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With rare exceptions, all my characters do have names even if they’re just “the cashier” in the story, and I do get attached to my characters, especially the leads, so on that rare occasion one must die, I have to remind myself it’s for the greater good of the stories/universe. A lead’s death generally has a point to be made, a reason it’s being done. In my original universe, death is permanent, the character cannot generally appear in another story after said date. (Dreams/nightmares/etc in the living are the exception to that). Of course, characters that are presumed to be dead … ie, missing, or mistaken postmortem identification … different matter entirely, because that can be fun, like my 2015 halloween story can attest to. Most gruesome/grizzly death written by me (for any character, lead or minor) has to be the woodchipper. Most gore, I’m thinking my 2017 halloween story. Now this has me thinking about my unfinished Harry Potter story… that had a bunch of deaths, but at least that Weasley herd was getting thinned a bit.