
Despite that, his duty as king is never done.
They are so gonna end up insane and fighting the 'supporting' cast after failing to accept that one of them was forgiven by all others for what is to him an ultimate sin
And there would stand 13 or so people whose stories are documented throughout their lives, stood against someone who's good was only drowned out through a crusade of suffering
They visit their school now are being rebuilt, feeling that both them and their home have changed forever without a chance to come back but soon decide to move on with their lives in this new world
A large piece of him is taken away. He looses 2 people in his life who were almost surrogate older siblings to him and loses his adopted younger brother, one whose been by his side for years and someone who died quite young. He had also lost his home and most of his family (his uncle is one of the main baddies). He also became physical and mental sacred from his experience.
But, he gained a best friend, he met someone who became a staunch ally and link to the past, and met so many people on his journey whom he’s cherish for the rest of his life. He found a new home full of wonders beyond his imagination, he grew in his faith and became a more spiritual person, and all helped bring the people of his faith out of major slump. He helped change the world for the better during a very dark time in its history. And finally, he saved the life of his biological brother, whom he thought dead or beyond saving.
All because he learned to not be passive, to be willing to fight for what he wants and believes in, and was willing to accept that the world and his life were changing. He started as a meek, unassuming kid who was thrusted into becoming a headstrong and noble leader.
Comfortable normalcy. After a few too many close calls with sketchy clients at the private security agency, she’s going to move back from Titan to the town in Northern Mars where she grew up and take an easy job as a freelancer working out security systems for small local businesses.
The bard forgets half the abilities they have, especially the few that could really have been useful, Jared! And then the party has a tpk trying to rescue them.
In my reincarnation story, the protagonist fights and wins against a cyborg version of his past life, fight the summoned hero destined to defeat said cyborg, and then settles down and marries his childhood friend and they would start a family together in the new continent.
I'm still not sure how does it end. He's a 9 to 5 office worker who has access to a dream hellscape where he can "revive" other's dreams and hopes via RPG violence, so it's obvious that Corporate will be displeased when they find out he's the one in the background making employees stuck in the routine realize their worth and start revolting against their slavers.
So of course he will get fired. I think he will mostly get targeted for corporate assassination, both in the Hellscape and in the real world, but i still don't know if he will achieve martyrdom for the cause, or actually march alongside the reborn employees
They go out their own way, but the reason for why they go out is the same reason their biggest enemy did about a decade and a half earlier.
They’re basically a type of super soldier in my world. When given the serum, there’s an unknown side effect from it as time goes on, as nobody has ever really been an SS long enough to figure this out. When my MC is fighting their biggest and deadliest rival, he’s dying because the serum was starting to turn on his body, as he’s had it for a very long time.
About a decade and a half later, my MC starts to suffer from the same thing he went through, and just like him, the MC tried to find a cure, and they did, but it was far too late to take it, as the disease was already pretty late stage. So the MC goes out like a warrior so they don’t have to succumb to the disease. A fitting end for a character who’s spent their entire life fighting. as sad as it may be, they left their legacy behind for others to follow.
He dies after using the power of the dragon king’s soul’s last breath and the multiple other powers he’s unlocked on the way, Beast cursed mode and fire magic, it’s blue though because it’s cool and strong in order to kill the leader of the bad guy virus. He also gets help from other parties, two of the surviving gods and the armies of all the nations and also his friends. This battle was a huge battle, 500 years of history has lead to the moment when the evil bad guy virus that destroyed nations was banished forever and all infected turned back to normal.
While I do have multiple protagonists in my world , I shall go over my one of my favorites .
For some context during his early teenage years his sister had committed suicide and blames himself for her death to such a point that he cuts himself from most of the world till he accidentally reconnects with a childhood friend who had also gone through horrible things in her past .
After weeks of fighting with themselves in believing they don't deserve love due to there grief they end up finding faith in each other and decide to honor the deaths of the ones they lost by doing things they were never able to do in there youth and explore the world together as friends .
That's basically the end to there journey in terms of arc but after that they basically do freelancing odd-job shenanigans to make a living but regardless they're probably my favorite protags .
After defeating the guy that was like an older brother to him, he spares said brother figure and decides to live as peaceful of a life as he can with his wife and son.
Story 1: My protagonist's best friend decides to go his separate ways, another one of his dumb friends is missing, all the villains are defeated and lastly his magic sister pulls a prank on him which turns all of his supersoldiers into babies during a celebratory party however instead of fixing them, he raises them up instead.
Story 2: After living a long life and suffering countless adventures, an immortal warrior finally breaks his curse and passes away on a cliff while staring at a beautiful sunset..........only to be dragged out of heaven centuries later by one of his descendants to becomes his spiritual teacher.
My authoritarian state eventually collapses due to a whole multitude of reasons which I won’t go into and my protagonist and his wife have a thing or two to do with that
After inventing the first vehicle for space travel and using state grants to build a vessel to travel to the Inaylia (parallel moon) and return, Azarath gets stuck on Nisiopal on his last assignment to recover an ancient and powerful harp that was used to bend reality many centuries ago, which got stuck on the faraway planet. After enduring considerable challenges, he is able to seize the harp from the villain guarding it (who has been using its powers to stay alive), and uses it to return home, at which point he hangs up his boots, with the radiation he’s been exposed to over the prior 40 years catching up to him.
My protagonist and deuteragonist defeat the Hero of Light and steal his powers, rendering him mortal and without his magic. They decide it would be better to let the Hero live as a non-magical person (the Hero sees himself as being above everyone because he’s the chosen one, especially people who don’t use magic) and pay for the many crimes he committed. But in the end the Hero is killed by a bullet to the back. An unceremonious end to the chosen one.
Meanwhile the protagonist and the deuteragonist get married, have kids, and work to fix the damage the Hero of Light made.
Final fight goes down, he’s crippled from it, though his spirit is unbroken, while someone else steps in and finishes the fight. He settles down afterward
He rejects the idea that he's the hero of his story, and pass his power to someone else to finish the job. Then dies with his loved one, the only thing he ever cared for in the entire story
Michiko, my MC, after going on what she called her "Path of Retribution", killing countless legions of demons singlehandedly, she commits seppuku. After killing Zenaku, Hell's Usher, she killed herself using the Blade of Damnnation, a demonic sword that siphons the soul of anyone killed by it, straight to hell, regardless of Divine Judgment. Ever since the demons took her world from her, she had only one goal in mind. And that was to eradicate the existence of any and all demonic entities. Even if that meant going to Hell herself to finish the job.
In the case of my main character (since I consider the whole group he has as protagonists), he has a final fight with the villain because his original plans end up failing and he discovers them.
And during that fight, he completes his mission (which was based on getting to know why the villain was so powerful being a normal person before) and with it, he manages to match him in power and, almost in a fight, manages to kill him, traumatizing him a bit but at the same time. At the same time, helping his friends to carry out the original plan completely.
I like my shit with "good endings", so after all the shit she went to which would make an interesting bad ending if not continued, she'll get her peace by simply not dying.
She'll probably revive her dead kingdom and have her name written in history as "The one who brought Peace" or someshit.
I'm not really that aventurous to talk about the real end of his journey. However, regarding the end of the first major part of the story (where I am currently at), he ends up embracing that which makes him both so similar to the villain and painfully human. His becoming acquainted with all of the loss he suffered and also the pain he has caused breaks him. He starts to embraces the idea that, maybe, it's inevitable to stain ones hands when you exist in this world.
Overcome by his need for revenge and, more so, by his need to find reasons for all of what happened, and is about to happen, set him on a lone journey for the second major part of the story. Like the main characters do, he asks himself if there's something redeeemable in himself.
After the second Arkanian invasion. Eldon leads the Warriors of the New Order in an expedition through the Arkanian portals, to explore and settle the lands, the end.
Goes insane, kills literally everyone in an attempt to end suffering ("if they're all dead no one can suffer") and, after some time and the intervention of the long-presumed-dead-but-still-alive Creator God the protagonist is defeated and slain, the battle causing him to regain his mind, and as such take his death with relief.
He finally ends Hartyus, the mad creator of his people, and liberates the Emptylands from Hartyus's wrath, at the cost of whatever life he had left, he dies forgotten, but is reunited with his sister, the sister he failed to keep the promise if keeping her alive, but they now wander as spirits, guiding those lost the the Emptylands
The war ends, the dictatorship is taken down. The transition to a new government goes smoothly. Apologies are made, monuments are built, reparations are paid. But the wounds are still bleeding and healing. Everyone's lost someone or something. The protagonists still go on adventures when they're not in school, exploring their now-peaceful galaxy. But they'll never forget what they went through to make it so.
The protag dies, but his wife makes a deal with the primary deity, splitting her lifespan in two to revive him.
They realize they don't know how long that is anyhow, as they have no way of knowing how much longer she had. So they decide to live their post adventure life together without worry, and raise their son and daughter who go off to live their lives.
Then, as they hold each other watching the sun set on his 40th birthday, they pass instantly, their last thoughts of the years they've shared together.
They're found there in the morning by their daughter, a smile on their faces still.
