Zeta's one breaking point is that if we were in a story then nothing mattered including her own existence. It's the same hypothetical break that any fictional character could have if you told them the same. From comics. From…fanfiction.
That depends on how you see 'fictional' universes. Is the author a great god who makes his puppets dance. Or is he a chronicler noting down the history of the place, and the biographies of the characters?
You failed one of the greatest tests a person can ever face Zeta; should you be confronted with the potential for your life to be inherently meaningless, how do you
give it meaning?
"And they'll praise it, the fucking bastards, they will! Because all they want is the pain and gore and sadness! That's what they want, that's what I'll give them!"
No Zeta. Darkness Induced Audience Apathy is a thing, and that's all you'd have given us. Darkness, pain and suffering. Your writings would be like a ten year old trying too hard to be edgy. If we read it it'd be through sheer bile fascination and as an example on how
not to do a story.
What we want? I've found that one apt description of the culture of SV and SB is 'Rambo on the outside, Disney princess on the inside.' We aren't stupid, we know the world can be a dark, terrible and hurtful place. But gods be
damned if we let it
remain such a thing when we can make it better. And if it
can't be made better, at least we can try to make the place of us, our friends and
everyone we can reach a better place than it is now.
And Zee, you were never a main character. You were never even a
side character in the story that is told. You were just a bit part, with a role that, in the end, doesn't even provide that great a twist. It's just another attempt to tug on the heartstrings, like so many we have seen before.
