Top 10 Ways to Kill Off a Book Character
My sixtieth list is inspired by my first. What fun! This was originally going to be made ten lists ago. No, this isn't a copy. It doesn't have an assigned emotion.Works especially well for morally conflicted characters.
James and Lily Potter, for example.
In the Novel I am planning to write the main character is killed off at the end but it's a mix of half this list He is like an extremist and wants to change the kingdom he lives in from it corrupt ways so he helps the evil dragon king take over his entire kingdom and slaughters all the corrupt people in power. But he spends a lot of the time trying to ensure the best outcome after the war is finished and coaches the dragon prince who is the most moral character in the story to be king after they overthrow the human king and he also kills of all the dragon's evil leaders behind the scenes. So in his world, he does some of the most terrible things but he is not an evil person deep down and only wants to protect his kingdom. ANYWAYS at the end he is at a standoff with the human prince who is also a moral character (And they have this weird relationship were they fight against each other and hate the way that each other view the worlds but see the good in each other and they both want to ...more
I want to use a Wings of Fire quote. I'll be back.
Again, a slice of real life. Oh, the nostalgia.
Who said we were talking about the protagonist?
It's happening at some point in my writing.
It depends. If the setting and plot call for crime, crime comes knocking.
Yeah uh *Ahem*
I have my character get dynamite shoved down his thout to where he explodes...
Interesting.
Just don't ask
Darkly humorous because, well, they ARE being killed.