Hazel went to Rabbit Heaven.
Crap.
Buck up, plant, rabbits in the wild are lucky if they live 3 years, and that’s IF they don’t have to fight The General.
May Lord Frith bless you and keep you.
Beats Rabbit Hell, I suppose.
Rabbit Hell is, coincidentally, Fox Heaven.
Try Garnett’s Lady into Fox as a follow up, and be of good cheer.
dammit.
What would you have preferred? That he live forever? That he go to Rabbit Hell? That he be eaten by a Venus Fly-trap? That he cease existence when he died, thus proving that the elaborate rabbit religion and mythology was a lie?:dubious:
This is a very enigmatic OP.
It seems unusual to kill off the protagonist in an afterward. Then, I am an enigmatic guy after all.
You scoff at the Black Rabbit of Inlé? Good thing you’re a plant.
Nitpick: Hraka.
It has it’s advantages.
Never mind, ninja’ed by Dung Beetle. No surprise there, really.
I think the phrase “kill off” doesn’t really capture the moment. He lives a long( longer than normal it is implied ), happy life. Long enough to see his dreams and struggles come to fruition with a harmonious, prosperous warren. He dies peacefully in his sleep of old age and then is invited by his god to ascend to minor divinity as the rabbit equivalent of an angel. He’ll be the hero that following generations will tell tales about and mythologize such that he will eventually enter rabbit culture as an exemplar of rabbit leadership.
Can’t really call that a downer ending. It is the opposite of that :).
Better than killing him or her off near the beginning, like Game of Thrones or Psycho.:eek:
Plenty of books or movies kill the protagonist off at the end, either tragically or elegiacally. This was only different in doing it in an afterward.
Phillip Marlowe doesn’t get whacked, Sam Spade doesn’t die, Tony Soprano doesn’t…wait a minute…
I should’ve said, “By the Lord Frith!”
Hearing that hurts like some kind of punch.
I think the presence of cigarettes, and possibly automobiles iirc, within their creation myth handily disproves rabbit religion. Well, at least to any being who lives on a long enough scale to experience the emergence of such things within one lifespan.
Given the name of the OP, I think we can assume the third alternative would be their preferred outcome, and that the original post should be read in the same tone as “That cake got moldy. Crap”
The Lapine creation myth doesn’t have cars or cigarettes. It ends with El-ahrairah being gifted his tail and hind legs and Frith’s promise that his people will never be destroyed. Everything else is various tales of El-ahrairah’s cunning and/or trickery but, since El-ahrairah is essentially immortal, that could take place at any time from creation to last week.
Citizen Kane dies, King Kong dies, Braveheart dies, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid die, Jean Valjean dies, Cool Hand Luke dies, Charlotte the spider dies…