[quote=@FantasyChic]
It's like what I say about jogging. If tv has taught me anything, it's that you either find a dead body jogging, or you become one.

RP Characters almost always lose their loved ones. It's so tragic :(
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There's really two reasons for it, too!

A) supporting casts, either they're hard for the writer too pull off. Maybe the writer feels like they distract from the "plot" and if every character has 5+ supporting members all the time, why would we play with each other when they could just play with their own characters all day?

and B) Because we, as writers are all hopeful that we can be good people (Or just, like, people.) Despite tragedy, and it's nice to see that in characters we create. And of course, that characters who thrive despite tragedy is cool!