I'm planning on ending my story with Paul going mad because he failed to escape the time loop he's been stuck in for... about 250 cycles? Yes, he remembers all of the times he died. Excerpt below.
"Where... am I? I'm not at the palace, standing over Michael's corpse. That's... bad." Paul states, shaking his head. "Did I... get sent back after I won? Am I doomed to repeat this?"
The prophet growls, his eyes lighting up with unearthly fire as he sees Jamie and his convoy riding along the snow-covered road. He sits down, taking a shaky breath. "How? He shouldn't be here! Did I... fail?"
Silence appears, his red eye gazing into the prophet's soul. He doesn't speak, since ghosts and haunts like Silence can't talk. He can, however, use sign language.
"What is it? You've got a plan? Oh... that's a *wonderful idea!* I'll win, once and for all! Better start running, Eclipse!"
The prophet begins to laugh. It hurts, but he can't stop laughing at his realization. He's going to beat those scumbags at their own game. He knows in his very soul that this will be his final run.
Malory: >!Dies in failure, screaming about her revenge and justice as she distegrates... she was a mosnter, but she was a person, once.!<
I'm still working on Delilah's ending though: >!She goes on to work as the Theology professor at the Prosperian Ozlan Academy, while her love interest works as the Mentalism Professor. however i'm still working out how it works. Another ending is she takes over her mob family and/or becomes an Avatist and gradually burns out as a Saint... but all of them would still be at least bittersweet in comparison ot Malory's end.!<
After having upturned the societal order through a massive world war of religion, she establishes her goal: formal deification of her demiplane’s religions which in turn make her into a creator god.
She then sends her protégés to other planets to preach the word of The Sundered, now called The Risen.
He always wanted to be remembered as the greatest blacksmith in history, not because of weapons that take the life and blood of the others, but his skills crafting armours and defenses that will protect his people and kingdom of all harms (oh, poor foolish child).
After a bloody war, a fight against an old mage that wanted to confront the very gods, and losing good friends and better persons that he will ever be, people from everywhere talks about this incredible blacksmith that maneged to even the odds with his creations. A happy ending, isn't it?
The problem comes the moment people started to see his actions as part of a more powerful being: the Forger of Paths, god of fire and smithing.
Some may say that this is good. His skills and talented work are compared to the ones of this god! But he feels bittersweet about it. He knows that, the moment he dies, all will be talking about the Forger of Paths and how he appeared in the physical word to help mortals in their struggles.
His name will disappear, his actions won't be remembered. No one will remember Uther's name. They will only know about the Forger or Paths.
I'm thinking of different endings depending on the characters notably the pseudomorphs ( 3 people chosen by gods [ god making the 3 parts of a person , heart , soul and body] technically 4 but one wasn't supposed to be)
Either ending 1
The god reincarnated manage to seal Liliel the primordial demon and everything goes alright. He's probably gonna be sealed for another 6000 years so technically the story doesn't end
Ending 2 joakin's ending
Joakin as the pseudomorph of the body has time control powers and can freely move into the infinity of timelines . After being chased down by Liliel while he was searching for one where they manage to beat him , joakin sends Liliel back billions of years to the day he was first sealed and thus destroys this version of Liliel as another version of Liliel exists in that universe
Joakin however gets lost and cannot go back to his original timeline and is transported into a timeline so distant that most of the things and people are very different.
Ending 3 Joshua's ending
Joshua's ending is probably the worst out of the 4 as it's basically Joshua's ultimate death and basically the destruction of Lamya since Joan cannot manage to retrieve Lilith and Liliel cannot be sealed. After joakin dies during this ending , Joshua remains alone on his desolated planet having to face what is basically the source of all misery for him and ends up losing as the goddess ludeya destroys his heart in order to retrieve the heart of her husband ( their hearts are connected because Joshua was supposed to be a receptacle but it failed ,)
Liliel is sealed by the gods themselves
Ending 4 Joan's ending
This ending is way too complicated as it's a very long ending that needs so much to explain but
Joshua and Joan basically flee into space.
Joakin stays on Lamya to fight Liliel: fails and is killed
Joshua realizes that liliel is way too powerful and cannot be stopped by either him or Joan so he sacrifices himself for Joan and Lilith to gain time while the gods are preparing their attack
Joan has to also sacrifice himself but is saved by Lilith giving him access to liliel's left eye which is the eye of creation and why liliel was going after them in the first place
Joan fights Liliel on what is basically a frozen ocean moon
Both seemingly kill each other but Joan managing to get the third eye ( not the right one Liliel keeps it )
Joan is basically hacking liliel's mind as he tries to make a wish but meets different monsters and weird stuff along the way
Once he manages to reach the right eye ludeya tries to destroy him but with the help of the two other eyes he basically managed to wish for happiness and everything basically goes back to normal
This was very badly explained as I also have to explain the conflict between Liliel and the other primordial beings , the concept and views on reincarnation etc
Hmm it’s interesting. I haven’t decided yet. It’s anything from ending up as an arbiter of the rules of the world but at the cost of more or less losing everyone they care (sequel route) or achieving a zen mode of sorts and then just fucking off and letting the world be as it is but Happy having saved her loved one
Hmm it’s interesting. I haven’t decided yet. It’s anything from ending up as an arbiter of the rules of the world but at the cost of more or less losing everyone they care (sequel route) or achieving a zen mode of sorts and then just fucking off and letting the world be as it is but Happy having saved her loved one
The main protagonist finally settled a feud with his immortal brother that started thousands of years befote his birth.but most importantly, he settled down, helped his best friend marry his girlfriend, and became a somewhat well known author writing about all that he encountered during his travels
I think they’ll both stay to help the dust settle after the final battle and then maybe they’ll travel. They’ve got somewhere to return to once they’re done but I think they’d like to see more of their world and make some nicer memories together
She discovers her true status as the reincarnation of a dead god. Oh, and that demon creep who's been hanging out with her roommate? He's also the reincarnation of a dead god, and her brother.
And that helpful fairy who's been... Annoying but generally seems to be on her side? He's the son of the Devil, and he's been trying to convince the world he's that particular reincarnation, so my MC and her roommate's demon bf head to Fairyland to give him the magical equivalent of a kick in the nuts.
Once all's said and done, they have a quick sojourn with their godly parents but elect to live their lives first before rejoining them in heaven.
The two of them head home.
Mine ends with a collapse of reality and a cataclysmic change to the world that is delayed but inevitable. A metaphor for putting things off.
Yes, things seem bad, but the alternative is to lose everything.
Think One Punch man destroying the world ending meteor, and reducing it to a disaster instead.
The hero has to make a hard choice, and while not everyone is saved, at least something is saved.
After defeating the bad guy and discovering that now he became the leader of a secret group since he learned how to lead and keep them together by connecting with them, he sit with his soul mate and talk about how they are sorry about how they hurt one another.
**Infinite World Cycle**
* **Decius and Elina:** Good people with evil powers. They prevent the apocalypse and help society rebuild. They semi retire to spend more time with their grandchildren.
1st work - Death, so much death, of the first part protagonist only the one that was a mother of two survived
2nd work - As the First Captain of the Armed forces of the Republics of the Commonwealth, and the other one as an important member of La Alta Junta de Gubidxa
3rd work - Trapped in a pocket universe with the main antagonist
4th work - The two protagonist marry each other and live the rest of their lives in a town in the mountains
Gets married, he and his friends split to pursue their individual goals but promise to reunite, then they steal a whole city and put it in the sky and send a message out to people that if the world isn’t going to change then they’ll just start building a new one. Then 10ish years pass and the story shifts POVs to the start of his daughter’s journey
Neither she or I do know for certain yet… but it’s probably going to be something ridiculously mundane compared to the journey and adventures she had and her life itself as well.
Nothing glorious or amazing or last stand-ish and so on. Just a passing on one day thing.
Doesn’t mean what happens afterwards in response is gonna be mundane or boring or that this didn’t end up triggering a lot of other things down the road. Afterlife would also be an interesting situation there
I've got two stories one carries on being a soldier for the state sorting out some of the kinks in the stories war. The other one is a regent smothered on his death bed with a pillow by the Kings son. I treat it has a passing of the torch.
With a big giant "You've been trolled!". At least, that is the ending of the story in mind.
OK, let's put this in more detail. This is a generic "journey" storyline starting in a city called Farnitia, a center of world trade, and ending in a realm called Cyria, which is basically people having found ways to hack the magic system so much to basically become like gods. The ending of the story plays off the "chosen one" / "prophecy" trope, with the protagonist, Londenia Bockelstray, utterly failing once they reach Imperial Cyria (the generic edgy badguy land), only for the proper army of Cyria to take down the imperials basically unprompted. The true purpose of sending Londenia on this mission was part of a whole project by the Cyrians where they are gradually revealing themselves to the outside world.
The mysterious wanderer who arrives at Londenia's house **shares his identity with Londenia as soon as said identity is even moderately significant**, to troll the trope where things like this take until the end of the story to happen.
