I frequently kill characters in epilogues.
Let's flash back to fall of 2005. A close family member died, and though I was a wreck, I refused to talk much about it with people, saying instead that I expressed things through killing characters, and I already had plans for a character in CotA. Um...well, surprise. It was either this, or I let Rune and Dez's fate be what it was in the second last chapter of Catharsis, but I'd already put Eve though hell, and decided she deserved a happy ending. Not that these characters don't deserve a happy ending...but I do have a point to the death. It was “offscreen,” and didn't occur during a heroic moment. There were no last goodbyes, no music swelling with emotion in the background. The main point is that it was pointless and tragic and unnecessary. Though characters will change as a result of it and the events of this chapter will directly impact the lives of the characters for the rest of the book, their lives would never be the same anyway after Chapter Eleven, so I didn't actually have to do this.
And the final scene was added because I decided to explain what Gen had done to the people in the previous chapter (though I think you all already guessed), and because although I completed the main story arc for Part One, I kind of wanted to leave it on something random to set the stage for Part Two.
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"She wrapped evil around her like a large, evil Mexican serape."
Author Commentary
I frequently kill characters in epilogues.
Let's flash back to fall of 2005. A close family member died, and though I was a wreck, I refused to talk much about it with people, saying instead that I expressed things through killing characters, and I already had plans for a character in CotA. Um...well, surprise. It was either this, or I let Rune and Dez's fate be what it was in the second last chapter of Catharsis, but I'd already put Eve though hell, and decided she deserved a happy ending. Not that these characters don't deserve a happy ending...but I do have a point to the death. It was “offscreen,” and didn't occur during a heroic moment. There were no last goodbyes, no music swelling with emotion in the background. The main point is that it was pointless and tragic and unnecessary. Though characters will change as a result of it and the events of this chapter will directly impact the lives of the characters for the rest of the book, their lives would never be the same anyway after Chapter Eleven, so I didn't actually have to do this.
And the final scene was added because I decided to explain what Gen had done to the people in the previous chapter (though I think you all already guessed), and because although I completed the main story arc for Part One, I kind of wanted to leave it on something random to set the stage for Part Two.
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"She wrapped evil around her like a large, evil Mexican serape."