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The last day by ~Salkafar:iconSalkafar:


©2005-2009 ~Salkafar
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Hi. You donīt know me. Iīm the guy with the worst job in the world.

What? No. Not that. Not that, either.

I get to watch people die.

Which ones? Every one. Every last one. Every damned one. Every blessed one, too.
Everyone who dies anywhere in the world. About a hundred fifty thousand every day.

Hurry? No, I donīt have to. I have all the time in the world. Iīve been at this job for - Well, a good long time. Scratch that. A very, very BAD long time. A stinking rotten bad time.

This job kicks my ass on my best day. This is not one of those days.

Why? Because I have to. I canīt stop. Itīs not just a job, itīs penance. Thatīs right. I am paying for my sins. This is my damnation.

I donīt know. Thatīs also part of the punishment. Sometimes I want to know just what it was I did to deserve this so badly -
And sometimes I am scared to death to know and hope to God I will never know. Sometimes I think I would rather do this job forever than having to find out what it was I did.

This is not one of those times. Right now, Iīd rather be anywhere than here and have to watch this.

The boy is Rolando. Sheīs Giulietta. Theyīve known each other since age 4 when her family moved in next door to his. They went to school together and they played games during puberty together. Last week he got a steady job, which was what he wanted to have before he could propose.
Today he asked her. Today, of all days.

He asked her and sheīs gonna say yes, and for about half an hour they will be the happiest people in the world. Then, heīll run across the street ahead of her, and because heīs so happy he will be just a little too careless.

Thatīs where I come in. I am the guy who has to explain to him heīs not going to marry her and that they will not have children together. That they will not be together anymore. That they might never be again. Then, I get to take him to judgment.

Actually, I think heīll be okay... but thatīs when the fun really starts. Because she now has two choices... go on living with her broken heart, or kill herself in the hope sheīll join him in the hereafter. Youīd be surprised how many do at that age.

And then sheīll go to Hell. And then sheīll never see him again. And he will know that she is in Hell, while he is in Heaven. So heīll be in Hell, too.

And there isnīt a goddamned thing I can do about it - but I have to watch anyway.

I said this job kicks my ass every time. Actually itīs worse.
It breaks my heart.

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:iconjoenzanderfield:
Wow, just wow. Not only is the art awesome, but the write up makes it that much better.
:iconongaru:
Wow. Great art--great backstory...I really need to do some Jack fanart of my own one of these days...

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I'm the kind of person your mother warned you about.

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