Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

--Would you ever kill off a canon character?

Oh, sure! It's not like it's permanent, after all, and there are certainly issues of dealing with grief and mortality that are compelling to write about. I do think it's a good idea to warn people so they can avoid it if they're not personally in the mood to run into those issues in a fic--and in my experience, warning people doesn't seem to lessen the impact of it at all when it happens.

I've gotten some good writing done this week! Bruce is finally mentoring his kids and that's a joy to write. :)

Comments

[prince0froses]

This question is clearly written from a fanfic perspective so I will answer it as best as I can: yes, from a narrative standpoint I have to (and they die of age eventually), but I tend to get overly attached to dead characters and try to find excuses to resurrect them and it's a damn good thing I write fantasy for that, but seriously it's a bad habit I ought to break. I have a hard time leaving people dead.

In fanfiction I'm always grateful when people warn me away from it because I'm almost never in the mood to read it.

[mithen]

Like you I'm a LOT more okay with writing stories with major character death than reading them--the only ones I've found I can handle are ones where it's canonical (I'll read Thorin/Bilbo that's canon-compliant), but even then it's not usually something I'm thrilled to read.

I confess I like your tendency to resurrect! Hey, it's a common trope in anime and manga--killing off characters, then bringing them back in some way to manage a happy ending. I never get tired of it.