OSW: A Committed Suicide, PG-13

[devilinthedetails]

Title: A Committed Suicide

Rating: PG-13 for references to suicide.

Word Count: 35

Summary: Jon finds it more difficult to accept his father’s death than his mother’s.

Notes:Part V of my Jon set. Inspired by mistrali’s prompt “Suicide.” Thanks to mistrali for the inspiration.

A Committed Suicide

His father had committed suicide—had chosen to end his own life—and that made it harder for Jon to accept than if he had died of dark magic and illness as Jon’s mother had.

[Seek]

I feel like this must be especially hard for Jon to grasp, both because it's his father, and because nothing seems to faze or break Jon, while we get the sense Roald was depressed or at least grieving by that point. Lovely comparison here!

[mistrali]

Yes, I can imagine. Jon is so action-oriented (or, I don’t know, forward-oriented) and also so young here that it must be hard for him to grasp that his father chose to take his own life. I feel that Jon’s very nature would be to keep living, whatever it took, whereas Roald probably, understandably, felt he didn’t have that option.

A very thought-provoking sentence into Roald’s possible reasons for committing suicide, and Jon’s reaction to it.

[devilinthedetails]

Thank you both so much for commenting!

I definitely think that his father's suicide would be especially difficult for Jon to grasp both because it is his father and because Jon is a very resilient person whereas Roald seems to have been driven to commit suicide by depression and the sheer depth of his grief for Lianne.

I do picture Jon as being a very action and forward oriented person as well and so for him it would be hard to fathom his father seeming to "give up" and Jon being so young also couldn't grasp how weary of life and grief an older man like his father might be. I think Jon's the type who would always want to keep living and fighting whereas his father might be more inclined to consider sort of surrendering to death and finding peace in being reunited with Lianne in death.

It means so much that you found this a thought-provoking sentence into Roald's possible motives for committing suicide and Jon's reaction to his suicide.

Thank you so much again for commenting!