2. the history buff in me is flashing a red light at the STDs thing. unless you mean syphilis...but. anyway. DEATHS. NO. BADBADBAD. i agree, this would be so much epic win if this ends up being a novel. if ryan dies, it would be beyond dostoyevsky, it would be everyone having a fucking crisis because it would all have been so useless! like, sure, death freed him or whatever, but STILL. like, just, NO! because he was already free! sort of! DEATH, NO/MFN?