snogged | Day 30 - Saddest Character Death (Reply)

It feels strange to make this the last day, but perhaps the creators thought that character death, the end of a life we cared about, is more powerful a cap than favorite series finale.

In any case, my number one choice for this is without a doubt, Joyce Summers. In a world where people died at the hands of vampires and demons almost every night...losing Joyce to a brain tumor was the hardest reality to face. I'm tearing up just thinking about that episode and how it dealt with each one of the characters as they reacted to the loss.

Of those characters, I think Anya's monologue still moves me the most, even though Willow freaking out about the sweater comes very close second.

ANYA: I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's, there's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And, and Xander's crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why.

*sniffles and sobs*

There have been other character deaths that have made me sob loudly in my living room, but it feels weird to call it honorable mentions. In no particular order, Denny Duquette (Grey's Anatomy), Rex Van de Kamp (Desperate Housewives), George O' Malley (Grey's Anatomy), Lindsey McDonald (Angel the Series), Tara (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and Winifred "Fred" Burkle (Angel the Series. I realize that Fred came back as Illyria, but I was wreck for the entire episode where her death was dragged out in the most painful way imaginable.