Thanks, guys, for all the Curtain Call and RoTS love!!
As far as favorite death scenes go, there are definitely two ways to answer that one - funny or serious. There are so many funny ones in 1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter and Revenge of the Slaughtered that I can't even narrow it down to one! Tracy and Steph have both contributed a lot of creative deaths, and Erika wrote one where Nick died after ODing on Viagara (they have those warnings about an erection lasting longer than four hours for a reason!) that cracked me the hell up. I think my favorite one to write was the Burning Up death in 1000 Ways. It's not even the most creative of the ones I've come up with; I think it's just the "soundtrack" that makes me like it so much LOL. "The way you shake, shake, shake, shake that ass..." For RoTS, of course it's the Muffin Man one! I will never top that one LOL.
For serious death scenes, I agree with Mare that Brian's death in Scared of Reality was a good one because it was a shocker, happening in the middle of the story just when you thought he was going to get away. Another one for me would be Nick's death at the end of the Swollen Issues series because, although it was coming, it was still a shock in its own right, and it wasn't pretty, but brutally realistic. I respect that. I was so attached to that series that I sort of grieved that one LOL. For my favorite I've written, I have to go with Curtain Call. I am proud of how that scene turned out.
As for saddest scene, I agree with everyone who said the end of Remember Me This Way was really sad. I've kind of built up a tolerance to where I don't cry easily at fanfics anymore, but that one did make me cry. Watching Nick forget what year it was and regress back to the Millennium era, then forget the people in his life and start seeing them as strangers, and ultimately forget who he was... that deterioration was just tragic and definitely brought some tears toward the end. I think the saddest scenes that I've written have been when Brian's whole family died (the first time) in Song for the Undead and Casey's death in By My Side. I remember actually crying over those Casey chapters, and I hardly ever do that with my own stories (though there was some influence from Dumbo there... holy shit, can that movie make me cry!). Apparently killing children, even fictional children in minor roles, bothers me more than killing Backstreet Boys LOL.
