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Finished The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents last night. I did, in fact, cry. And Terry Pratchett continues to be brilliant. You are the weirdest person ever, Pyrae.
Barring that, ohgodiamsoobsessed. I listened to my new Avril Lavigne CD last night and for at least half of the songs I was thinking about how that so relates to my main characters. Stupid main characters. They won't get out of my head even though their story is finished. And, oh yeah, they're dead. *mutters angrily*
I don't want to write chapter eight. I think I'll skip it and go straight to the part with the prostitutes.
Is it morbid that I talk about this every other day?
Anyway, yes. I just want to rant for awhile about this one death in the trilogy, which occurs toward the end of the first book.
See, the thing is that usually when important characters die, they do it for some grand cause, or through noble self-sacrifice. But this death isn't like that. This is a horrible, random accident with no great meaning in the scope of The Quest. Its only function is to shock the characters into realizing how horribly serious it all is. And also, Elliott and Seth get to fight again. But not the point, not the point.
And therein lies the problem. When I told Elizabeth that her favorite character was going to die, she almost started crying. Then I informed her that he dies through the aforementioned noble self-sacrifice. Her exact words were, I believe, "Oh, that's so sweet! So that's all right, then."
Now, the character I shall be killing off whose death I am ranting about (and who shall remain nameless, because how much to I like to torture my friends?) doesn't get any of that. She doesn't get the "she died saving the world from Death" or any of that. It was a stupid, stupid accident that accomplished nothing for the plot, only it stays in the story because it's very necessary for character development. So I'm a bit worried about audience reaction. I'm not trying to cheapen it, but the fact is that no matter how I present it, it is cheap.
And this is where I envy Terry Pratchett, you see. Because even the characters he kills off who don't get to utter some meaningful last words ("Don't eat the green wobbly bit") do get to talk to Death, and that's kind of our last glimpse of them. How utterly perfect was the end of Small Gods? And I can't do that because Death is not my character and anyway my Dead King is busy at the time with murdering his Most Faithful Servant so he can use her body for his own nefarious purposes. (Minds out of the gutter, please.) So, yes. I had no point when I started this. I still don't. I shall just go and agonize in private now.
ETA: Grandpa is supposed to be picking Jenna up from school in an hour.
But she is not at school.
She is here.
Why is this?
NO ONE TELLS ME ANYTHING.
Barring that, ohgodiamsoobsessed. I listened to my new Avril Lavigne CD last night and for at least half of the songs I was thinking about how that so relates to my main characters. Stupid main characters. They won't get out of my head even though their story is finished. And, oh yeah, they're dead. *mutters angrily*
I don't want to write chapter eight. I think I'll skip it and go straight to the part with the prostitutes.
Is it morbid that I talk about this every other day?
Anyway, yes. I just want to rant for awhile about this one death in the trilogy, which occurs toward the end of the first book.
See, the thing is that usually when important characters die, they do it for some grand cause, or through noble self-sacrifice. But this death isn't like that. This is a horrible, random accident with no great meaning in the scope of The Quest. Its only function is to shock the characters into realizing how horribly serious it all is. And also, Elliott and Seth get to fight again. But not the point, not the point.
And therein lies the problem. When I told Elizabeth that her favorite character was going to die, she almost started crying. Then I informed her that he dies through the aforementioned noble self-sacrifice. Her exact words were, I believe, "Oh, that's so sweet! So that's all right, then."
Now, the character I shall be killing off whose death I am ranting about (and who shall remain nameless, because how much to I like to torture my friends?) doesn't get any of that. She doesn't get the "she died saving the world from Death" or any of that. It was a stupid, stupid accident that accomplished nothing for the plot, only it stays in the story because it's very necessary for character development. So I'm a bit worried about audience reaction. I'm not trying to cheapen it, but the fact is that no matter how I present it, it is cheap.
And this is where I envy Terry Pratchett, you see. Because even the characters he kills off who don't get to utter some meaningful last words ("Don't eat the green wobbly bit") do get to talk to Death, and that's kind of our last glimpse of them. How utterly perfect was the end of Small Gods? And I can't do that because Death is not my character and anyway my Dead King is busy at the time with murdering his Most Faithful Servant so he can use her body for his own nefarious purposes. (Minds out of the gutter, please.) So, yes. I had no point when I started this. I still don't. I shall just go and agonize in private now.
ETA: Grandpa is supposed to be picking Jenna up from school in an hour.
But she is not at school.
She is here.
Why is this?
NO ONE TELLS ME ANYTHING.
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This is, of course, overlooking the fact that most of my stories thus far have been about assassins and the lives they lead, which may have something to do with all the death.
Anyway, the point is, I understand this debate, and feel you're definitely doing the right thing by allowing this sort of plot point to be an option. *sigh* But yes, Pterry did take the best method as his own.