Sooooo. Not that this is a spoiler or anything, but I do have a certain…tendency in my writing.
Question 111: How do you (or would you) feel when you kill a main character?
First, I laugh maniacally. Second, I think of how my beta readers (and then my actual readers) will take it. Then I laugh maniacally again, while trying to figure out how best to defend myself from irate friends/coworkers/fans. …Seriously, I kill a lot of characters.
That said, I hate nothing more than a pointless death, even if pointlessness is a large part of realism. And while I also hate the trope of people coming back from the dead all willy-nilly like in the superhero comics of yesteryear, death on Halci isn’t always as permanent as it looks — what with the skinchangers’ spirits, the elementals’ primordials and the wraiths’ bodiless immortality, among other things. So death is an ending, but it’s not always The End.
The War of Memory Project 