PS. (Because I refuse to edit that comment again.)
I hate really don't appreciate character death warnings. Not all the time; if your story starts with the character already dead/you it in the first sentence, then feel free to warn for character death (mostly because I don't care). However, if the death is part of the story/plot development, then hell mend you (the author) for telling me that at the beginning of the story. Death is kinda, y'know, to be expected when you have people that are, y'know, living. And if you (the reader) don't know that by this point, then god, you have much bigger issues than character death warnings on a story. *deep breath*
I have read stories with a CD warning. And I have even read stories in which the warned for CD happens as part of the story. For the most part, I've enjoyed these stories well enough, but they do lose something, for me, by my knowing that one of the main characters (in the story) will die. I have actually read one, maybe two, stories in which I was warned at the start for CD and I got to the end and was utterly surprised, and devastated, to discover that Rodney (/John/whoever) had died!? But that was one (or two) very, very, very well written stories out of countless others.
I actually don't get as pissed off with CD warnings on stories as it appears above. Tho, that's mostly because of years of people doing and I am resigned. But I have always disliked CD warnings on fic.
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hatereally don't appreciate character death warnings. Not all the time; if your story starts with the character already dead/you it in the first sentence, then feel free to warn for character death (mostly because I don't care). However, if the death is part of the story/plot development, then hell mend you (the author) for telling me that at the beginning of the story. Death is kinda, y'know, to be expected when you have people that are, y'know, living. And if you (the reader) don't know that by this point, then god, you have much bigger issues than character death warnings on a story. *deep breath*I have read stories with a CD warning. And I have even read stories in which the warned for CD happens as part of the story. For the most part, I've enjoyed these stories well enough, but they do lose something, for me, by my knowing that one of the main characters (in the story) will die. I have actually read one, maybe two, stories in which I was warned at the start for CD and I got to the end and was utterly surprised, and devastated, to discover that Rodney (/John/whoever) had died!? But that was one (or two) very, very, very well written stories out of countless others.
I actually don't get as pissed off with CD warnings on stories as it appears above. Tho, that's mostly because of years of people doing and I am resigned. But I have always disliked CD warnings on fic.