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@myclipboardismyviolin, @nuetrobolt, @ashira, ooh a debate. please carry on as far as possible because this will help me decide. (I figure things out by debating. My sister will come into my room, give me a topic and a side to debate, and we’ll both debate until whoever needed a decision had made it)

Throne Warden, its true, not everyone dies in the real world. But this isn’t set in a real world. Its set in a world where sacrificial death of children is a common practice. In the Old Testament this very subject was dealt with tons of times. In fact, many kings and nations were destroyed and cursed because they did this. I get what you’re saying about how it would ruin the book for you, and that is something to consider. If I follow down that path, I wouldn’t want my younger sisters to read it until they were at least 16. I don’t know how old you are, and so I’m not going to be presumptuous in that. I know tons of adults who also wouldn’t want to read something like that. But the point remains that evil exists in the world, and killing off a child is something everyone can agree is evil. I’m going to be dealing with subtle evil as well, but this blatant evil is critical.

Ashira, you gave a very good argument. Seeing as how if I do kill her off I’ll end up probably failing at doing it justice, I now feel like I have a lot to live up to.

My Clipboard is My Violin, first of all, I play the violin too! So yes, there would be a reason for her to die. I hate it when writers kill off characters for no reason other than to move the plot along. At the very beginning of the story you find out that she is supposed to die if Jycin doesn’t do what the villains want. He runs away with her instead, so basically her dying would fulfill the statement at the beginning. There are other reasons also, but I don’t want to give too much away. I briefly looked into having Jycin sacrifice himself for her, but I didn’t like any of the plot ideas that came if that happened so I had to throw that idea out. I disagree that my writing is to serve the reader. I think that what I write is something that means something to me, and so if it means something to someone else, they’ll read it. I tried to write for the reader once, and my story became very flat. It didn’t have anything of import in it because I was  worried about what the reader might think.

@i-david, well, prompts are always nice too. I mean, its not like I have a ton of story ideas already *pushes notebook full of just that aside*