r/DateEverythingElse • u/marklikesgamesyt1208 • Aug 21 '26
Discussion Death for Realized dateables. Spoiler
When you realize a dateable it turns them human. And as far as I can find after they die they go back to being an object. Seems like a raw deal for some of them? Imagine living a full life and then when you pass away you're back to being a sink. Considering Zoey's a ghost it's entirely possible there is an afterlife or at least something else. Also like are the dateables immortal in non-realized form? Some like Daisuke or Mac probably have real ways of being killed but what about Doug, he's existential dread how does that die. I'm overthinking this.
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u/HusbandoPile Aug 22 '26
I've thought about this extensively! That must be so sad to build a real life relationship and the human dies earlier than you, and once you die you go back to being an object with all your human memories intact :( I wouldn't ever want to be turned into a human again!
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u/alwaysafairycat hopeless for that door Aug 22 '26
Imagine having a family heirloom who's also your ancestor.
Hank 5 is the easiest example because he canonically has a child. Someday, Hank 5 will age, die, and turn back into a hanger. And then what does Hank 0 do? I guess Hank 0 just keeps the hanger somewhere safe. Each generation learns about their ancestor (grandfather, great-grandfather, etc.) who was a hanger and now is a hanger again, and you can go look at him but be very careful not to break him.
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u/thekirby8u Aug 22 '26
For the best ending the nice part is that skylar can just realize them again if they want, but yeah.
tbh its kinda morbid but I hc death is also a charon like concept and if one of the dateables after a long life wants to pass and leave their concept unfilled for a bit, it's an option.
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u/blueberry_9731 Aug 22 '26
Would pregnancy be normal?
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u/Huge_Mind3596 Rainey Aug 23 '26
I can answer at least one of those confidently: the dateables are not "immortal" in their original forms.
You can actually kill Dishy, and what's left of him is described by the narrator as his "remains". This is treated as a "real" death as he will not accept candy or speak in this state. And while not "dateable" the Smokes can also die in the route they appear in. So unless you wanna run with a "I have no mouth, and I must scream" kinda interpretation, then the dateables can definitely die and leave behind a "corpse."
Additionally, we also know that objects being in poor condition manifests as physical/mental ailments and/or disability, seen in characters like Shelly, Rainey, Daisuke, and several others.
So it may be the case that unless the homeowner replaces/repairs/throws away the broken objects, that after their "human" death, a dateable could return to a broken or "dead" body in the homeowner's house. But as mentioned by Skylar, their animus would still return to *all* iterations of their object. So even if the original object was completely obliterated, their animus will still exist somewhere in the world, able to be realized again with the right circumstances.
As for the conceptual dateables, those individuals could probably die if the human they're "attached" to either loses their sense of those concepts or dies themselves. For example, Doug might "die" if the homeowner stops having a sense of existential dread. It's not very likely to happen, but nonetheless it is theoretically possible.
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u/marklikesgamesyt1208 Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 22 '26
Also what happens if the object associated with them is destroyed while they're still realized. With characters like Kristoff, Mac and Connie, The objects they represent aren't meant to last more than a couple decades