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Your Character’s Ending

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Pal Veda

A L P H A
Pal Veda
Character Bio
Have you ever considered how your character will end their journey? Ever plan to kill them off? Plan for them to retire and settle down with a nice family on a farm? Never even thought about? Curious what everyone has to say. Except Alan Alan since I know he just kills off his characters, although some in epic heroic ways.

For Pal, I always figured he would try to segue out of the pew pew lifestyle but never truly escape. I think of him as a survivor, though. While all the Jedi and Sith are hacking each other to pieces, all the Alliance and Republic troopers and Imps gunning each other down, Pal is able to evade it all.

For Hwo, I don’t think I can ever kill him off. He has always been the good guy, always done the right thing, always been a loyal Jedi. I would like to think he is rewarded for that with an eventual life of peace and solitude in his old age.

I’m not attached to any other characters I have ever written and honestly never considered how their story would end. Kryos is a bad guy that is seeking out fights, so I am sure that will catch up with him at some point.
 

Kitter Bitters

Trying Hard Not to Flake
Kitter Bitters
I’ve only ever planned the death of one of my characters. She’s going out in a blaze of glory. The others I’ve just been going with the flow ^___^

I had a funeral for Kat one time. Cause of death was drinking spoiled blue milk. Turns out it was a ruse by a cult to make the galaxy think she was dead. But before that people were super like what???

Realistically though SOMEONE is out there dying in an accident. Someone has to get locked in a space porta john and suffocate or trip and fall down the stairs. Thats how the galaxy works lol
 
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Ronhar Tane

Salvage Team Six
Ronhar Tane
Character Bio
Honestly, I haven't really thought about it. But, if I ever do end up killing off my character, it will be because he becomes disillusioned with what he's doing and what he's fighting for. After all, you can dress it up any way you want, but at the end of the day an Imp is an Imp, and the way things are going, sooner or later Ronhar's gonna have to reconcile what he's doing with the way it affects the galaxy...
 
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Alan

far out, man
Alan
Man FUCK them kids.

See here's my two cents on why I kill off characters:

They die in the movies. Han Solo, Obi-Wan, Darth Vader, they all die, their character arcs end. At some point character arcs end or they die off. People don't do the same thing forever and in a writing setting, a logical end is befitting 99.999% of characters. I think also people who afraid to kill off or end character storylines are frankly afraid to do new things and are limiting themselves.

Make them die, make them die in a way befitting their characters or end their stories and start something new. Sure, it's nice to have a character that's been around for almost two decades, but the idea of writing the same character for years and years without an end seems exhausting and limiting. And maybe that's me saying it, maybe I'm right, maybe I'm not I dunno. But at a certain point if your character has been around for 20 years, what's there left to tell in their story? What's new?

Seems like there's quite a few characters on Chaos that are simply storytelling vehicles for the writer to experience OTHER people's characters and OTHER people's writings rather than new and fresh ideas. No, I have not killed off very old characters but they're very much retired in-character. Tracyn for example, lives somewhere quietly with Asha. You don't need to kill off your characters, but maybe it's a good idea to kill off your ability to write them more and challenge yourself. Personally, if you aren't writing new things and just using the same character over and over again, you're limiting yourself as a writer and as a person. Over time, roleplay characters become more like plot devices than they do actual characters, especially in something like Chaos. I think that by constantly moving forward, you advance yourself as a writer, as a roleplayer, as a member of the community, and not hold onto age-old gripes and factions and storylines.

And frankly, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me for some of these long-standing characters to still exist logically. At some point, every Star Wars hero and villain dies. Especially Jedi and Sith! It's called Star WARS not Star LIVE-FOREVER-AND-JUST-KEEP-GOING-FOREVER. Give them a villain's death, a hero's death, a journey's end. Every single Star Wars character ended in some capacity, some better than others.

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Jonyna Si

The Eye of the Storm
Jonyna Si
Character Bio
Oh, I planned Jonyna's end from the moment I joined Chaos. Whenever I think her story is over, I'll happily end it.

She's either gonna end up:

A. bartending on Coruscant, waiting for the next invasion so she can pull her sword off the wall, slaughter some baddies, then put it back and go to bartending.

B. Dead at the hands of someone I think deserves it. Someone who is easy to work with, but deserves the street cred. I'm an old school wrestling fan, and firmly believe that the old should help prop up the new.

Or C. Retired on Cathar. Living a good life.
 
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