Night Lights, Part 9
Aug15
on August 15, 2013
at 12:00 am
Chapter: Day 16, Month of Cold Winds, 6563
Characters: Ian Caladharas, Julia Wells (Caladharas)
Requiem: Silence
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Killing him off would have allowed the story to unfold without people asking about him…and REALLY would have put the onus on the characters to figure things out for themselves. Every time I think about it, I get a little more mad at myself for not doing it.
Ahhhh well…. 🙁
Please don’t kill him off, the suspense of his ambiguous existence actually adds to the story and he could still be useful 😉
It’s no problem. 🙂
The scenario you described is pretty close to the way it was going to happen actually. Him coming across the water, coming to the shore…and finding out that the world had ended and he had missed it.;)
James, even if you’d killed grandad, some readers would be asking about granpa’s files and his safety deposit boxes… and what he told grandma over pillow talk, and….
But leaving him alive ’til the epilogue….that’s where the mistake happened, It leaves that really big thread out there…which was supposed to resolved in the conclusion/epilogue of everything.
But he’s till out there though…and when you compound that with the fact that this comic has ran for a long time, and people tend to think that more time has passed in world than actually has….it turns the whole thing into a gigantic f#@! up on my part.
In an alternate universe (one where I was smarter about writing this thing), he was killed in the car bombing that landed Jessica Tindal in a stasis tank. I swear it.
Keeping the Mariner alive allows Targeter and Miko to extract their “pound of flesh” when he does get back. Don’t rob them of that, Lord Roden.
Who says they’re even entitled to it? I do this comic like the real world…things aren’t always neatly resolved, and people often don’t get a happy ending.
And ANYBODY can die, here.