I mean, that kind of thing is pretty much canon to a lot of shows... No, it really doesn't make any sense, but they also didn't exactly come up with the idea themselves.
finally, after like a year of being too unmedicated and depressed i begin to write the third chapter of breaking eggshells.I am deliberately misunderstanding this to imply you are complaining that you have spontaneously discovered that the fic you are writing became porn without your awareness or intention, thank you.
What do you consider no reason? Because I have a tendancy to kill off/put on a bus, characters that don't matter to the story I want to tell. I try to make sure those deaths have an impact on other characters/the narrative. But I do like clearing some of the board after a few arcs of adding in extra characters.
I mean stuff like a character dying purely because that character died in canon, or the author killing off a character before the story even starts to "make room" for another character (particularly if there's a very obvious alternative).
Following your example it honestly depends if sakura's death has any impact on Naruto
Counterpoint: it is marvel NYC; every week there is some mayor shit going on, people have their own bunkers and someone even managed to snag actual teleporter from some defeated villains /j
It is my biggest pet peeve after reading Iron Wood, i was so interested in the story it killed a part of me when the undersiders for some reason followed the stations of canon for...shit and giggles?
I'd like to point out that tags are subjective, added manually, and are rarely religiously added; a lot of authours slap a few tags that their work includes and that they know in that moment of time are searched, therefore older fics might simply be missing the tag because it was unnecessary or maybe it wasn't even created yet, or maybe the authour didn't even think about adding it.
Isn't that a pretty good premise for a fanfic, though? "What if this character had died as a child and someone else had to take their place on the protagonists' team? What would this change?" I don't really see anything wrong with that, per se.
I could see your example being used for both scenarios.
If I understand correctly, it's about the why you kill that character off. If you just don't want to use a character, you don't nescesarily need to kill them to exclude them from a story. And with certain characters like Sakura, killing them off could be seen by readers as hating on a character (Especially if it seems like it was done for no reason). I think if you want to keep fans of the character you killed off, reading your story, you need to have that death have a narrative reason. Otherwise, just put the character on a bus.
I expect that that premise falls into the category "if it's done well, it'll be interesting/good"*. It can be good, but I expect that most of the times the answer to that question would be "they'd get replaced by my awesome OC/SI and everything would be better". The focus is likely not on the dead character and the aftershocks from said early death, but all about the new character.
I'll take it a step further: if your SI/OC fic starts in any way or fashion with either showing some omnipotent god character referred to as ROB, or has the MC cursing them out, there's a good 95% chance I'm dropping your fic right then and there. Life is too short to bother going past a shitty ROB opening in the already mostly garbage genre that is SI fics.
Yeah, but if it were any of that, then the death would have happened for a reason. This peeve is for when there's no reason for the character to have to die. Going back to my hypothetical, if "Sakura died" could be replaced with "Sakura dropped out of the academy" and it wouldn't change anything, then Sakura's death was pointless.
So the main issue is that a ROB functionally drops out of the story before it starts, thus rendering their presence unneeded? Would making the entity either more lore-relevant and/or more active in directing the main character fix this issue?
