A lot of stories end with the well known "boom". But i would really like to know what you think. What happens to a popped charactar after they pop?
What happens to the popped inflatees??
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 12:18
#1
firnov
What happens to the popped inflatees??
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 13:24
#3
doubleintegral
I had an idea for a story years ago where popped characters from various stories end up together in some sort of afterlife (balloon girl heaven, I guess?). I went so far as to solicit permission from LVKane and a couple others to use their characters but never wrote the story.
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 17:30
#4
Margeret Moonlught
They die.
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 22:27
#5
Do scraps ferment?
I really like the idea of DoubleIntegral - it sounds like a place where field players go when their characters are killed. To continue analogy - being popped is a state of the soul - on vacation. Fun place! ^_^
Orc and elft laughing and eating from one pot - they wouldn't even talk in life, only fight to death. Master offers three souls to be reborn as minotaurs and haunt Ansalon - who misses flesh and wants to move a bit? Look - more dead coming, maybe they'll tell us Montsegur has fallen? And you are from Shire - recently dead - how thing are going there? Finally, a marriage on Tatooine - I can return to life as my own grand-son, farewell folks, will miss you, don't stay dead for long!
As for me - slip ^_^
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 22:44
#6
A tiny robotic dustpan enters from stage left and sweeps them up.
Wed, 10/12/2016 - 14:53
#7
*Slowclaps*
Thu, 10/06/2016 - 03:01
#8
They're usually dead, but not always. A few of them survive because for them popping is like springing a leak and the air leaves their body. These people need a long period of rehabilitation and are traumatised. On the whole though, they are definitely dead and gone, and their death coincides with their bursting. It could go either way, in that theoretically you might die before or after you pop. We never seem to have the scenario of pre-bursting death though, do we?
Thu, 10/06/2016 - 13:27
#9
LutherVKane
This has come up before in Where do the popped ones Go?
I treat it like I treat every other fictional event I encounter. If I'm reading a story and a character takes a bullet to the heart, I assume that he's dead. The same goes for a character who's inflated to the point of explosion. This isn't always necessarily the case, but it's a safe assumption unless the author indicates otherwise.
In my stories, people who pop simply vanish and it's safe to assume that they're dead unless I indicate otherwise. I typically don't leave much room for doubt on that matter; most of my pops are the result of people acting with the intent to commit murder.
This is one of the reasons why I'm not fond of just ending a story with "Kaboom!" I'll usually write something about the aftermath, however brief, such that there's no ambiguity about what's happened.
Fri, 10/07/2016 - 14:53
#10
firnov
Thank you for the tip. I had a good read
Tue, 10/11/2016 - 16:41
#11
I've always been perfectly content with the popped inflatee being 'gone' but not dead. I think some may have a harder time separating the two notions of existing/not-existing and alive/dead and are forced to explicitly state whether the inflatee is alive or dead. Either death actually turns them on and they state gleefully the inflatee is dead, or death turns them off and in order to avoid the logical conclusion that a popped inflatee must have died, they must be explicitly shown to have avoided the blast, by reforming or somesuch.
I'm more like the latter group with the exception that there is no logical conclusion that the inflatee must have died, so I don't need to explicitly show they have reformed and are alive. I actually find both explicitly showing the inflatee is dead and explicitly showing they are alive to be a turn off.
Tue, 10/11/2016 - 18:01
#12
They spring a leak, air comes out and they return to thier normal size. The leak heals itself.
Tue, 10/11/2016 - 19:50
#13
Turns out each and every time the KaBoom! heard was actually just a car backfiring as it passes behind. The girl is quite fine and grows as big as she likes with no lasting reprocussions other than a bit of awkwardness.
Fri, 10/14/2016 - 15:35
#14
I guess it depends on your scenario. I just like the idea of cartoony morphs, so I'm not really cool with "BOOM!" and they're dead. I did do a story where someone popped and died as a result, but that was really because that worked for the story. (And it was the conclusion to a series, so a big BOOM! seemed a necessity.)
For my preferred cartoony-ness, the popped person is now an empty sack like a popped balloon. The thing is, a human has several places air could escape, so the air could rush out and leave them flat. There might be ways they could be "repaired," or they could be inflated again, little more than a living toy for the inflator.
In my case, they're back to normal. Totally reformed. Any guy that would happen to burst, if the story I read is left dubious on the inflatee's fate, ends up with a total reforming. Death is no fun at all. Plus, it allows for seconds.
To be honest, popping is substitued with climax in my case. Since most of the guys in my drawings and stories end up thoroughly enjoying it, it's only the logical conclusion I found.
As for the explosion itself, it's cartoony, nothing-to-rubber-scraps. But all is well in the end. Sometimes a comical red tinge on the popped man's belly after that.
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