#does the dog die?

[kyliafanfiction]

If I ever include a dog as a significant feature of any story I write... I will make sure to kill it in a suitably gruesome fashion.

Not because I don't care for dogs IRL, but because I'm really annoyed at how pissy people will get about dogs dying in fiction, more than humans dying.

[ladyluscinia]

Hello! You are one of the only people who watch Black Sails who I follow, and I have a trigger question for you. Is there kid death? Is there kid death for kids that we know? (do you know when it happens?) Doesthedogdie says yes for the first, but doesn't specify for the second. If you don't know off the top of your head that's fine! I wonder if you could point me in the direction of someone who might?

Thank you!

I'm thinking back and nothing is jumping out at me. There's not really any children in even the minor reoccurring characters that I can think of. Vane has some childhood trauma stuff and gets to relate heavily to a kid in the same terrible situation once, but the kid lives.

There are a couple of mass death events - towns getting bombarded or invaded - where I wouldn't be surprised if they did a flash of things like a kid/mother crying bloody in the streets or something, but I'm not remembering anything specific so it wasn't a major focus. And there are a lot of slaves throughout the show who go through violence - the two biggest likely offenders for child death would be an attack on an escaped slave enclave (where there definitely were children but they had some time to try and hide them) and revolt-prompted massacres at plantations (though the latter are mostly off-screen events that get discussed). Again, I'm not remembering anything specifically to do with a kid.

In general, I would say the show is pretty good at making sure the violence that could be gratuitous is handled deliberately and anything meant to make you very uncomfortable (Max's S1 arc, the keelhauling) has enough story-level punch to make it matter (though obviously still uncomfortable and potentially triggering). I doubt they would do something as upsetting as that in a way that I wouldn't recall as a big deal, but if anyone is remembering something I'm not please remind me!

[lotus-pear]

in love with tragedy

[fatphobiabusters]

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[its-kinda-snowy]

A dog and his man.

[swan2swan]

This tweet has wholly altered the way I view this particular moment.

For me...yeah, the dog lives. Of course the dog lives! He's always lived! Every time I've watched the movie, the dog lives.

But this tweet made it click: audiences didn't know that. It would 100% have been a cinematic move to have this shot turn into Boomer getting swallowed up by the fireball, imprinting the horror of the alien attack...not by killing a kid or Vivica Fox, but just the dog. He's just a dog, after all. He doesn't need to survive. He has no role in the plot from this point on. Of course the dog's going to die! He's a dog! It will be darkly comedic and tragic and put emotional devastation onto the audience.

BUT NO.

THE DOG LIVES.

THE DOG IS A NATIONAL HERO. A SURVIVOR.

SO OF COURSE THE AUDIENCE LOSES THEIR MINDS.

THAT'S THE BEST DOG YOU'VE EVER SEEN.

[psychicwound]

kicks & screams & cries & aughhhhh

[conarcoin]

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[baejax-the-great]

Really have to assume that anyone saying hector didn't deserve to die the way he did didn't actually read the Iliad

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[motheroftheantichrist]

Saw AU where Adam survives the bathroom trap but Lawrence isn't told. He only finds out a few years later when Diana's therapy dog needs to go to the vet. They're out of town so he goes to an emergency clinic he's never been to before, and Adam is the vet on call.

[chickpeamcb]

what the

[bigender2]

this does the dog die comment on "the fly" is the funniest thing to me

[lotus-pear]

regret

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Advanced Interrogation Technique: Dog

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[titaniumions]

okay but why does beast yosano's design kinda solo the original