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 Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:05 pm
GAH. Why do authors do this?! ;-; I've had my heart ripped out and stomped on because of this several times. Do I learn my lesson? Hell the ******** no. D:< I always fall in love with the character that's gonna die in the last book.
My favorite in Hunger Games ended up dying in Mockingjay (Who's my favorite? None of your buisness.)
One of my favorite guys ended up dying in Percy Jackson (Who DIDN'T die in the series? I made a frickin' pin with all the deceased's initals on it. D:<)
EVERYONE I LOVED IN HARRY POTTER DIED. D:<
In Everwild, my favorite...lived, actually, but that's a bad thing because in Everlost/Everwild everyone is already dead, but my favorite got brought back to life. D:<
My favorite in Gemma Doyle died.
One of my favorites in Artemis Fowl died (My all time favorite is Holly, who I like to believe in unable to die thanks to being the main character, after Artemis, and then Foaly, then Mr. I-Had-To-Get-Myself-Killed-Off.)
It's just frustrating and not okay. >:l
How often does this happen to you? If you were a writer, would you kill of a fan favorite?
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:24 pm
I hate it when that happens. I read "The Named" series and at the end my favorite character dies trying to protect the guy I hate! It was just so annoying and sad. ): Usually all the books have this, I don't know why. I guess authors just find it interesting to kill the characters to get more people to read the book, or to give the book a little twist even though people are sick of their sad and mean tricks now a days. If I was a writer, I would kill off characters like that for some of my books just to make the books a little unpredictable. I mean everyone loves an unpredictable book. I would never kill my favorite characters though. ):
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:29 pm
If I were and author, I would still kill off some of the main characters (and some of the best ones) for the main reason that i adds suspense and it makes you want to keep on reading. In one of my favorite mangas, my very favorite character ends up dieing, and the bad guy gloats about it to him as he's dieing on the floor.
HOW SCREWED UP WAS THAT?!
But, I was curious and kept on reading - primarily in hopes to see that ******* die in the end (which he does) and it ended up bringing a couple of new characters in that I really loved. Not as much as the first, of course, but....
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:34 pm
Stevie Rae in House of Night. That pissed me off. Same with Stark. Even though they came back to life.
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:35 pm
I wrote the many things that I wished for on the corner of a note
As the door was closed, and could not be opened at all In Yu Yu Hakusho, my favorite character Genkai died not once, but twice. Damn you, Togashi. emo Eventually I was left alone, unable to understand the ways of adults
As I thought, the world is still unchanged today
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:37 pm
I actually enjoy main characters being killed off. (I'm a sad person, I know.) Especially if they were doing something noble or maybe realized their past too late or something. It adds flavour to a story and reminds everyone that not everyone gets a happy ending. I'll admit, if a favourite character of mine was killed though, I'd be upset. But I'd get over it pretty quickly. Usually someone's death was not in vain... well, that is, until I run across a story where someone's death was in vain.
I know as an (amateur) writer, I have a habit of killing my main characters as soon as I develop some sort of relationship to them. I have no idea why though.
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Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:39 am
D: Holly dies in the Artemis Fowl series?!?!
noooo! i loved those books, (but i stopped reading after the fifth one sweatdrop ) i couldnt believe Julius died but Holly too?!
OMG.
i hate it when my favorite characters die in books and movies. cant stand it.
but then again, if no one dies i always find myself thinking WTF? this is impossible, theres no way that they can go through this with no one dying. so a good character dying can sometimes give it some realism.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:56 pm
X-tailerr-X D: Holly dies in the Artemis Fowl series?!?! noooo! i loved those books, (but i stopped reading after the fifth one sweatdrop ) i couldnt believe Julius died but Holly too?! OMG. i hate it when my favorite characters die in books and movies. cant stand it. but then again, if no one dies i always find myself thinking WTF? this is impossible, theres no way that they can go through this with no one dying. so a good character dying can sometimes give it some realism. Holly didn't die, don't worry! xD I was talking about Root dying, and Holly being unable to die.
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:10 pm
Ho shiz.
I read the last book in the Gemma Trilogy--at the time I had bought the book, I didn't know it was even in a trilogy, and when I found out it was I kept reading. I was devestated when Kartik sacrificed himself. The ending was so damn sad, I haven't even looked inside the book in two or so years. It's still sitting on my bookshelf, gathering dust.
I haven't finished the Artemis Fowl series--I quit reading it years ago because Root died. I. Was. Crushed.
I hate hate hate when people die in books. I always cry.
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:25 am
When I (actually get around to) write my book, I'm going to have to sacrifice some characters, and it's going to hurt so much. XD
Because usually I'd take the approach of 'sacrifice my least favourite', but then you could tell that I made this character with the sole intention of him/ her dying, so I'd have to build them up enough to love them, and then kill them, it'd be like killing a child! XP
But I am going to have to kill some characters because it's so vital to my plot D;
It doesn't bother me as much as it does some people I know, XD Having characters die in books they're reading. But then again, it hasn't come up as much as everyone else, lol.
That and I've been reading tragically nerdy non-fiction books lately, on entanglement and quantum teleportation... lolol.
I was a little sad when people started dropping like flies in Harry Potter, but I wasn't too upset. I think it'd be much harder as an author to choose who's going to live and who is not. XD
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:30 am
As long as the plot is good, I don't really care about who dies in a book. I mean, it's still sad, but I wouldn't get angry and hate the book because of it. Sometimes, the story requires a main character be killed, and the book becomes a masterpiece because of it (ever seen the movie Stranger Than Fiction?).
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