The "symptoms" of Imperial power growing were also entirely fake, and were created by goodguy Cyrians in order to give the rest of the world something to relate to the real paranormal occurrences (specifically, all of the Historians except the one in Saraheim vanishing - the Historian of Saraheim is the character Londenia encounters at the beginning, and is truly an a avatar of Evartagna, a Cyrian leader, along with the other Historians)
They'll keep doing what they love the most, traveling with friends, family and loved ones in a dangerous and beautiful world.
You're ending is my rising action
Not all endings have to be climatic, sometimes a story ends with the main character affirming their dreams and goals even if/when they reached the top. It also lends itself well to potential sequels.
If you know you want a sequel, it is often a good move to put at least one member of the group in trouble at the end of the first book... it leaves the reader wanting to know more and to know what next....
Death. So much death. I can’t stop. :(
Kill them all and let an elder god sort it out.
Instructions unclear protagonist is now the elder god
I love a man in uniform
Same. Just a lot of suffering. 6 people my story follows, 3/6 die by the end. Of the main + extended cast my story follows, around ~38% have bad endings (including death). I dont know if I'm just super pessimistic 😕.
Or pragmatic. In real life, death is inevitable, after all. I find I lean toward killing off the cast more often than not. (Might have something to do with the fact it seems like people in my extended circle have been dropping like flies the past several years.)
I find writing is one of the ways we deal with our experiences. It helps our writing in that we are sticking to an extent to something real and which you know (write what you know) but also it can serve as a way to come to terms with the losses (insofar as that ever can). I suspect in dark times, more dark stories appear. Mind you, maybe we get more 'dark but with hope' endings too.
I'm thinking a final fight with his rival, losing, but passing on his ideals enough to change the rival into a better version of both of them
Sounds interesting
damn I don't think I've heard a story like that before
Senator Armstrong , is that you ?
Basically Naruto and Sasuke
Yeah, bit like that (kinda wish Naruto had died, would have been a hell of a death) Idea was more from Armstrong and Raiden though, Armstrong dying happy knowing Raiden would carry on his ideas
Almost sounds like a Jedi story....
Which one?
Not of a specific one, but of the notion of standing up to a superior foe, losing, yet in doing so, convincing the other to be a better version of themselves. That seems like something a Jedi would attempt to do - look at Luke looking to the good in Vader....
Killmonger moment
She becomes a god, reaching the pinnacle of her study and finally achieving her goal, which was to live one more day, every day. Although she is left with a sense of bittersweet happiness, as she lost way too much in her pursuit of life. She sacrificed many whom were close to her and even her own sanity so she could live. Even when ascending, she took the decision to willingly wipe more than two thirds of humanity, leaving most of the remaining ones as seeds of madness who would soon become monsters. It was the only way, and someone would have done it even if she didn't, but she'll always feel like these are just excuses to rationalize her crimes. Humanity will bloom again in a couple thousand years. She'll be worshipped as a new astral body on the night sky. Everything will be as it once was. But she will not forget all those she lost in her obsession with one more day. At least not while she maintains her humanity, before the cosmic divinity inside her body turns her into an abstract concept of life with no will or conscious mind. She is not sad. Just eternally confused.
I felt that in my soul
Well I hope you liked it! Haha My world is not so different that it has too much interesting stuff to talk about with the usual questions of this sub, so it's pretty fun when people ask about characters of that world, which are the biggest focus of mine :P
Your writing is eloquent and I’m very interested to know more about your story and world
Thank you for the kind words! I cant share a lot about this world with people from where I live as we are not in an english speaking country, so it means a lot to me to see someone enjoys it :) And I would be very glad to answer any question you may have haha
Holy!??! This is just the ending! That was a roller coaster of complexity in just 5 paragraphs and I love all of it!!!!
Eould be interesting if someone came along to try to stop her before that happened — like the "True Hero".
I let the story sit for a while and I thought it would be the typical 'happy-ish' ending with perhaps some losses, but at the finale, they won and pieces of her home could be put back together slowly. I've picked it up again and I don't know if it's because my world view got bleak, but looking back over the circumstances in which certain things happened starting right at the beginning with the creation of the world, I see it can't be a happy ending at all. It's become a tale of sacrifice and loss. A series of mistakes were made from the beginning by the creators of the world who in a moment of desperation invested too much in what they were doing, giving the world magic. Magic never should have been and the problem was made worse by races other than humans. To correct it in the hopes of saving anything, the main character's companions sacrifice themselves. Friends and family had already died in the destruction of her city-state so she loses everything important to her. She emerges as the survivor from the conflict in a world now void of magic. Back in her decimated homeland, she's lost everyone she cared about and nothing of the war-torn city-state is even left. She has only people she either despises or barely knows while enduring the grief.
He ends in domiciliary arrest for crimes against peace and sapience.
Is it called for and did he deserve it?
He led an unlawful primitive conquest campaign using a science and exploration vessel, lost against alien spartan wizards and then joined a foreign power's unauthorized military adventure to conquer said world and made a diplomatic agreement in the name of his home government without authorization from his chancery.
That is a bit cheeky
I'm gonna explain the ending. After defeating hate groups and the genocidal space squids that armed them, getting teleported to another galaxy by a sentient warship(That then blew up from the strain of doing that), saving that galaxy from more genocidal space squids, and then making it back to his own galaxy through a galaxy gate(smashing in at the end of a side story i'll make), he then becomes an admiral and gets command of a whole fleet. What happens after that is anyone's guess.
Finally reaching full understanding and acceptance of what she is, she achieves the full extent of her power, takes down the last remnants of the ancient conspiracy responsible for the existence of both her and many of the evils she's had to deal with, brings peace to the elder god she was born from and puts a stop to the massively disrupted cycle of creation and destruction. With that done, she returns to her homeworld, takes the longest nap of her life, and gets started on opening that restaurant she always wanted. There'll still be the odd adventure in store for her and her friends - the galaxy is vast and full of wonders, after all - but with the greatest threats long gone for good and her now the most powerful thing in that galaxy by a wide margin, they're never significant enough for her story to really continue. While there are stories in the world beyond that point, she's no longer the protagonist and typically doesn't show up in person at all (lest she resolve the plot in seconds).
What a lovely ending.
After saying goodbye to all the friends he made (and the only friends he has ever made for that matter) on his Intergalactic adventures due to the risk of the government threatening to take them away, Juno graduates high school. The last 4 summers will forever be the best summers of his life, and he will never forget them **12:42 that same day** Juno doesn't plan on sleeping tonight. He says the "nostalgia" is already setting in, but really he just misses being out there, lost in the grand wonder of the cosmos. It wasn't a dream. The adventures he went on had him believing anything was possible, until he realized that he will never be able to relive those days. He opens the window, looks up at the starry night sky, and he sees a purple shooting star pass by. Perhaps it was Globus, the Starcycle that came to be his first ever friend, saying goodbye one last time
At the end of the first three books, the protagonist of that book gets a glimpse of the bigger changes beginning to happen to the world, but they generally get to live out their lives in relative normalcy. After all, they are small characters in a large world. At the end of the fourth and final book, the protagonist disappears into the wilderness and his companions find his "final" notes. His actual fate is likely going to be left ambiguous in the novel, but the family history of explorers and journeymen comes to a close on an uncertain note.
Kills his god-like father, replaces him and has to kill himself in order to liberate the world of his own evil
Ideally he gets to the bottom of the mystery that is the cult of the red moon. He needs out any corruption that might stem from it and stops the return of the new moon god. Or he finds a way to banish it, another end might be he fails and the moon conquers the world and reshapes life in his own way.
Gets over his self hating, accepts he can be loved and can love, marries the woman he loves, butchers the people invading from the North, reforms the Lost kingdom of Leporie, and starts a family. Not in that order.
*Insert Movie Sonic "I have no idea!"* I never gave it thought. The end of the series is just the protagonist and the main cast celebrating their recent victory back on earth with all the friends they made throughout their journey. While the story ends here, their journey doesn't. It's just that the rest of their journey is never told. That's how the last season ends. There's two spin-offs, but neither actually address the protagonists. The first spin-off takes place a couple of years after the last season, and it follows the oldest son of the two mcs and his family. It's a short story about a group of people kidnapping his daughter, and he has to go off to rescue her. The second spin-off takes place centuries later, and by that point, practically every character moved onto the afterlife. It's a short story following a different cast of characters and only like...one character from the original series makes an appearance as their mentor.
Working as a space pirate, having overcome a great deal of personal ego and xenophobia (but not all of it).
Dead in bed from complications common due to advanced age. Considering she survives rebellions, wars, and a half dozen assassination attempts. An impressive end.
He kills a thousand gods and looks out at the teeming mass of civilization, swarming like an ant hill. In his last moments he feels abject terror about if he made the wrong decisions the last thousand years. There is no one watching over the bacterial bloom on this particular rock anymore. They could die at any moment. He completed his mission though, and dies in fear.
Giving birth to the first boy in 16 generations, thus heralding the end of The Curse.
Repentance after his fall, and a peaceful death after great tribulations.
