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Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:11 pm

I'd never kill any of them off...

...because I'm attached to them, but it's also just to dark and depressing thing to happen my comic. If I don't like a character I'll just write them out somehow without killing them.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:38 pm

Most of my characters are already dead though....

Oh, you mean completely dead? :p

Well, the overall plot does arc towards a character death to wrap it all up. But apart from that, Legion Inc. really isn't that sort of comic. When people die in Legion inc., Death turns up and swears at them for a bit. I aim to diffuse any angst with a healthy helping of farce.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:51 pm

Some of my characters live to be killed off.

Princess · Post by **Princess** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:54 pm

Vorticus wrote:My characters have a looney toons level of resilience and killing any of them off really wouldn't fit with the style or tone of the comic.

Ditto, those little bastards are like cockroaches

Lady Blue · Post by **Lady Blue** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:58 pm

I plan on killing off several minor characters, and at least two main characters, though there's a possibility of there being a third death if I change my mind (again) about the plot.
Doesn't mean I wont miss them, though. I get crazily attached to my characters very quickly, and already dread when I'll have to draw those death scenes. (Also, I can't draw blood. Makes having a comic that takes place durring a war rather difficult.

Anywho...)

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:05 pm

i killed off a character before the story even started...

oddly enough he is my favorite now.

Pounce · Post by **Pounce** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:08 pm

Duchess is about living under strange circumstances and the consequences of the choices you make. I suppose non of my characters are invincable and should the story call for it they'll die. But I think Amelia, Azom and Brune are probably safe. Maybe... Dang it now you got me thinking about it...

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:55 pm

Jackhass wrote:I'd never kill any of them off...

...because I'm attached to them, but it's also just to dark and depressing thing to happen my comic. If I don't like a character I'll just write them out somehow without killing them.

You could stop writing about them like that Lyman guy. After a few years, people will be like, "Hey, where did he go?"

BKR · Post by **BKR** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:10 pm

It's funny because just before reading this thread I was making the panel where one of the main characters gets a fatal wound.

Anyway, I seem to be attracted to tragedy over the last few years, so my of my stories tend to involve someone on the "good side" getting killed. In fact, in a game I've been making for some time, almost everyone dies (good and bad sides included) - and not in the "I sacrificed myself to save the rest of you" kind of way, usually far from it.

As with the others here, a character's death would have to be of value to the storyline for me to do it. With that said though, I would say that it's very likely the main characters of my stories will die, much more so than most. I still like them very much and am attached to them mind you, but their death can add so much more to their story.

Corgan_dane · Post by **Corgan_dane** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:31 pm

I would never kill a beloved character!

Berg · Post by **Berg** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:33 pm

The only (human) character I killed off in my current comic was Santa Claus, but he was really just a recurring character. I'm not planning on killing off one of my main characters. Mostly because my comic is primarily a gag-a-day thing, and to start killing people off for the sake of dramatic effect would only come across as the lazy writing it would've been.

Not that my writing isn't lazy.

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:47 pm

Mercury Hat wrote:Depends if it fits in the story or not. I've written stuff in the past where a main character bites it, but I'd need a good reason. Not just to force character development through angst or something.

Merc should totally kill off Greg, he's a woss.

PS, I really do love you Merc hee hee hee

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:19 pm

I do what needs to be done according to the story, basically. If things get bad enough then it's unreasonable to come out without some sort of tragedy. I quite like giving people serious wounds, myself. On character lost a good chunk of her hearing, another was crippled, a third paralysed and so forth. Stories don't do that sort of thing much.

My worst story was about huamns meeting a primitive alien species trying oh, so hard to keep it peaceful (since we failed every time here on Earth). Naturally the end of that story just had to be war and the deaths of the humans. Only way it could work.

On the other hand, I've chickened out once with a character named Kate who I liked too much to kill. She was left in a coma.

- Joel Fagin

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:15 pm

PeppermintAfterlife wrote:
Jackhass wrote:I'd never kill any of them off...

...because I'm attached to them, but it's also just to dark and depressing thing to happen my comic. If I don't like a character I'll just write them out somehow without killing them.
You could stop writing about them like that Lyman guy. After a few years, people will be like, "Hey, where did he go?"

That's probably what I do...just quietly stop writing about them. No need to kill them off. I mean, who knows when you might have the itch to use a character again someday even if you have no interest in it at the moment?

Just look at comic books...it's become a joke now how every character who dies comes back to life. Mainly because writers keep thoughtlessly killing good characters that still have good stories in them.

Axonite · Post by **Axonite** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:19 pm

I don't think I've killed any characters off in Station V3 - I have had some go missing for a while, though, and the station's blown up twice so far.

In Z7, they thought they had accidentally erased an entire universe, but that turned out not to be the case.

834n · Post by **834n** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:21 pm

corgan_dane wrote:I would never kill a beloved character!

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:21 pm

axonite wrote:I don't think I've killed any characters off in Station V3 - I have had some go missing for a while, though, and the station's blown up twice so far.

In Z7, they thought they had accidentally erased an entire universe, but that turned out not to be the case.

[Imagines Ebb dead...his dot eyes turned to little Xs]...it can't happen!

Sorcery101 · Post by **Sorcery101** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:25 pm

I'm going to kill two of the main 6 characters and at least 2 minor characters (that 2nd number is subject to change though.)

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:34 pm

Already killed one. More are going to go down before the story's over.

Be cruel to your characters! Beat them with bricks and baseball bats! Make their lives miserable -- it makes for better stories if you, as an author, are a sadist!

Shishio · Post by **Shishio** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:54 pm

Considering the nature of my comic, killing a character would mean commiting murder or suicide.

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