I was reading a darkness at sethanon - spoilers
One of the main characters dies suddenly, to a freak event and it was quite sad - but then, oh, it was a doppleganger who actually died
And...I've kinda just stopped. Bookmark is just sitting there in it.
There's just something sickly about not being able to have a character just die and stay dead - sure, it's sad a main character dies. Twice so to something seemingly small and a freak event. But it seems even worse to then whitewash it away! We can't even take fictional tragedy? It's not even a real person! Yet we can't take that, even in a world full of people who, even if they live to a ripe old age then die of old age, were going to have to face that? Surely we are atleast tough enough to face fictional tragedy! Gah...have stopped reading. Seems poisonous, even.