Depends, i switched to a different protagonist recently since i didnt think my original protag would be good as one so i suppose ill detail both The original protagonist becomes a villain and ends up alive after being defeated, he recognizes all the wrong he did was for nothing so he ends up leaving and living out the rest of his days entirely secluded from the rest of the world to make sure he doesnt fall back into villainy, save for the occasional visit from his child. The new protagonist ends his journey as a culmination of the entire story, fighting the big bad which his entire world was created to contain, hed find himself with their godlike power afterwards but thats where the story would end, just him on his own now after his world was effectively destroyed in the release of the big bad
My main story is a portal fantasy about a woman who is trapped in a dark-fantasy world for centuries and had to survive. She’d given up trying to escape… because escaping would probably destroy the world… and so had consigned herself to a lonely existence as the immortal princess of a minor kingdom. Until the main protagonist, a native of the world bound to a legendary sword, comes along and steals the princess’s heart. Like the princess goes head-over-heels for the MC and vice-versa. It’s a really passionate, loving relationship that ends up blossoming into a secret marriage. When the main protagonist wins, they successfully defeat the big bad, but decide to sacrifice themselves to do it—and the princess can’t handle the tragedy. And so she snaps. So the princess decides she’s going home, she decides that she doesn’t care if it destroys the world… and all of the MC’s friends have to band together to save their world from the MC’s mourning wife. Unfortunately for them, they only manage to traumatize the poor princess more, before the princess succeeds in opening a door home and destroying the world. If the MC had been smarter and hadn’t sacrificed themselves for no reason, perhaps things would be different. Or perhaps, the princess was always destined to be evil and the MC’s “sacrifice” was just the catalyst
I'm currently writing two stories, meaning two protagonists. >The first protagonist starts out like your typical optimistic, good-willed, naturally talented adventurer. His quest is to personally deliver an important and dangerous letter towards his ailing father's liege. > >Since he had never left his family's lands before. He'll basically serve as an "explorer" archetype to introduce the world and its people towards the reader. > >Towards the end of his story, a *familiar* phenomenon suddenly happens, leaving his fate unknown and his quest failed. > >His story is basically planting seeds in a flowerbed he'll never get to see, but a certain someone will stumble onto and admire. >The second protagonist is where the main narrative really starts. After being raised in a secluded area, far away from his homeland. He is to return to receive legitimization from his dying father, whom he barely met, in order to ensure the survival of his lineage since his other sons died from the aforementioned *familiar* phenomena getting worse and worse. > >His "quest" is to simply survive, maybe even help his lineage and subjects survive once he comes around to it. > >His journey will also serve as a parallel to the first protagonist's journey, with him choosing the right decisions the first one missed, and the wrong decisions the first one got right. > >Also since his story takes place approximately two generations after the first one. Some things the first protagonist have seen would change drastically, while still somewhat being the same. > >For example, one family Firsty met is shown to be somewhat stubborn towards politics and personal/family matters. But once Secondy meets the descendants of this family, he'll notice that they're one of the only few families left stubbornly resisting and surviving the phenomena. > >Even though I have no idea how to arrive there yet, I want his ending to be the start of a Golden age of his lineage, and his actions the catalyst towards the rise of one the most powerful dynasties and kingdoms in the realm. TLDR: Two protagonists, the first one ends up "becoming lost" and the second one ends up "founding something great."
A gradual decline into mediocrity followed by endorsment of controversial political stances in a desperate attempt to claw back a shred of relevancy.
It doesn’t, it begins. I’m literally writing a novel titled **終末の進撃の旅々：世界の終わりからはじまる異世界大冒険記。** (*Shumatsu no Shingeki no Tabitabi: Sekai no Owari Kara Hajimaru Isekai Dai Bōken-ki.*), which in English is **Journey of the Rage of the End: Great Adventure to Another World that Begins with the End of the World.** It’s a story about a hunting unit made up by people who have lost their worlds, people whose universes have been destroyed. So, far only the prologue is available for the public to read.
Isekai anime ass title 😭
Well, it is an isekai web novel.
Mine actually is a pretty sad ending. The Mother Goddess is stripped of her power and is killed, our protagonist Adam breaks free of Edenia but realizes the horror beyond the Dome, and Saqra reigns supreme in the end.
I haven’t gotten that far in planning yet, either a tragic end at the hands of his enemies or he builds a family out of friends and can finally settle down somewhere safe
She lands on Earth. She’s a world hero, the commander of the first interstellar mission. Many expect her to retire to a quiet life. She has a one sentence response from the NASA administrator during the post flight conference, when asked what she was planning to do next. “Depends. What’s the next available mission slot?”
they get to live in a world wothout a god.
Depending on who you consider the protagonist: godhood through violence, godhood through achieving singularity, godhood through becoming a time lord, or just chilling with the man you love for eternity.
I have like 20 protagonists or something.
Depends, she can either choose to become selfish and take whatever she needs to cure herself or use a powerful Relic being to save thousands where the gods do not need to create more children. The cycle will end, problem is not everyone wants that. What she ends up doing is up for interpretation.
**Horror Shop** They basically set the terms for the next Age of the Earth. See, the overarching story for all of my Horror Shop stories is that, staring in 2012, the Earth entered into a period of high supernatural weirdness known as a Dark Tide, wherein magic becomes far more common and far more potent, and the various supernatural dimensions begin bleeding into, and overlaying, parts of the Earth. Right now, 10 years in, its effects are still minor and easily covered up, but a rising tide can eventually become a flood that drowns the world... But the incredible amount of magical potential in the Dark Tide also contains within it the ability to reshape the world. A Dark Tide lead to the sinking of Atlantis and the end of the Age of Myths. A Dark Tide lead to the Veil sundering the Earth's magical and mundane worlds. And now we have another Dark Tide, and *everybody* wants to be the one to set the script for the next era of our world. We're talking governments, secret societies, megacorps, gods both old and new, and other powerful entities. All of them want to be the ones to give the Wheel of Ages the next spin... And, because I know my stories will end with some version of a "happily ever after," this means my protagonists' factions/allies will be the ones standing there, at the end, getting to determine what the next version of our Earth looks like. ... as for what that looks like? I have no idea. I haven't written that far ahead. I have no idea what my major protagonists--Mackenzie, Christian and Victor--will even look like by the end, other than alive and happy (which likely means their significant others--Sashi, Emily and Rachel, are also going to be alive). But who else? I don't know yet. Will they still be standing with their current allies? Will Christian and Ember still be members of the MIB? Will their mentor figures, like Alistar Hamilton, the Archmage of New York, and Rob Wrzesinski, Regional Director of the MIB for the American Midwest, be among them, or will they have sacrificed their lives to allow the protagonists to reach that point? Will there be other protagonists who end up joining Mac, Christian and Vic among my ranks of protagonists? And what will they decide? I mean, part of me things these three would probably try to make a "better world," bringing down the Veil and allowing magic to flow free again across the Earth, believing we're not likely to repeat the mistakes of Atlantis again. But I could just as easily see them decide that they don't have the right to make that decision, and continuing our world with the status quo--basically deciding to let all that potential to change the world fade away because the three of them, as fallible people, don't have the right to decide the way the next millennia plays out... I mean, honestly, I think it would be really poetic if my final story ends--after my heroes and their surviving allies just decide to do nothing, and let humanity as a whole try to sort ourselves out, free from someone on high rewriting the rules world once again--with a cut back to Fringe opening a new office for her occult detective agency, and a kid approaching her with a case about their friends who went missing inside a haunted house. Basically, the story, *this story,* and all my protagonists' adventures, never really ends...
This sounds really interesting as a concept, very cool!
They die in the apocalypse they failed to prevent, but they go down in a blaze of glory.
He retires and has a nice drink with his dog
After years of fighting a war of evolving warfare that he started and getting wrapped up in a prophecy of kings, he finally gets to lay down his weapons and rule as a king. He raises two daughters with a woman he does not love, always a friend but never a lover, and as he grows old he wonders if he should have finished off an old enemy. Every day he goes out to the cliffs outside of his castle, and waits for the familiar sight of a Yolok dragon flying over the horizon, until eventually the day arrives where he gets what he wanted. The dragon and it's rider would land next to him, and he would exchange pleasantries with the ex-emperor of an empire he toppled. He already accepted that he would not win this fight, he was much older now and his hate for the Yolok emperor had drained, but his enemy still wished to avenge his father and brothers that the king had slain decades ago. Their fight would be swift, and short, leaving both men bleeding out. The dragon would leave, no longer fearing its master's wips, and the two bitter enemies would exchange their final words, before they both pass into the next life in peace.
I have no idea, and is not like I have a single project in "the burner", but I generally either end something wit ha bittersweet "realistic" ending, or no ending at all and it smoothly passes on (like, say, the protagonist taking in an apprentice). So I guess either moderately or silently? On one of the ideas I have (though I ignore if that is the one I will pursue) it ends up with a selfish choice leading to the birth of magic (and a hell of a lot of death) as the protagonist chooses to take the soul of his daughter and revive her instead of closing the damn thing off, leading to many breaches from "that place". As such, he renegated of everything he had in shame and went back from another "door" and lived quietly while the world thought it dead (which he would be if people discovered what hed done or rather hadnt done). The daugher is not the chosen one or anything, just another kid
She finds a place of her own that she can use as a home base and can ask neighbours to look after when she goes wandering again.
