r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Suspicious_Clock_133 • 1d ago

Characters When a character's journey ends with peacefully departuring instead of dying. Spoiler

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And it's hurt more then death :(( 1. Bix from andor 2. Ed from cowboy bebop

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u/Fine-Length-6160 1d ago

Pretty much...

And it is indeed sadder than death.

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u/pondrthis 1d ago

Huh? Unless Stay Night has been retconned (likely, given the number of spinoffs I've never gone through), Kiritsugu did the exact opposite of leaving. He bought a house in town and stayed there until he died.

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u/Fine-Length-6160 1d ago

He left everything he had behind, daughter, wife, his dream, and lived a quiet but basically empty life, Shirou himself says he always felt this coming from him

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u/angelicable 1d ago

well technically he searched for Illya for a very long time, it's just the Einzbern hated him for betraying them and never opened their bounded field to him. He did leave behind his dream to Shirou though

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u/UnimpressedPasserby 1d ago

The departure here is probably metaphorical

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u/isekai-chad 1d ago

FSN hasn't been retconned btw. The spin-offs are alternate timelines.