What is HE and BE? QAQ

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  1. PsychoticEden

    PsychoticEden Active Member

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    Hello all!
    I just need a little bit of help. Recently, I've been going around and reading tons and tons of novels but I've noticed that the summary/description almost always has these two, two-lettered words. BE and He?

    I don't know what they mean QAQ.

    Please tell me QAQ
     
  2. TamaSaga

    TamaSaga Well-Known Member

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    Bad end and hell end?
     
  3. IamSoBored123

    IamSoBored123 Well-Known Member

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    Bad ending and happy ending... I think?
     
  4. PsychoticEden

    PsychoticEden Active Member

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    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Though the meaning isn't so delightful, thank you for clarifying. I've been so confused

    I see, thanks for the clarification!
     
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  5. Bad Storm

    Bad Storm no thought, head empty

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    LMAO, so no happy ending in you dictionary?
     
  6. Rilise

    Rilise Aestivating

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    My sister and I have a saying: "Happy End is a delayed Bad End." Courtesy to Corpse Party.
     
  7. lilly2805

    lilly2805 Well-Known Member

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    It's BE for bad ending and HE for happy ending, sometimes in novel descriptions they will tell you that it is a HE and that tells you that there will be a happy ending to the story. The same goes for the other side, the story will end in a bad ending if it says BE.
     
  8. Bad Storm

    Bad Storm no thought, head empty

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    I remember a quote from a book called "Blackout" by Mira Grant.

    This is as close as we could get to an ending. The world goes on. Zombies or no zombies, political conspiracy or no political conspiracy, the world goes on.
    I think I like it that way.

    -Georgia Mason

    I don't there are really endings, happy or otherwise.
     
  9. MisterBubbles

    MisterBubbles [The Omnipotent No. 2 at Everything]

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    Yeah it is Happy End and Bad End. They mostly tag that on angst/tragedy/psychological novels, but I do see it on romance ones, too. However, I also think it is a translator (individual/site) preference to tag those things as well.
     
  10. Yaoikun

    Yaoikun The other Red Siblings | Cursed Black Knight

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    Hippie end and baddie end
     
  11. nyamachi

    nyamachi [Chaos Twin :3] [Melo fanclub member]

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    HE = happy ending, BE = bad ending, FYI OE = open ending~