I think some part of it is that we love the characters and want them to be happy
Thing is, sometimes, there are characters/people who *are never* going to be happy, from the way their faults lie, or "fate" knocks them...and their stories are *deeper* for it.
Aragorn, for example, had a happy ending with the former Elf of his dreams...but her ending was bittersweet.
Frodo's ending was beyond bitter-sweet. He saved his people, had no romance, had no relationships of the romantic type and basically saved the Shire for others. (that's how I see Daniel, I guess). To have a character like Frodo end up in a cliche Romance and end happily just demeans his character - and yet, I'm sure there are plenty of ficcers in that fandom who do just that for him.
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Thing is, sometimes, there are characters/people who *are never* going to be happy, from the way their faults lie, or "fate" knocks them...and their stories are *deeper* for it.
Aragorn, for example, had a happy ending with the former Elf of his dreams...but her ending was bittersweet.
Frodo's ending was beyond bitter-sweet. He saved his people, had no romance, had no relationships of the romantic type and basically saved the Shire for others. (that's how I see Daniel, I guess). To have a character like Frodo end up in a cliche Romance and end happily just demeans his character - and yet, I'm sure there are plenty of ficcers in that fandom who do just that for him.