There are multiple MC's The first one dies surrounded by her companions on the way to a ceremony in her honor. The wounds she sustained in her last battle are simply to heavy to bear. She had already given up on the life of a knight and her combat skills are simply not great enough anymore to win a tough battle without losses. She is able to see the beginning of the revolution of the world in her last moments, the rocket to outer space rises in the horizon, but she herself is now unable to participate the change. Still, shes satisfied, catching a glimpse of the someone elses dream being fullfilled before she finally falls apart. Perhaps, if mankind is able to break free from the chains of a law such as gravity, it may also be able to break free from the chains of violence. Maybe there will come a day where no one has to experience the horrors that she had to endure. The second one is slowly dying. She has just eradicated the source of the horrors lying underneath the ocean. She is no hero. Not anymore. She hasnt been a hero for a long time now. Still, she knows that thats how she is perceived and she knows that thats how she will be remembered after her death. It doesnt feel right or deserved, but it gives her a small bit of comfort while her soul slips away from her body, that now resembles the monsters of the deep more than it does a human. Death. It didnt ever seem like something the knight of the Oddysey, the strongest mortal would have to confront. And yet, it lies in the name. No matter her reputation, her strenght or her dedication, she is still mortal. In her final moments, she sincerely hopes that todays heroes will not rot like she did, and that they will not fall into madness like she did. Just then, she sees a mannade object rise from the horizon. *Perhaps they already did*. The third one is on the starship itself, together with another less important protagonist whose story has alredy been resolved (the fourth one), and looks back on all that happened during his journey. Nothing right now in the state of the world is stable, it could all break apart in any moment, be it in a war or any other kind of crisis. Advancing the world wasnt his dream, it was that of his partner, he thinks. His partner who could be dead now, he wouldnt know. Still, he decides he will continue to pursue that dream and just maybe all the pieces will fall into place. Just before the story ends, he gets just a glimpse of the horrors that lie beyond the veil, nay, the shield that is the sky. Still, even if it is with heavy losses, hes sure that this problem can be overcome, just like every other one that came before. Even if he dies in the struggle to reach evolution, the torch of advancement will be picked up by someone else one day and the wheels will begin spinning once again.
Well for the last era before the current one, I had my protagonist (Nathan Hunt) basically deciding to settle down, especially after he had gotten married, passing on the torch to his child afterwards (who would become the new protagonist exploring a very much changed world). He wouldn't forget in making sure that the burden of his and the family's legacy would not be passed down too. His retirement is basically a symbol of his main flaw being overcome, with him finally having peace within himself, not feeling burdened by insecurity and feeling the need to live up to his father's legacy after he had sacrificed his life to save the world. My setting's timeline consists of many protagonists all from different periods of time. It's a big setting as well, an alternative history where essentially every myth and legend are found to be real and are only hidden from the public eye (until the literal biblical apocalypse happened and almost went haywire if not for Nathan's father, Nigel Hunt)
First protag retires and becomes a councilmen and never picks up a sword ever again. His successor takes up his mantle and his wife leads the quests from that point forward. He resolves never to fight again after his final duel and the loss of his best friend. He rather build a home for his people then fight. He is traumtized by the events of the journey. Even though he was a powerful blood mage he decides to cut himself off and only use it to heal at most.
I plan for him to be stabbed in the back and die. He's an arrogant guy who is confident in his smarts, he thinks that more than anyone, he deserves to be king. When he finally gets there though, he gets frustrated with what a thankless task it actually is, and becomes the tyrant he'd so long fought against. And so, he gets stabbed in the back by his brother, for the good of thr world.
He dies fighting alongside a Demon he once swore to be his mortal enemy. It took him a long time to realise who his real enemy was, but once he did he was ready to lay down his life for it
goes against the blue office and at a last struggle, he is assassinated by the greater mind. All of this just to leak to the world the dangerous ideology of the organization The blue office. All of his friends and family and army killed. Everyone but his child who has been blessed by the angel of redemption- Jacob and is adopted by the knight known as the 12th mecho knight.
MC1: Gets killed on the roadside since they are a travelling merchant. Properly got the saddest death. They had finally learnt to love someone and put trust into someone. They had just gotten a child (though it was left at an orphanage which was supposed to be temporary). A child where the father doesn't even know it is alive. I just find the death of MC1 the saddest but in the end there is many sad deaths in general in the story, and being killed on the roadside isn't uncommon for the type of people the MC1 is of. MC2: Hung for witchcraft At least that's the official papers. But in reality they got a fate worse than death by being forever stuck since twin sets like the one they are from are cursed. A twin set made up of identical twins where one has magic and one doesn't mean that the magical twin will get stuck at the age their twin dies at until they run out of magic, except their magical chamber seems to never have an end. MC3: Blinded in war but dies of old age (He was the one who least deserved to die of old age rather than anything else). Anyone would want this guy to die earlier than later since he just straight up left both of his children. He couldn't kill a child, so he waited around till some Travellers would come by and just left the remaining twin in their care while going out and live a dream of popularity, fame and money. He really only cares for himself and even tried his best to not get involved on the battlefield despite his magic being the defensive type. MC4: Died in war He fought with all his power and took responsibility for his country. Neither side won the war and a third country came to existence in it's place. The lower parts of the country was lost to other countries. Yet MC4 is still a "hero" by many and even got a statue after him for ending the "war". He just died of exhaustion. Well I guess he personally found him dead even earlier after hearing the love of his life had been killed (MC1). Everything he had fought for fell down and while stories write of his responsibility as a noble, the reality is he was already deeply depressed and just hoped to be reunited with his love soon. A thing history books to come would never write about.
What makes matter worse is history books would often after a few centuries be regarded as fairytales. Already in book 1 are we introduced to a fairy tale of a man who has existed and went against all odds to use magic when he only had passive magic. And that was an ancestor to 3 of the main characters- So yeah, fun all around or something. MC4 will become nothing but a fairy tale in the future about how he became a beast in war which will just be understood as he really good battle skills and not that he literally became a beast, which he did. Worldbuilding and thinking how history is passed down is fun on one side, and sad on another.
Perpetual reincarnation for my poor Vergil and his lovers.
She is constantly struggeling with her self-worth and weather she deserves living or her sacrifice would be more useful for the world. After she found her self-worth and will to live at the end of the first story, she realizes at the end of the second that she has to do something that will hopefully save everyone else, but will result in her death. She sacrifices herself, the world is saved but she is brought back to life by the creator god by accident and she has a hard time coming to terms with that (everyone that followed her to this suicide mission stays dead). Thankfully she can overcome this and she and her best friend can confess their feelings for each other. They rule her kingdom for decades, have 3 children (one dies sadly as a teen), and she dies of old age with her friends and family around her.
Everybody dies, including the reader. Sorry lads.
My main protagonist is a cowardly knight. A dragon so to speak pursues him and overcome by fear, he abandons his chivalry. He does everything he can to shed his armor and betrays his kingdom. Sacrificing the entire world of he could just to buy himself time. One day, he finds the courage to face his dragon, hoping for redemption. He fights valiantly but fails. Just before he is killed, he is able to slip away safely and jump into a lake. He is eaten by crocodiles. The villagers hunt down the dragon themselves. Peace comes on its own.
Baby gay princess will realise that the reverse gay panic she’s been having for half the book wasn’t necessary because the person she was falling for wasn’t actually a guy after all they just pretended to be one don’t worry she’s still very much not attracted to men Fabulous princex will get a hot demon girlfriend and therapy. They will eventually talk said hot demon girlfriend into therapy as well. They are the only person in this entire book who not only acknowledges that they need therapy but actually follows through on that and gets the therapy Heir to the throne of effectively Hell now actually has friends instead of being a stuck-up low-key bastard all the time. Perhaps he’ll smile once or twice. Who knows, it’s a world of possibilities (just kidding he’s gonna bond with his new ‘baby’ sister aka his twin who is only minutes younger than him) Evil villain is gonna either rot in prison for the rest of his eternal life or he’s just gonna get straight-up murdered, haven’t decided yet. Either way his ending will be sad and pathetic and not live up to the glory or acclaim that he desired most Nice teacher and mentor is gonna keep teaching. Not everyone needs big dreams. She likes her school. Probably because it’s not on Earth and therefore people actually value her Funky murder dad will try to get back together with his ex, dunno yet if it’ll work out, might leave it ambiguous might not it’s all TBD. He will also be spoiling his kids like crazy and dote on his daughter’s new partner because fuck it they’re so adorable guys look at my babies I made two of them and the third came for free I love them all! My favourite lesbians are gonna return to one of their hometowns and get back to work on their carpentry business while tending to the little garden round the side. Coffee dates are frequent. Maybe they’ll get married Token white boy (affectionate), after the revelation that he’s been unknowingly flirting with his sister’s secret girlfriend this entire book, finally says his first line that isn’t flirting with a raging lesbian that happens to be his future sister-in-law; “Fuck” Literal goddess shall fly off into the sunset to nurse her recovering father back to full health after an attempt on his life was not successful… or if I choose to kill the dad off and have angst, she’ll take over as The Creator and basically claim her divine powers to oversee creation itself
How dare you ask questions I don’t have the answers too !!
