After The End

[sonetka]

Waiting for a punishingly long sports event to end gave me a lot of time to speculate about the eventual fates of one-off fictional characters. So far there's only been one which resolved itself into a vignette, though. Because whatever Ryland Vaughan might say while drunk, I firmly believe that that bottle of Veronal was more of a dramatic prop

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[nineveh_uk]

Poor Vaughan, it's all too plausible. He is going to spend the rest of his life with people wanting his anecdotes/connections with the wrong person. Though no doubt he will find some consolation giving bitchy qhotes to journalists.

[sonetka]

On the plus side, though, he'll get to dine out on the story of How He Discovered That It Was Murder for *years*. And technically he'll be right, since it was his demand for an inquiry that really got the ball rolling (and nearly killed Harriet in the process). Since this is by far the most interesting thing that has ever happened, or will happen, to him, he'll always be ready to provide quotes for articles or short essays for literary retrospectives. He'll be massaging that open wound long after Harriet is saying "Phil who?"

[nineveh_uk]

I can just see him telling the story at his pensioners' club.