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I would kill the dad instead. 😛 Him dying to save his daughter would be more poignant than dark.

But I think the whole premise of this topic is flawed. Is this death logically going to happen? Does the evil of the story have a reason to kill the little girl, specifically, or is this an accident? The idea of a writer randomly throwing death into the story to serve themselves doesn’t sit well with me. You need to think about the WHY of the story in terms of why the evil bad guys do what they do, why the good guys do what they do, etc, and go deeper into your notes.

Ultimately, your writing needs to serve your readers. Who are you writing this story for? Why are you writing this? That decides the characters’ reasons why they do things, which then has a massive impact on the answer to the question. Once you’ve established the reasoning, you then need to establish the abilities of the father to save the girl and his interest in doing so versus the abilities and interest of the malevolent force trying to kill her. That will decide the question.