#hold me im scared

If he’s actually dead, it makes no fucking sense, narratively speaking. Good writing means giving your characters room to grow and develop, and giving them an ending that’s cathartic. Mind you, that doesn’t mean their ending is “happy,” it means that it’s somehow emotionally satisfying for their journey and doesn’t leave you feeling like their story was incomplete.

Take Theon Greyjoy vs Jaime Lannister, for instance. End of Theon’s journey? A+. Jaime? Absolute dog shit waste of character development.

Spending years crafting a character with depth and complexity just to throw all of it out at the 11th hour is not shock value—it’s just lazy.