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Creative Ways to Kill a Character
Recovering_Cynic:
Hmm... Does anyone know of a compilation of interesting ways to kill off one of your characters? If nobody has a link handy, we should start one of our own :)
RavenstarRHJF:
Do you mean the actual death itself, or the reason behind the death?
sortitus:
I know that one of my friend's favorites was having people fall into extra-big lottery number tumblers filled with razor blades. Apparently, that's how people store them (the razor blades and the tumblers) when they aren't in use. When multiple characters in a book die this way, one would expect other characters to get quite unhinged, but I'm told that it's a fairly mundane cause of death nowadays. ;)
Recovering_Cynic:
That is a very creative way of doing in a character, and creative is what I want. Hmmm... what are some other creative ways?
Perhaps locking a character in a room filled with starving cats. Only he doesn't know that they haven't been fed in days. And then when he falls asleep...
RavenstarRHJF:
Powdered glass in their food. Read that one once... more creative than poison, certainly.
Caught in a stampede while on a free Safari trip.
Ate a carnivorous plant's seed which then took root in the intestines.
Bored to death.
An enemy modified a laser pointer and shone it in their eyes, thus frying the brain.
I'm sure I'll come up with more.
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