@Askier, that's why I focus on at least a bare-minimum OOC. Death can and usually is unexpected, unless we're going to debate if Eorzea has policies on euthanasia. But at the same time, I don't think people are asking for loads of detail, but something like a heads up. "Hey, my character has a chance of dying in this arc. If things go that way, I'm going to roll with it." Like RPing a White Mage or other heavily debated topics, I don't think killing off ones character is something everyone should do. How someone dies is perhaps more important to the story than when or where someone dies. If it's poorly executed (sorry, I tried. After four attempts of rephrasing, I couldn't find any better words), then it's not the death that causes issues but the aftermath. Just like how people usually aren't planning to accommodate death on any day of the week, other RPers aren't planning on their contacts suddenly disappearing or dying with nothing to go for it.
But the thing with character death is that it does kill IC connections. While OOC ones may still be there, a given arc isn't suddenly paused or restarted to reboot IC connections halfway through.
And how many times has Jin'li been killed? :p
But the thing with character death is that it does kill IC connections. While OOC ones may still be there, a given arc isn't suddenly paused or restarted to reboot IC connections halfway through.
And how many times has Jin'li been killed? :p
