#wristcutters a love story

[pixiexbites]

[deramin2]

(Spoilers for Critical Role Campaign 1)

I don't have any expectations for wherever FCG will stay dead or come back somehow because I've spent 9 years watching Sam Riegel totally subvert my expectations in a narratively compelling way.

But I will say that "FCG shouldn't come back because it would lessen the impact of a narratively perfect death" is EXACTLY what people were saying about Percy's first death after C1 E68. (The first televised character death.) If he had to have an end, it was a fitting end that, while tragic, neatly tied up the thesis of the story. Would Taliesin even want him to come back? With Whitestone saved and Ripply killed, was there even much left to explore?

They found Percy's death letter telling them he loved them all but please bury him in a ditch with all his designs so he could be forgotten by history. He was so sorry for all he'd done and he could never make it up.

But they tried anyway, having to wrest Percy's soul away from Orthax. The players knew what they said in the resurrection ritual was meaningful along with their rolls. But they did not know they were also having to convince Taliesin. If they'd tried to appeal to Percy's soul in the wrong way, dice be damned, Percy was going to refuse. What we got was really meaningful and powerful roleplay (especially from Marisha and Laura) that did convince Percy along with successful rolls.

Being brought back did not at all weaken Percy's own sacrifice or the impact of his death. It forced him to confront everything he'd been running from. It forced him to see that there were people who loved him and would not let him throw himself away for them. They didn't want a martyr, they wanted their friend. It utterly changed the trajectory of his character.

There's only four ways I can think of on the table to bring FCG back:

True Resurrection — Incredibly expensive high level spell. They would have to find the materials as well as someone who both can and is willing to cast the spell in the middle of a war to stop a second Calamity. None of this would be easy. The ritual could still fail. FCG could decline to come back and the other players would not know that until they went to all the effort. The Raven Queen views True Resurrection as heresy which is why they didn't try it on Vax. How would a second chance change them?

Reincarnate — Lower level and cheaper spell. FCG would come back as a fleshy being instead of an Aeormaton. Would the experience live up to FCG's fantasies about it? How would it change them to realize they are truely alive, and always were, but are now also mortal? Reverse Veth story? Wild ass Pinocchio retelling? What does it mean to get a second chance but everything about you is different?

Wish — I think this would count as duplicating True Resurrection. High component cost and requires a high level magic user. (If it's duplicating a spiral there's no risk of no longer being able to cast Wish.)

Hag Deal — They do know a fatestitcher Hag who likes them and limes making deals even more. Orym may be able to just extend his existing deal. What are the consequences for the deal marker as well as FCG? Would the robit feel responsible for that person's fate? How would that affect how they feel about coming back and the meaning they need to make from it.

I don't think there's a right or best option because whatever we speculate on, the actual result will be full of meaning and very poignant. I can't imagine that Bell's Hells won't try to bring him back. They've lost so much already. They couldn't bring back Eshteross or Bertrand or Will & Derrig. They couldn't live with not even trying. Maybe their method works, maybe it doesn't. But at least they tried.

And if FCG does come back, they have to live with knowing that even though they saved their friends and put an end to Otohan, they also hurt their friends by treating themselves as disposable. They forced their friends to confront that each of them might have done the same and that's deeply unhealthy. It will change the character development tremendously.

My favorite film and play genre is where the protagonist dies (or nearly dies) (usually self-inflicted) at the beginning and has to journey through purgatory to find themselves again before they can return to the living. Films like Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) or Castaway on the Moon (김씨 표류기 2009). Death matters because it reminds you to live. The journey is finding meaning in both life and death and coming back utterly changed.

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[dipolos]

Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)

[dumbassonelm]

Halloween Wrist Cut Warrior headcannons!!

Ignore the gif it's the only one I could find:<

Menhera-chan pink (Momoka Sakurai)

🫧 is forced to go trick or treating with her younger cousins (never dresses up)

🫧 her favorite candies smarties or tootsie pops

🫧 complains about all the decorations, but secretly doesn't mind them

🫧 hates school halloween dances

🫧 hates school in general

Menhera-chan blue (Sumire Kurauchi)

🪼 hands out candy like valentines to her small group of liked people

🪼 kind of likes Halloween dances at school

🪼 tries to put effort into Halloween costumes (ends up arguing with Momoka about what to be)

🪼 one Halloween, she was high and walked into someone's house

🪼 her favorite candies definitely pixie sticks

Yumekawa purple (Himeko Odakura)

🪻 dresses up as a wrist cut warrior every year

🪻 never has to buy a new costume unless He lost weight

🪻 loves jolly ranches, blow pops, and those giant ass lollipops half the size of your head

🪻 goes trunk or treating

🪻 stutters every time she has to say 'thank you' to someone for giving her candy (normally doesn't say it at all)

These probably aren't that accurate,,,, but I tried!

I'll put the link to read the English dub version of the Manga in the comments!!

[texaschainsawmascara]

Wristcutters: A Love Story

[soggybongwatter]

wristcutters: a love story

[carnivorecarcass]

[youtookthesunwithyou]

Forever one of my most favorites 💖

[gxxdomen]

shannyn sossamon and a white boy in distress is my favourite genre

[transgendergoblinfromspace]

“Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.”

-Kneller(Tom Waits)

[lyriquediscorde]

Wristcutters (2006)

[styxnbones]

i have no idea *what* the spectrum is, but i am absolutely certain that The Passenger and Wristcutters: A Love Story are on opposite ends of it.

something like "degree of tragedy in films where a main character goes on a roadtrip, falls in love, and kills himself (in no particular order)" maybe

[prismatica-the-strange]

You think Wristcutters and Beetlejuice could exist in the same universe?