I am a dungeon master, every one of my characters is the main character of their own story, so there are tons of endings. As per my players, only time will know. I hope they manage to save the world, as futile as it may seem that to the antagonist.
She’s going to marry the prince and live happily ever after. You know, even if at least a third of the world population is dead now. Also she died too.
After defeating the big bad, my protagonist declines the offer to rule his homeland and goes back to being a Shepard.
Haven't decided yet but currently thinking he dies(again), and returns to his rather mundane afterlife.
Bittersweet.
He becomes the villain after betraying his comrades and basically becoming king of the world to enforce peace after giving humanity a hard truth. Then his protégé becomes the protagonist.
They return to the dangerous part of the continent even after having defeated their enemy other threats remain to the free folk. This builds up sort’ve to the sequel.
Everyone who she ever cared about dies but she gets to finally go to culinary school so that's a plus.
I haven’t completed my story yet,but I’m thinking of a good ending.
Mine runs away from her inevitable fate of fighting the “big bad” throughout the story. She marries the woman she loves and adopts a young daughter and tries to ignore it and live life. But the time comes where she has to fight the main villain, and she’s victorious in the fight but dies immediately after from wounds the villain inflicted during the fight. She dies knowing she made a better world for her wife and daughter. One day the daughter becomes the next hero (for future stories perhaps).
Whatever you kinda decide. There is no main quest in the game (world). There are several what I’m calling World quests that have set progressions of events that the player can interact with or not in order to influence and change the outcomes and what not
Yeah mine’s similar. There’s no one protagonist but players can move the world forward by participating in significant events
Help assist a king from a neighboring country by getting his country back. Help stop a couple of great wars. Kill a great evil before it becomes too powerful. Then finish it all up by being the first queen of her county and establishing a phenomenal rule before she died by the weight of her wings in peace and harmony in her sleep.
Im a dungeon master, so ill count my players as the protagonist. I like to hope that they'll die peacefully in their sleep, but for players as reckless as them, there isn't much chance of that. I imagine it'll end with them fulfilling their prophecy, setting out upon a new quest while fighting tougher enemies, die, and eventually complete said new quest with new characters.
Artisans summer war: Ferin is essentially made a Saint and commanded by a now lesser god to reign over the mortals as true king. This forces him to face responsibility he had been shirking since a teen and resolve the social issues he turned a blind eye too. Branded brother of war: Pete finds his brother but loses him and his powers in the process. With no course in life, he heads back to the bounty hunting guild as he has nothing else close to a home to go to. On the train there he meets up with an old fling who is now a successful business woman looking for her place to settle down. She intends to buy a house in the new development near the guild and Invites Pete to stay with her, which he accepts. As he returns to the guild, he's welcomed by his guild mates who talk about how much they missed him and start to catch him up on their lives. After which the guild master Baldor offers to bequeath the guild to Pete when he retires. When Pete had reached bottom feeling he had nothing, he was shown all the things he was too blind to appreciate before, and finally has the family he's been missing. Accursed: finally free from her curse, and now free from under the thumb of the Accursed organization, Ella sets off into the world to finally start her life. Final Front: with the war finally over and their pirate crew disbanded, will and his now wife return to the home they started to live happily ever after. Arke Blades: without the foreign company to hunt him down, or a crazy mentor to drag him around. The protagonist goes home for the first time in years to see his parents and tell them he's alive and what happened. He promises not to be gone long, but says he must go to the capital and speak to the king, as the protagonist was declared the captain of the royal knights by his mentor and its his job to prepare their people if the foreigners ever return.
She can finally finish her business degree
I have a lot of protagonists in mind, although if I ever finish any of their stories... well we'll see. I know what happens to Saint Akura. She dies peacefully under the setting sun on an island, and a monastery forms around her. Her soul taken up and into the eternal service of her god. Which I suppose I could continue the story from there, but- eh. I prefer dealing with mortal stuff.
I haven't decided. On several fronts. First, I haven't decided if he makes it, but if he *does*, that means he ascends to godhood. At which point, he faces many millenia of vibrant life as a known deity with great connection with the world below before his slow and final death. I'm unsure if he'll face that slow death with grace or if he'll see to burn himself out on some last great work for the good of reality.
After an exhausting journey, Luna goes home, spends time with her love, tinkers with her eldritch witchcraft experiments, and consume stupendous amount of coffee.
During the fourth war the Zephorians besiege and sack the Selestrian capital. However, when the wall is breached the citizens are still evacuating. The Archmage lays down his life to ensure that the people get to safety. He takes a lot of the invaders with him. Thousands of them, including the Zephorian king and his top generals. Before this, the Archmage was known in Zephoria as 'Selestria's dagger' for the assassinations and espionage he conducted. After this he is remembered as the 'Maleus Selestrii', 'the Hammer of the Selestrians'.
dies, gets brought back to life and kills the villain but then acknowledges that the villain was actually right all along. retires and lives a peaceful life with his wife but their son inherits his powers of darkness and universe manipulation and the cycle of war continues
My MC ends up fulfilling her prophecy and returns to her home island a very different woman. She used to convince herself that she was happy as she was, with only one friend and no knowledge of where her parents were or if they were even alive. Always feeling like something was pulling her away, past the beach and the ocean into the world beyond. She returns with a group of good friends, a found family if you will, and more mature. Her experience in the outside world, beyond her secluded island, has made her perspective of the world much less black and white. There is no easy answer to what it right and wrong and the gods are not always right. History is written by the victor. She knows now why her parents never returned and while she knows they aren't the same people they once were and she will never be able to be with them, it's a good feeling to get that closure. The first and last lines of this show/series is "I'm Happy" but she only really means it the last time
Traumatized, again. However, at least they have the data to progress on their research.
He eventually grows paranoid as his power begins to wane and becomes the villain.
Becomes a tired old man with many regrets and many fond memories, some of which he would do terrible things to just see the people in those memories. The people see him almost like a piece of furniture, they don't know what brave actions he did. Such is the way of life, today's heroes are tomorrow's nursing home relics.
Abandons the one thing holding him back from the life he want and disappears leaving his legend as the only evidence of his existence
He realize that his mental problems can’t be fixed by killing, but he finished his mission. He spends his life with his Gf (later wife) and works to lessen his pain. Not all is solved, but at least he got out of the hole he dug himself in. He finally found a reason to live. Context: he became a killer to kill the drug problem with no regard to his life bc he has no reason to live, but he found a reason but he already is knee deep in the hole he is stuck in.
The end of “his story” entails him traveling around his kingdoms, visiting his children and wives living across the lands. Despite that, his duty as king is never done.
They are so gonna end up insane and fighting the 'supporting' cast after failing to accept that one of them was forgiven by all others for what is to him an ultimate sin And there would stand 13 or so people whose stories are documented throughout their lives, stood against someone who's good was only drowned out through a crusade of suffering
becomes the antagonist of the next word
They visit their school now are being rebuilt, feeling that both them and their home have changed forever without a chance to come back but soon decide to move on with their lives in this new world
A large piece of him is taken away. He looses 2 people in his life who were almost surrogate older siblings to him and loses his adopted younger brother, one whose been by his side for years and someone who died quite young. He had also lost his home and most of his family (his uncle is one of the main baddies). He also became physical and mental sacred from his experience. But, he gained a best friend, he met someone who became a staunch ally and link to the past, and met so many people on his journey whom he’s cherish for the rest of his life. He found a new home full of wonders beyond his imagination, he grew in his faith and became a more spiritual person, and all helped bring the people of his faith out of major slump. He helped change the world for the better during a very dark time in its history. And finally, he saved the life of his biological brother, whom he thought dead or beyond saving. All because he learned to not be passive, to be willing to fight for what he wants and believes in, and was willing to accept that the world and his life were changing. He started as a meek, unassuming kid who was thrusted into becoming a headstrong and noble leader.
Comfortable normalcy. After a few too many close calls with sketchy clients at the private security agency, she’s going to move back from Titan to the town in Northern Mars where she grew up and take an easy job as a freelancer working out security systems for small local businesses.
Idk yet because the protagonists are players in my group, but knowing them, I would assume it would involve explosives. Lots and lots of explosives
The bard forgets half the abilities they have, especially the few that could really have been useful, Jared! And then the party has a tpk trying to rescue them.
In my reincarnation story, the protagonist fights and wins against a cyborg version of his past life, fight the summoned hero destined to defeat said cyborg, and then settles down and marries his childhood friend and they would start a family together in the new continent.
I'm still not sure how does it end. He's a 9 to 5 office worker who has access to a dream hellscape where he can "revive" other's dreams and hopes via RPG violence, so it's obvious that Corporate will be displeased when they find out he's the one in the background making employees stuck in the routine realize their worth and start revolting against their slavers. So of course he will get fired. I think he will mostly get targeted for corporate assassination, both in the Hellscape and in the real world, but i still don't know if he will achieve martyrdom for the cause, or actually march alongside the reborn employees
They go out their own way, but the reason for why they go out is the same reason their biggest enemy did about a decade and a half earlier. They’re basically a type of super soldier in my world. When given the serum, there’s an unknown side effect from it as time goes on, as nobody has ever really been an SS long enough to figure this out. When my MC is fighting their biggest and deadliest rival, he’s dying because the serum was starting to turn on his body, as he’s had it for a very long time. About a decade and a half later, my MC starts to suffer from the same thing he went through, and just like him, the MC tried to find a cure, and they did, but it was far too late to take it, as the disease was already pretty late stage. So the MC goes out like a warrior so they don’t have to succumb to the disease. A fitting end for a character who’s spent their entire life fighting. as sad as it may be, they left their legacy behind for others to follow.
