Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-43756665-20200208204457/@comment-86.152.12.193-20200215183015

Admittedly, a boring one. I'm not saying that we shouldn't have major character death next volume, but I'm tired of people saying things to the effect of 'I won't believe things have gotten serious unless they kill X character'. Cheaply killing off characters to raise the stakes is bad writing. Give the deaths meaning, then I'll accept it.

Pyrrha's death in Volume 3 meant something because we knew her, inside and out. We knew her troubles, her past, her longing for a relationship as equals with Jaune. But what really made it stand out was how it affected people going forward. Jaune was devastated in early Volume 4, and Ruby hadn't recovered from it either. It hurt, in and out of universe.

Clover's death this volume had a similar impact. He was by far the Ace Op we were most familiar with, and we got to see (albeit briefly) the positive impact he'd had on Qrow. And his death was shocking and stung because of that. I can almost guaruntee Qrow will be angsting about how he let Clover die in Volume 8.

As an aspiring writer, I take this shit seriously. Give the writers a break, haters. I know how hard that stuff can be.