Years ago, I was an X-Files fan (this was back when it was still good) and I had an X-Files dream one night in which I was the Victim Who Dies Horribly Before Mulder and Scully Get There.
I was being pursued by a vague and nonspecific horrific monster of some sort, or maybe a psycho killer with ESP, I'm not sure. As I fled, hid, and in general tried to protect myself, I was nonetheless filled with the despairing fatalistic certainty that none of it would do any good. I WOULD be found and killed/eaten/zombiefied, because I WAS THE VICTIM WHO DIES BEFORE THE HEROES ARRIVE. That was my role. There was no escaping it. I think I could actually see Scully arriving as the monster/killer caught up with me.
As the heroes are searching for a way to survive, they come across an old man living alone who is the only one with knowledge of the talisman that counters Evil. After passing on these instructions, he wastes time searching for the glasses that are on his forehead and Evil eats him.
I'd be the one that realizes what's going on, tries to explain it to the others, drafts up a workable plan for survival, and the one that no one listens to.
I would then be killed while in a rant explaining why everyone else is going to die, which would then convince them that I was (posthumously) correct.
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Date: 2009-04-30 02:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-30 02:22 pm (UTC)I was being pursued by a vague and nonspecific horrific monster of some sort, or maybe a psycho killer with ESP, I'm not sure. As I fled, hid, and in general tried to protect myself, I was nonetheless filled with the despairing fatalistic certainty that none of it would do any good. I WOULD be found and killed/eaten/zombiefied, because I WAS THE VICTIM WHO DIES BEFORE THE HEROES ARRIVE. That was my role. There was no escaping it. I think I could actually see Scully arriving as the monster/killer caught up with me.
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Date: 2009-04-30 05:13 pm (UTC)But, I'd rather be the vampire (and not the sparkly kind). Nosferatu.
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Date: 2009-05-01 12:03 am (UTC)I'm the one who didn't WANT to go investigate the HAUNTED SCARY EVIL WOODS with the psycho-killer on the loose....
So I booked the first flight to Disney.
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Date: 2009-05-01 01:40 am (UTC)I'm the one who looked up, realized there was a horror movie going on, and left without saying goodbye or telling anyone I would be right back.
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Date: 2009-05-01 02:58 am (UTC)I would then be killed while in a rant explaining why everyone else is going to die, which would then convince them that I was (posthumously) correct.
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Date: 2009-05-01 03:10 am (UTC)As for me, remember Burt from Tremors?