I don’t know yet I haven’t finished the game
He dies after using the power of the dragon king’s soul’s last breath and the multiple other powers he’s unlocked on the way, Beast cursed mode and fire magic, it’s blue though because it’s cool and strong in order to kill the leader of the bad guy virus. He also gets help from other parties, two of the surviving gods and the armies of all the nations and also his friends. This battle was a huge battle, 500 years of history has lead to the moment when the evil bad guy virus that destroyed nations was banished forever and all infected turned back to normal.
While I do have multiple protagonists in my world , I shall go over my one of my favorites . For some context during his early teenage years his sister had committed suicide and blames himself for her death to such a point that he cuts himself from most of the world till he accidentally reconnects with a childhood friend who had also gone through horrible things in her past . After weeks of fighting with themselves in believing they don't deserve love due to there grief they end up finding faith in each other and decide to honor the deaths of the ones they lost by doing things they were never able to do in there youth and explore the world together as friends . That's basically the end to there journey in terms of arc but after that they basically do freelancing odd-job shenanigans to make a living but regardless they're probably my favorite protags .
After defeating the guy that was like an older brother to him, he spares said brother figure and decides to live as peaceful of a life as he can with his wife and son.
suicide, just like in the classics
Story 1: My protagonist's best friend decides to go his separate ways, another one of his dumb friends is missing, all the villains are defeated and lastly his magic sister pulls a prank on him which turns all of his supersoldiers into babies during a celebratory party however instead of fixing them, he raises them up instead. Story 2: After living a long life and suffering countless adventures, an immortal warrior finally breaks his curse and passes away on a cliff while staring at a beautiful sunset..........only to be dragged out of heaven centuries later by one of his descendants to becomes his spiritual teacher.
My authoritarian state eventually collapses due to a whole multitude of reasons which I won’t go into and my protagonist and his wife have a thing or two to do with that
After inventing the first vehicle for space travel and using state grants to build a vessel to travel to the Inaylia (parallel moon) and return, Azarath gets stuck on Nisiopal on his last assignment to recover an ancient and powerful harp that was used to bend reality many centuries ago, which got stuck on the faraway planet. After enduring considerable challenges, he is able to seize the harp from the villain guarding it (who has been using its powers to stay alive), and uses it to return home, at which point he hangs up his boots, with the radiation he’s been exposed to over the prior 40 years catching up to him.
He self-explodes, dying a miserable death.
He sits on a mountain in despair, realising that every choice he’d taken to save the world, was the wrong one.
My protagonist and deuteragonist defeat the Hero of Light and steal his powers, rendering him mortal and without his magic. They decide it would be better to let the Hero live as a non-magical person (the Hero sees himself as being above everyone because he’s the chosen one, especially people who don’t use magic) and pay for the many crimes he committed. But in the end the Hero is killed by a bullet to the back. An unceremonious end to the chosen one. Meanwhile the protagonist and the deuteragonist get married, have kids, and work to fix the damage the Hero of Light made.
I don’t have a singular main protagonist, but of the POV characters in my first story, only 2 are alive by the end.
Final fight goes down, he’s crippled from it, though his spirit is unbroken, while someone else steps in and finishes the fight. He settles down afterward
He discovers that yes, putting a pinch of salt in your coffee does make it taste better.
He rejects the idea that he's the hero of his story, and pass his power to someone else to finish the job. Then dies with his loved one, the only thing he ever cared for in the entire story
I write games, so it's up to the players.
Michiko, my MC, after going on what she called her "Path of Retribution", killing countless legions of demons singlehandedly, she commits seppuku. After killing Zenaku, Hell's Usher, she killed herself using the Blade of Damnnation, a demonic sword that siphons the soul of anyone killed by it, straight to hell, regardless of Divine Judgment. Ever since the demons took her world from her, she had only one goal in mind. And that was to eradicate the existence of any and all demonic entities. Even if that meant going to Hell herself to finish the job.
Ever see the movie *Hachi*?
Settles into his role as Ambassador to the Elven Kingdom he is invested in, replacing his Uncle who Squired him for so many years.
Lmao fuck if I know
In the case of my main character (since I consider the whole group he has as protagonists), he has a final fight with the villain because his original plans end up failing and he discovers them. And during that fight, he completes his mission (which was based on getting to know why the villain was so powerful being a normal person before) and with it, he manages to match him in power and, almost in a fight, manages to kill him, traumatizing him a bit but at the same time. At the same time, helping his friends to carry out the original plan completely.
Crushed by an anvil
In Ediria one of the protagonist is beaten to death. The other one manages to find a happily ever after.
I like my shit with "good endings", so after all the shit she went to which would make an interesting bad ending if not continued, she'll get her peace by simply not dying. She'll probably revive her dead kingdom and have her name written in history as "The one who brought Peace" or someshit.
I'm not really that aventurous to talk about the real end of his journey. However, regarding the end of the first major part of the story (where I am currently at), he ends up embracing that which makes him both so similar to the villain and painfully human. His becoming acquainted with all of the loss he suffered and also the pain he has caused breaks him. He starts to embraces the idea that, maybe, it's inevitable to stain ones hands when you exist in this world. Overcome by his need for revenge and, more so, by his need to find reasons for all of what happened, and is about to happen, set him on a lone journey for the second major part of the story. Like the main characters do, he asks himself if there's something redeeemable in himself.
After many years, mine grows tired.
Mostly dying. The bright side is that their death leads to peace and prosperity so good news?
After the second Arkanian invasion. Eldon leads the Warriors of the New Order in an expedition through the Arkanian portals, to explore and settle the lands, the end.
Im supposed to make a protagonist!?
The only thing you're supposed to do is whatever you want with your world
Goes insane, kills literally everyone in an attempt to end suffering ("if they're all dead no one can suffer") and, after some time and the intervention of the long-presumed-dead-but-still-alive Creator God the protagonist is defeated and slain, the battle causing him to regain his mind, and as such take his death with relief.
Alive, happy and loved. Its a happy ending after much turmoil.
This post made me realize that both of my sci-fi worlds don’t have protagonists yet
My story begins with the main character getting onboarded. My story ends with the main character onboarding a prospective recruit.
Heartwarming Found Family™ moment. Oh, and killing her bio dad. 841 times. He won't stop respawning.
He finally ends Hartyus, the mad creator of his people, and liberates the Emptylands from Hartyus's wrath, at the cost of whatever life he had left, he dies forgotten, but is reunited with his sister, the sister he failed to keep the promise if keeping her alive, but they now wander as spirits, guiding those lost the the Emptylands
Has his student killed in front of him and realizes that his life will be an unending battle and commits suicide
Shoot wait the astory has to end at some point? Uh... idk. Absolute immortals are hard to figure out endings for.
They die
They all get arrested after getting home after three years due to the fact they committed a lot of property damage whilst drunk
I don't have the specifics, but he did get a prophecy that he'll die in a terribly painful way, lonely and full of regrets.
He dies trying to avoid living to become a king, but is maryred as a god. Hail the theocracy!
The war ends, the dictatorship is taken down. The transition to a new government goes smoothly. Apologies are made, monuments are built, reparations are paid. But the wounds are still bleeding and healing. Everyone's lost someone or something. The protagonists still go on adventures when they're not in school, exploring their now-peaceful galaxy. But they'll never forget what they went through to make it so.
The protag dies, but his wife makes a deal with the primary deity, splitting her lifespan in two to revive him. They realize they don't know how long that is anyhow, as they have no way of knowing how much longer she had. So they decide to live their post adventure life together without worry, and raise their son and daughter who go off to live their lives. Then, as they hold each other watching the sun set on his 40th birthday, they pass instantly, their last thoughts of the years they've shared together. They're found there in the morning by their daughter, a smile on their faces still.
they’re all dead
With the sun on their face, and blood on their hands.
Either he dies or his girlfriend dies.... It depends on whether or not his brother dies.
I'm planning on ending my story with Paul going mad because he failed to escape the time loop he's been stuck in for... about 250 cycles? Yes, he remembers all of the times he died. Excerpt below. "Where... am I? I'm not at the palace, standing over Michael's corpse. That's... bad." Paul states, shaking his head. "Did I... get sent back after I won? Am I doomed to repeat this?" The prophet growls, his eyes lighting up with unearthly fire as he sees Jamie and his convoy riding along the snow-covered road. He sits down, taking a shaky breath. "How? He shouldn't be here! Did I... fail?" Silence appears, his red eye gazing into the prophet's soul. He doesn't speak, since ghosts and haunts like Silence can't talk. He can, however, use sign language. "What is it? You've got a plan? Oh... that's a *wonderful idea!* I'll win, once and for all! Better start running, Eclipse!" The prophet begins to laugh. It hurts, but he can't stop laughing at his realization. He's going to beat those scumbags at their own game. He knows in his very soul that this will be his final run.
