#but tbh i'm only banking on oliver or ethan dying

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greater boston characters with death flags (amount of which in no particular order:

ETHAN:

implied to have been killed by emily in an episode, after several episodes spent emphasizing the degrading of their marriage and the building frustration emily has with him.

additionally. these feelings worsen exponentially after his disappearing, with emily even declaring that she’ll “make him pay” when he comes back. her mental state heavily deteriorates leading up to his reappearance, even leading her to pretend that a robot of ethan is the real ethan.

she does a full 180 when he actually does return, but he’s still entirely not receptive of her. the resentment builds again.

also, he functions as a dark mirror to leon, a character who is dead. character arc irrelevant, therefore disposable.

OLIVER:

has an entire arc centering around him being/becoming “legally dead.” it is constantly said that oliver west is dead, and characters constantly refer to him as “the late oliver west” in a number of ways.

additionally phil comments. “uncle ollie, you do this and you are really, truly legal dead. what will that mean for ada?”

his wife and kid don’t know about all of this yet, and by the time the news reaches them, the lie may very well have become the truth.

oliver’s character arc could be satisfactorily completed in this way, considering the setup for a downfall.

DIMITRI:

character centered around doing dangerous and reckless things, nearly getting himself killed several times. even with his character development, this trait of his remains a part of his character, and other character’s frustration with him continues to grow in this avenue. possible that he could actually die for real as a result.

additionally, it would serve as a comparison to his brother, and would worsen nica’s state, something the creators have stated will be happening in season 4.

however, although his character arc is completed, he’s still being set up to at least see leon again, lowering his chances of truly dying.

MICHAEL:

nearly starved to death in oliver’s office and wrote a plethora of farewell letters to everyone he loves. he was saved at the last second by dimitri. the letters still got out, touching the heart of most recipients, but tinged with a sense of irony, since michael’s entirely fine.

would be double ironic if he ultimately does die not long after writing the letters. louisa’s hesitance in opening her letter and “meeting the version of you who i couldn’t save” and wanting to spend “a little more time with the one who IS here before i can even begin to introduce myself to the one who almost didn’t,” would be near comically tragic if she was forced to meet that version of him anyway.

additionally, he claims that he feels like he was “infected with not existing” and that nothing seems important anymore. telling louisa that the letters were “the last thing he wrote.” with him fully saying that to mean “the last thing he wrote (before he died)” as opposed to “the last thing thing he wrote (as of yet)”, given that he has written several things since then.

however, the writers love him and constantly talk about him in a positive light surrounding his recovery, so they probably wouldn’t do that to him.

LEON:

dead.

additionally, he’s dead.

however, he’s dead.