[@Tybalt Capulet] One of my favourite characters was someone I originally wrote to [i]be[/i] a Tragic Backstory kind of character, because sometimes you need those. She wound up as one of my favourite characters I ever wrote about, and it's a concept I still play with from time to time.

I'm [i]absolutely[/i] certain that one of the sisters in my NaNo story is going to die, though. It's the only way the story can end. They're both proud, intelligent, convinced that they're right and have good personal and narrative reason to believe that. There's no room for daylight between their points of view. The question will eventually be whether I want to write a knock-down, drag-out, Last Act Of A Marvel Movie ending, or whether it's going to be something more like the Chess Courtyard Fight in [i]Hero[/i]. I admit I am hugely leaning toward that second one.