[@RomanAria] WAIT ARE YOU KILLING WHO I THINK YOU MIGHT BE KILLING?!  Wait no, you can't be, they have to be new.  Um.  Well.

Wait a second, [@mdk] seems to intend to kill someone not-new off as well?  I'm confused.  Did I miss or misunderstand something?

[@Terminal], you said that every character in the story must be entirely new, correct?  I mean, it will be particularly difficult, given that making minor characters when similar minor characters with similar purposes already exist is a real pain, and leads to blurred edges, but certainly the one (or more) that die(s) must be entirely new.  Must every single mention of anyone be entirely new too?  What about setting?  I came up with an idea that fits into a story already in progress, and have been working on it, but I saw the stuff here and after reading the directions again it sounds like I can't use her because her story would involve other characters that do already exist, as well as a few that are half made and waiting to be finished, not to mention a world that is not only well developed but also inspired if not created by a writing buddy.  It sounds to me like using that world and those other characters to detail the story of the new one would disqualify my entry.  Unless somehow I managed to tell it without ever using any of them...which would be quite a trick.

Actually, I guess the setting could be preexisting because otherwise any fandom work would be automatically disqualified, as would anything where you have to credit someone else (unless they helped with this entry specifically).  But the issue of any characters outside of the focus one does remain.

Additionally, I have a question about death.  What do you consider death?  No longer being alive, complete destruction, or no longer being able to have a deliberate impact on the world?  You stated that dying but then skipping permanent removal would be trite, and I can agree with this.  But what about the other way round?  For example, if there is a creature who dies but is reborn -- in this case, a phoenix -- dying isn't so much of an issue.  However, if one were to put her in a state where she is not really alive but not truly dead, and thus unable to burn to ash and respawn, I would consider that a death.  While the body might remain, it would be an empty shell, and given that I've always felt death in the OOC sense to be a matter of consciousness and not form, I believe this qualifies.  For example, someone who dies IC but then lingers on as a ghost is not dead-dead, but someone who is braindead or in a permanent coma is, if Word of God says there will be no recovery.  Though I might make an exception if a literal act of an IC god might bring them back...because that /has/ happened before, but that's not relevant here. 

In fact, I'd feel the phoenix was the precise opposite of a technical death without lasting consequences -- since it's all the lasting consequences and a removal of her as a player in the story, but technically lacks full death.  Given, however, that I don't always see things as others do, and since I've come at things from an entirely opposite perspective from your own in the past, I want to be sure before investing any more effort in her story for the moment.  Even though I now desperately want to tell it, and am definitely going to in the near future even if not for this.