Character death (spoilers for X, Gankutsuou, BtVS and ASOIAF)
One of the funny thing with HP7 release date's annuncement is how everyone is making angsty posts at their journal telling about their fear about the death of a favourite character (Snape, Remus, Lucius, Draco, Harry, what have you...)
I'm a bit surprised by how many people seem to fear such a thing. There's lots of characters I love but I don't think I'd mind seeing them die in a book all that much. Not as long as the character death was cool.
I think, part of it at least is that I love character death as a scene. They're hot, high in emotions, high in symbol, and well done can be absolutly beautiful.
One of the only BtVS episode to which I cried was Becoming, for exemple, not because I liked the pairing (I don't), not because I'm such a big fan (I was a casual viewer at that time), merely because it hit me hard on that kink. A good character death (who cares if he didn't stay dead).
The first fic I wrote (which was in BtVS) was a death fic.
Then there's Tokyo Babylon which plays the character death thing to perfection. Rainbow Bridge is one of my favourite scene in the whole world (and the Hokuto's death echo too!!). It's bloody sexy and gorgeous. It's not a death scene, it's a sex scene. It's everything I love about Seishirou and Subaru including the non existence of the word "love".
When I was reading ASOIAF I was never bothered by the death of character. Always felt a bit befuddled hearing people sa they threw out their book against when various characters whom they happened to adore died. I adored Oberyn's character, he's the sexisest of the novels, but when he died I was loving it because of how great the scene was. (So much for the Princess Bride...)
There's other characters whom I love who died. And make no mistake, I was moved. Occasionnaly I was weeping. But it always made me like the story (and the character!) more for it. Franz' death makes the whole character in Gankutsuou for exemple.
So yeah, a character death is the least thing I fear.
What I do fear is messing up with the characterization. When the plot becomes lame and clichéed. When it makes a character lose their appeal like Spike lost his appeal for me during Season 7. His death (quite a boring death, too!! not one I found hot) was just a cherry on the top of that loss of appeal.
So what do I fear for Book7? Mostly I fear silly characterization about my favourite characters that won't be easily fixed. Specific canon facts that will contradict future fics I won't have time to finish before June. And Severus/Lily *shudders*
Then again, last time the only thing I was fearing was JKR messing up with my idea of Regulus and then she did, but I loved it XD
I just hope I won't be disapointed.
But she can kill anyone she wants as far as I'm concerned.
Especially if the death is cool
*waves Bring on the Angst flag*
I'm a bit surprised by how many people seem to fear such a thing. There's lots of characters I love but I don't think I'd mind seeing them die in a book all that much. Not as long as the character death was cool.
I think, part of it at least is that I love character death as a scene. They're hot, high in emotions, high in symbol, and well done can be absolutly beautiful.
One of the only BtVS episode to which I cried was Becoming, for exemple, not because I liked the pairing (I don't), not because I'm such a big fan (I was a casual viewer at that time), merely because it hit me hard on that kink. A good character death (who cares if he didn't stay dead).
The first fic I wrote (which was in BtVS) was a death fic.
Then there's Tokyo Babylon which plays the character death thing to perfection. Rainbow Bridge is one of my favourite scene in the whole world (and the Hokuto's death echo too!!). It's bloody sexy and gorgeous. It's not a death scene, it's a sex scene. It's everything I love about Seishirou and Subaru including the non existence of the word "love".
When I was reading ASOIAF I was never bothered by the death of character. Always felt a bit befuddled hearing people sa they threw out their book against when various characters whom they happened to adore died. I adored Oberyn's character, he's the sexisest of the novels, but when he died I was loving it because of how great the scene was. (So much for the Princess Bride...)
There's other characters whom I love who died. And make no mistake, I was moved. Occasionnaly I was weeping. But it always made me like the story (and the character!) more for it. Franz' death makes the whole character in Gankutsuou for exemple.
So yeah, a character death is the least thing I fear.
What I do fear is messing up with the characterization. When the plot becomes lame and clichéed. When it makes a character lose their appeal like Spike lost his appeal for me during Season 7. His death (quite a boring death, too!! not one I found hot) was just a cherry on the top of that loss of appeal.
So what do I fear for Book7? Mostly I fear silly characterization about my favourite characters that won't be easily fixed. Specific canon facts that will contradict future fics I won't have time to finish before June. And Severus/Lily *shudders*
Then again, last time the only thing I was fearing was JKR messing up with my idea of Regulus and then she did, but I loved it XD
I just hope I won't be disapointed.
But she can kill anyone she wants as far as I'm concerned.
Especially if the death is cool
*waves Bring on the Angst flag*