AN: Crack? Or Genius.
So I built this story entirely off the title. I just thought it was a funny idea and decided to roll with it. This is a foil to the Gun Knight idea. Instead of having a character you’ve grown to care about get saved late into the story, what if you have a character you have no investment in die off in the first chapter, and then grow to care about them.
So, you see a man get shot by a mugger (the how of the death isn’t that important, just that it happens,) and get to go through the funeral processions. The man dies, and every other chapter will take place at his grave. Each chapter can have a different person from his life show up, and just start telling stories about the man. For example, maybe his daughter could show up, and she needs advice about something, say, whether or not to go to her hometown college or to go out of state, and she’ll just start talking at the grave, “you always knew what to do” etc. She’ll talk about that time he had a similar decision to make as a kid, and how he told her about that time, when he “honestly just flipped a coin.”
The story would be short-ish, having maybe 10 chapters, and would end with a final chapter that goes over what happened with all the different characters. How all of their conflicts had been resolved with the advice they had been given in life. The goal of the story is to try and gain relation to a character you only know through other peoples anecdotes.
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