Fic!

[extrapenguin]

I (finally) polished up and posted the extended epilogue/sequel to Every Door a Death: Knocking on the Doors of Paradise. Ye Zun POV, smidge under 5k, will likely make little sense unless you read the 30k it's a sequel to.

I also finished my action/adventure story's first draft. It clocks in at 10k, so I'll do gross edits and then post it as two chapters while doing line edits, probably. Reader question: if you saw something tagged with Major Character Death (archive warning) and Temporary Character Death (freeform), how would you interpret that?

(Things inspiring the fic: the legend of Lemminkäinen's mother, the Babylon 5 episode Soul Hunter.)

You might also recall that I posted four ideas on what to do next in the sausage factory post. In the grand tradition of Pingu getting ideas, I'm doing none of them and instead have conceptualized something completely different. Well, the Hallows will still feature, but ... differently. >:D

Comments

[trobadora]

Reader question: if you saw something tagged with Major Character Death (archive warning) and Temporary Character Death (freeform), how would you interpret that?

I would read that as two separate things. There's a major character death, but also a temporary character death, so when someone dies in the story, you don't know which this is.

(It would make me check the end of the story before reading. If someone dies permanently, I always want to know in advance.)

[extrapenguin]

Hm. If there were a fic where a major character (for both fic and canon) temporarily dies (with both death and resurrection in-fic), how would you expect that to be tagged?

[trobadora]

Perhaps it's because I've spent too much time with Jack Harkness fic, but I don't think temporary character death needs the archive warning at all. . (Unless you want to fake out your readers.) That's thee way I understand it, and the way I've generally seen it used - the warning is for the real deal, actual death from which the character doesn't come back.

Of course if you're worried it might not be clear what you mean maybe the easiest solution is an author's note?

[extrapenguin]

Given my horrified DNW at people suggesting that I don't put the MCD warning on a fic where a major character dies, I think I'll put the warning on. (I guess it might be a different situation with e.g. Da Ji, who'll automagically come back and we all know it, but this isn't someone who regenerates/has death-cheating abilities in canon.)