After the Calling

Before I ask the question, I just wanna mention that I’m traveling for work right now, but I will be posting tommorrow hopefully eventually start giving myself realistic deadlines. (Got back home later than I thought. More tired that I thought.)  Not for the chapter unfortunately, but something you might otherwise enjoy. Or be annoyed with, I can’t judge. But thank you for your patience with me.

Okay, I don’t want anyone to take this question to mean a damn thing, NOT A DAMN THING (Penelope), it is just a question. For writers and readers alike.

When is it okay for the protagonist to die?

“Okay” Meaning, you feel the story would lose nothing/resolve conclusively/ remain enjoyable/not make you want to sit in your bathtub with gallon of gasoline and a lighter, if the protag dies.

Please

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In the future of this story two characters have a conversation. About something. At a place. Where things are happening.  And that conversation got me thinking about… stuff. This stuff might be completely banal to you, because I’m trying to get fictionally scientific, and at first I wasn’t really going to indulge my wordy theories because I was only concocting them to keep some of my story rules in check. They aren’t really going to come up, but they might be helpful to know. And I thought maybe some readers might have thought about some of what I was tossing together and could be interested in the bio-genetic flap and yap that I pulled out of thin air.

The main thought that triggered my scientific evalution was, “Jax should probably have every form of hepatitis available and Chloe should probably be on baby number 27.”

If that ever crossed your mind, you can find my convoluted explanation and subsequent rambling tangent on the origin and genetics of vampirism, here. You can thank insomnia.