And no I do not like the reboot.

Sorry this one shot is so short.

I can see why your name is WTF.

WTF?

With everyone dying nowadays, you don't see a lot of cartoon characters die. Either from children's programming or adult entertainment, but when done right, with enough emotional investment, it can be a real tearjerker. Heck, they don't have to die, you just have to feel empathy and relate strongly to the character(s). The episode "Helga on the Couch" from "Hey Arnold" makes me teary-eyed at how Helga is distant from her family and overshadowed by her sibling. The pain and loneliness she suffers through is buried so deep in her subconscious, she doesn't know about it until she finally opens up. The episode works greatly on its own as it firmly establishes the relationships with the characters involved and how it has affected her up to this point. If you haven't seen the show, the episode still proves to hit the emotional chords with all the proper development in its story and chemistry with others. This story, however, doesn't do it so well.

It's never done to a great extent as to why we should care as a reader doesn't do so enough time and effort to make Buttercup's death all that meaningful. The writing here is smoother and the tone and atmosphere are all in check, seemingly getting everything needed to us to care...so what happened?

The problem is simple: her death doesn't establish why it should matter. Yeah, we know they're sisters, but outside the knowledge of the episode, it wouldn't work without knowing it, rendering it a lifeless attempt to develop the situation. "The Gi: Alternate Ending" from YprocKcid isn't great, but it does establish in the beginning what happens in the episode and what is building up to give an alternate take. This doesn't as it jumps at it immediately and doesn't do much afterwards. It's like hearing someone you knew die a couple months ago. The impact isn't nearly as effective and the emotional value is down drastically.

Overall, "Ol'Buttercup" takes a death and shows how the characters are feeling and how it affects them, but sadly doesn't explain why and what lead them to it, lacking story and characater development, losing all emotional investment for the reader to care. 3/10.

Good little bit of angst. Good work.

Still better than the reboot