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Friday Five: character deaths
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fannish5: What five character deaths affected you the most?
Just in case, don't look if you want to avoid being spoiled for:
1. Beth March in Good Wives. I cried absolute buckets, and still do every time I read it. Oh, and at three separate parts of the book: first when Beth and Jo discuss her dying, second when she actually dies, and third when Amy gets the news and grieves in Europe. *sniff*
2. Robin Hood in Robin of Sherwood, played by Michael Praed. I was obsessed with that series and I was pretty young, about 6 when it started I think, so it was possibly the first time that I realised the hero could die, that dying could be part of what made him a hero. And I was gutted. I still have an image in my head of him breaking his bow over his knee *shivers* (It's probably much more effective in my head, as the series itself is now cringingly 80s, but it made a huge impression on me at the time)
3. Akela from The Jungle Book, though I think he actually dies in The Second Jungle Book. My Dad started reading me the first one when I was 5, possibly younger, as bedtime stories, something that may explain my lifelong love of wolves. I was a little older when I read about the Red Dogs and Akela dying after the battle and it's incredibly moving.
4. Prince Diarmuid in The Fionavar Tapestry. Oh man. One of my favourite characters, and it's such a good death, very selfless and brave, and completely Diarmuid and it absolutely wrenched my heart out. Because he had so much life and so much to live for, so it is a real sacrifice. Again, I cried buckets. (And it's the second time in that series Guy Gavriel Kay did that to me, the bastard, so there's an honourable mention to Kevin too, but Diarmuid hurt more I think.)
5. Theoden King. I thought Bernard Hill played him fantastically in the films, and his death scene is probably the first point in RotK I cried (not the last though). "I go to join my fathers, in whose great company I shall not now feel ashamed." *sobs*
*wanders off tearily*
fannish5: What five character deaths affected you the most?Just in case, don't look if you want to avoid being spoiled for:
1. Beth March in Good Wives. I cried absolute buckets, and still do every time I read it. Oh, and at three separate parts of the book: first when Beth and Jo discuss her dying, second when she actually dies, and third when Amy gets the news and grieves in Europe. *sniff*
2. Robin Hood in Robin of Sherwood, played by Michael Praed. I was obsessed with that series and I was pretty young, about 6 when it started I think, so it was possibly the first time that I realised the hero could die, that dying could be part of what made him a hero. And I was gutted. I still have an image in my head of him breaking his bow over his knee *shivers* (It's probably much more effective in my head, as the series itself is now cringingly 80s, but it made a huge impression on me at the time)
3. Akela from The Jungle Book, though I think he actually dies in The Second Jungle Book. My Dad started reading me the first one when I was 5, possibly younger, as bedtime stories, something that may explain my lifelong love of wolves. I was a little older when I read about the Red Dogs and Akela dying after the battle and it's incredibly moving.
4. Prince Diarmuid in The Fionavar Tapestry. Oh man. One of my favourite characters, and it's such a good death, very selfless and brave, and completely Diarmuid and it absolutely wrenched my heart out. Because he had so much life and so much to live for, so it is a real sacrifice. Again, I cried buckets. (And it's the second time in that series Guy Gavriel Kay did that to me, the bastard, so there's an honourable mention to Kevin too, but Diarmuid hurt more I think.)
5. Theoden King. I thought Bernard Hill played him fantastically in the films, and his death scene is probably the first point in RotK I cried (not the last though). "I go to join my fathers, in whose great company I shall not now feel ashamed." *sobs*
*wanders off tearily*