This is super cheesy, but your old post about no longer feeling pressure to put your OCs through the Worst Shit has drastically changed my storytelling, so that's something I associate with you. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
that’s not cheesy at all. i’m surprised i didn’t delete it, i usually chicken out when it comes to posting writing opinions. [or did i? when did i even post it? i can’t remember. oh well.]
i guess at the end of the day people have different relationships with their characters, and they may be using their characters’ stories to work through different things. plenty of people go to the other end and want escapism instead, but who knows? they might write a character with a sad backstory to process something sad in their real life.
i just don’t think anybody needs to do it for the sake of edginess being deep, that’s all. @theivorytowercrumbles has written some posts about “killing off less characters in stories” and “doing character death for a reason” that i really enjoy.
