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Meina... is gone for good
Can you imagine how hard it was to NOT make an April fool's joke page today?
Enjoy!
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I knew it...
QAQ My eyes are pricking... this is the saddest page yet. Screw the Fallen and whatever was causing them.
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Jap, absolut!
Du warst nicht bereit? Dann bereite dich lieber darauf vor, dass noch mehr Charaktere abkratzen werden 
Permadeath ist ein Ding in Arindia.
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Weil ich...ein gemeiner Mensch bin und fiktionale Charaktere gerne abschlachte
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Ne ne ne... du LÄSST abschlachten
Sonst müsstest du dich als Mörderin malen
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Ich würde das gerne kontern, aber ich kann nicht, denn es ist wahr.
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Awww, I thought it might happen but was definitely not ready for this.
I made it worse for myself because I forgot which way the comic went and read the panels around the wrong way. So it became really abrupt when I read it that way.
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Ooooh, I see. I guess the page still makes sense, even if you read it the other way
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Yeah, it just came across as way more abrupt. I need to be more careful which way I read comics.
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Am I insensitive for thinking that death is just another way to shape a story? I'm probably just bad at being an audience, but I see this mostly in terms of what sort of changes it will bring out in Nuray and Nicola and how it will affect their development. Maybe I'm not remembering things correctly, but didn't Nicola need a little bit of a push towards committing to the Arindian(s?) battle against the fallen? Wasn't there some sort of choice she was waffling on?
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No, you aren't insensitive at all.
I think I see where you're coming from and you might be right.
You are remembering things correctly.
Meina's death has a big influence on Nuray (it would be bad writing if it didn't have any influence at all, imo) and he will totally take actions due to her death (most of which he had done anyway sooner or later but due to Meina it's now sooner than later).
It won't have much influence on Nicola, though. It could be a reason but it takes more to make her commit to Arindia's battle. She doesn't like decisions and embraces every excuse she can get to postpone a decision or not decide at all. Yes, she considered to accept her powers but only because she figured that was the only way to stay with Nuray. Since he doesn't care whether she's human or not, there isn't really a reason for her to decide for one way or the other.
I think what you are basically asking is: Is Meina's death a plot device?
To be honest, I can't say.
I'd be more than happy if someone could tell me where the clear line is between plot device and not-plot-device. Because for me, there doesn't seem to be any other difference other than "a plot device is a forced way to get the plot going".
I only add scenes and events to the story that I think will get the plot going (everything else would be out of place and just slow down the narrative) so everything could be a plot device. Whenever I add a scene I carefully weave it into the world and storyline. So when I was adding the scene of Meina's death, I wasn't thinking "I need event X to trigger, how can I do that? Oh, of course, let her die.", I was thinking: "Alright, Event X logically triggers this way - Meina lives - or that way - Meina dies - which one should I choose...I don't really need Meina anymore...so let's kill her off. And the reason is A and B and of course, it now makes sense in event D as well!"
I think Meina's death isn't forced but please let me know if you think otherwise. Probably, you - as a reader - look at it from a different perspective I haven't considered yet
I had plenty of versions of the story in which Meina didn't die and almost nothing in the storyline changed afterwards. Her death triggers certain events but these events also had taken place if she didn't die.
The circumstances of her death (the Fallen attacking the village) and the timing weren't a coincidence, neither, which will be explained later in the story.
Fallen are all over Arindia. We'll meet many more of them in the future (this will make Meina's death seem less coincidental, I guess ).
Some sources say a plot device isn't a plot device if it is woven into the story, e.g., if a character dies, it's not a plot device if the character had a backstory, a personality, and the character's death influences decisions all over the storyline afterwards (like, characters remembering the dead friend, characters are traumatized, they visit the grave some time later, grieving, whatever) and not only that one time.
But there's always the possibility, Meina's death is purely a plot device and I'm just trying to defent myself because I made a mistake of putting it in there...I can't say because I can't make fully sense of the term "plot device".
To conclude: Your statement isn't insensitive at all. If anything it triggered my brain to think about the whole issue. I'm confused now
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