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Caspar · **04-07-2016, 04:32 PM**

(04-07-2016, 04:25 PM)GhostlyMaiden Wrote: Both of my characters weren't written with the intention of being killed off. However, RP happens and certain events may occur where I'm leaving the possibility under consideration. I've done some thinking and with recent events in the RP world, and I have begun writing a plot which will possibly end with said character being written off.

I say possibly because, I want the people who will be involve to have more control of the plot then they think. Laying out three possible outcomes based on their actions. Â This way, it also prepares me to make sure "Am I truly ready to do this?".

If i'm going to write off a character, I want there to be a good story behind it. Not something that's just "Oh, she was robbed and it went horribly wrong".

Yeah, it feels like a waste when it's just like "So and so fell off a cliff." Really? All that RP for an anticlimax? Sure these things happen in real life, but this is fiction. Where's the pathos? The story remains an incomplete circle and in some cases that can be fascinating, but it is that meaningless chaos inherent in the struggle of real life that drives people to write fiction in the first place.

The one thing I can't abide is disrespectful character death where people laugh at the emotional investment of others in their character, who mattered more to outsiders than the writer. I've seen it before in OOC discussions and I felt that was remarkably callous.

[Discussion] Do You Plan to Kill Off Your Character?

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