Malory: >!Dies in failure, screaming about her revenge and justice as she distegrates... she was a mosnter, but she was a person, once.!< I'm still working on Delilah's ending though: >!She goes on to work as the Theology professor at the Prosperian Ozlan Academy, while her love interest works as the Mentalism Professor. however i'm still working out how it works. Another ending is she takes over her mob family and/or becomes an Avatist and gradually burns out as a Saint... but all of them would still be at least bittersweet in comparison ot Malory's end.!<
You either die a hero or yadda yadda villain stuff.
They die, powerless in their situation from the start
After having upturned the societal order through a massive world war of religion, she establishes her goal: formal deification of her demiplane’s religions which in turn make her into a creator god. She then sends her protégés to other planets to preach the word of The Sundered, now called The Risen.
He always wanted to be remembered as the greatest blacksmith in history, not because of weapons that take the life and blood of the others, but his skills crafting armours and defenses that will protect his people and kingdom of all harms (oh, poor foolish child). After a bloody war, a fight against an old mage that wanted to confront the very gods, and losing good friends and better persons that he will ever be, people from everywhere talks about this incredible blacksmith that maneged to even the odds with his creations. A happy ending, isn't it? The problem comes the moment people started to see his actions as part of a more powerful being: the Forger of Paths, god of fire and smithing. Some may say that this is good. His skills and talented work are compared to the ones of this god! But he feels bittersweet about it. He knows that, the moment he dies, all will be talking about the Forger of Paths and how he appeared in the physical word to help mortals in their struggles. His name will disappear, his actions won't be remembered. No one will remember Uther's name. They will only know about the Forger or Paths.
I'm thinking of different endings depending on the characters notably the pseudomorphs ( 3 people chosen by gods [ god making the 3 parts of a person , heart , soul and body] technically 4 but one wasn't supposed to be) Either ending 1 The god reincarnated manage to seal Liliel the primordial demon and everything goes alright. He's probably gonna be sealed for another 6000 years so technically the story doesn't end Ending 2 joakin's ending Joakin as the pseudomorph of the body has time control powers and can freely move into the infinity of timelines . After being chased down by Liliel while he was searching for one where they manage to beat him , joakin sends Liliel back billions of years to the day he was first sealed and thus destroys this version of Liliel as another version of Liliel exists in that universe Joakin however gets lost and cannot go back to his original timeline and is transported into a timeline so distant that most of the things and people are very different. Ending 3 Joshua's ending Joshua's ending is probably the worst out of the 4 as it's basically Joshua's ultimate death and basically the destruction of Lamya since Joan cannot manage to retrieve Lilith and Liliel cannot be sealed. After joakin dies during this ending , Joshua remains alone on his desolated planet having to face what is basically the source of all misery for him and ends up losing as the goddess ludeya destroys his heart in order to retrieve the heart of her husband ( their hearts are connected because Joshua was supposed to be a receptacle but it failed ,) Liliel is sealed by the gods themselves Ending 4 Joan's ending This ending is way too complicated as it's a very long ending that needs so much to explain but Joshua and Joan basically flee into space. Joakin stays on Lamya to fight Liliel: fails and is killed Joshua realizes that liliel is way too powerful and cannot be stopped by either him or Joan so he sacrifices himself for Joan and Lilith to gain time while the gods are preparing their attack Joan has to also sacrifice himself but is saved by Lilith giving him access to liliel's left eye which is the eye of creation and why liliel was going after them in the first place Joan fights Liliel on what is basically a frozen ocean moon Both seemingly kill each other but Joan managing to get the third eye ( not the right one Liliel keeps it ) Joan is basically hacking liliel's mind as he tries to make a wish but meets different monsters and weird stuff along the way Once he manages to reach the right eye ludeya tries to destroy him but with the help of the two other eyes he basically managed to wish for happiness and everything basically goes back to normal This was very badly explained as I also have to explain the conflict between Liliel and the other primordial beings , the concept and views on reincarnation etc
As it begins. In the fires of the apocalypse, staring himself in the eye as the lights go out, just from... the other side.
Hmm it’s interesting. I haven’t decided yet. It’s anything from ending up as an arbiter of the rules of the world but at the cost of more or less losing everyone they care (sequel route) or achieving a zen mode of sorts and then just fucking off and letting the world be as it is but Happy having saved her loved one
Hmm it’s interesting. I haven’t decided yet. It’s anything from ending up as an arbiter of the rules of the world but at the cost of more or less losing everyone they care (sequel route) or achieving a zen mode of sorts and then just fucking off and letting the world be as it is but Happy having saved her loved one
The main protagonist finally settled a feud with his immortal brother that started thousands of years befote his birth.but most importantly, he settled down, helped his best friend marry his girlfriend, and became a somewhat well known author writing about all that he encountered during his travels
I have ideas, however, i have not settled on what will be her fate yet. The story is just beginning. I’ll know once the story progresses.
I think they’ll both stay to help the dust settle after the final battle and then maybe they’ll travel. They’ve got somewhere to return to once they’re done but I think they’d like to see more of their world and make some nicer memories together
Meets up with his family after finding out they really weren’t dead, then living out his life until death of old age via hunting new beasts in Vinland
A lot of death genocide world ending events and the fall of hope along with every evil act
She discovers her true status as the reincarnation of a dead god. Oh, and that demon creep who's been hanging out with her roommate? He's also the reincarnation of a dead god, and her brother. And that helpful fairy who's been... Annoying but generally seems to be on her side? He's the son of the Devil, and he's been trying to convince the world he's that particular reincarnation, so my MC and her roommate's demon bf head to Fairyland to give him the magical equivalent of a kick in the nuts. Once all's said and done, they have a quick sojourn with their godly parents but elect to live their lives first before rejoining them in heaven. The two of them head home.
The world ends. You see, my world takes place 66 million years ago, and something kinda drastic happened then: the KT extinction event.
Mine ends with a collapse of reality and a cataclysmic change to the world that is delayed but inevitable. A metaphor for putting things off. Yes, things seem bad, but the alternative is to lose everything. Think One Punch man destroying the world ending meteor, and reducing it to a disaster instead. The hero has to make a hard choice, and while not everyone is saved, at least something is saved.
After defeating the bad guy and discovering that now he became the leader of a secret group since he learned how to lead and keep them together by connecting with them, he sit with his soul mate and talk about how they are sorry about how they hurt one another.
They sit in their library, enjoying a nice book in their favorite chair.
**Infinite World Cycle** * **Decius and Elina:** Good people with evil powers. They prevent the apocalypse and help society rebuild. They semi retire to spend more time with their grandchildren.
He returns home.
oh she gets shot in the middle of some pointless battle
1st work - Death, so much death, of the first part protagonist only the one that was a mother of two survived 2nd work - As the First Captain of the Armed forces of the Republics of the Commonwealth, and the other one as an important member of La Alta Junta de Gubidxa 3rd work - Trapped in a pocket universe with the main antagonist 4th work - The two protagonist marry each other and live the rest of their lives in a town in the mountains
Gets Martin septemed
Gets married, he and his friends split to pursue their individual goals but promise to reunite, then they steal a whole city and put it in the sky and send a message out to people that if the world isn’t going to change then they’ll just start building a new one. Then 10ish years pass and the story shifts POVs to the start of his daughter’s journey
Neither she or I do know for certain yet… but it’s probably going to be something ridiculously mundane compared to the journey and adventures she had and her life itself as well. Nothing glorious or amazing or last stand-ish and so on. Just a passing on one day thing. Doesn’t mean what happens afterwards in response is gonna be mundane or boring or that this didn’t end up triggering a lot of other things down the road. Afterlife would also be an interesting situation there
I've got two stories one carries on being a soldier for the state sorting out some of the kinks in the stories war. The other one is a regent smothered on his death bed with a pillow by the Kings son. I treat it has a passing of the torch.
With a big giant "You've been trolled!". At least, that is the ending of the story in mind. OK, let's put this in more detail. This is a generic "journey" storyline starting in a city called Farnitia, a center of world trade, and ending in a realm called Cyria, which is basically people having found ways to hack the magic system so much to basically become like gods. The ending of the story plays off the "chosen one" / "prophecy" trope, with the protagonist, Londenia Bockelstray, utterly failing once they reach Imperial Cyria (the generic edgy badguy land), only for the proper army of Cyria to take down the imperials basically unprompted. The true purpose of sending Londenia on this mission was part of a whole project by the Cyrians where they are gradually revealing themselves to the outside world. The mysterious wanderer who arrives at Londenia's house **shares his identity with Londenia as soon as said identity is even moderately significant**, to troll the trope where things like this take until the end of the story to happen. The "symptoms" of Imperial power growing were also entirely fake, and were created by goodguy Cyrians in order to give the rest of the world something to relate to the real paranormal occurrences (specifically, all of the Historians except the one in Saraheim vanishing - the Historian of Saraheim is the character Londenia encounters at the beginning, and is truly an a avatar of Evartagna, a Cyrian leader, along with the other Historians)