What’s your kill count?

[ScrappyPaperDoodler]

Both major character deaths and incidental ones…

I had four secret policemen shot in my Valentines Contest submission. In an upcoming series I have nine deaths (most of which are of unnamed characters).

How many have died by your hand?

 

[SimonDoom]

About three and a half billion, more or less.

 

[Djmac1031]

I wiped out pretty much the entire male population of earth in my recent Halloween story.

What do I win? Lol

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

Seven in fifty stories, four of them in fantasy settings and all richly deserved!

 

[Omenainen]

I killed off most of humanity once, and it only took me 750 words:

End of the World as We Know It

 

[NotWise]

Fifteen I can think of. That's only the ones I explicitly offed, not the ones who happened to die along the way.

Father Stephen was beheaded in my "One Night" story, and the witch Falcona was responsible for five more. There was one in each of the two Third Ring stories, plus an untold number who just disappeared in the rubble. The rest were scattered about in "A Valentine's Day Mess," and that doesn't count Maria's village wiped out in La Matanza.

 

[rescatooor]

Just three if we count characters that never appear in the story. And just one if we don't.

 

[gunhilltrain]

About three and a half billion, more or less.

Was this a tribute to The Day After Tomorrow or On the Beach? Anyway, I've only considered killing off one person, but I liked the character too much.

 

[MelissaBaby]

1 in My Fall and Rise
A very large unspecified number in Mary and Alvin. I think 12 named characters
1 in last year's Halloween story
No comment on this year's Halloween story

 

[gunhilltrain]

I wiped out pretty much the entire male population of earth in my recent Halloween story.

What do I win? Lol

Ah, you win the slow extinction of humanity I guess? Reminds me of that film Children of Men.

 

[TxRad]

With 258 stories posted it is hard to remember.

Three people in my first try at writing death. Eugene who commits suicide and the two guys who he thought was raping the bartender in the park.

Later on there was a prequel where I destroyed half the eastern USA. Your numbers may vary.

One guy got shot in one story but lived.

I put one character in a coma.

I guess I'm not all that violent.

 

[RejectReality]

Only counting speaking roles...

4 in Ebon. ( Probably a 100 peripherals ) 1 in TMA. 1 in Danica. 2 in Laresa. 2 in Lowborn. 1 in Blackhawk. 1 in Merchant Princess... Off the top of my head. May have missed some. Mostly villains. Mostly violent.

+5 if becoming undead after the horrific death counts. +2 if having your soul dragged back from the afterlife into a clone body counts.

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

Oops, just remembered my Halloween one from last year thanks to Melissababy - for the first time ever, I killed off my main character in that one, poor lad.

So 8 in all, five in fantasies!

 

[TadOverdon]

"Overdon's" kill count is one, I think, if you include a female character's backstory of sucking her elderly husband to death. Maybe. If you believe her.

My personal count of "onstage" deaths will be one...if I ever get the current book finished.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Under various pens, I have written a lot of dark stories filled with murder, rape, suicides, patricide, and so on, so forth. Working out issues, I guess!

 

[yowser]

I was hovering at one until Mickey Spillane and 'Hammered' came along.

Now I've doubled it.

A disturbing trend.

 

[StrangeLife]

In my Halloween contest submission I killed 3 directly and 3 more "off screen". Which is actually a lot for me - I'm usually not very murderous in my stories...

 

[MillieDynamite]

There are at least three confirmed deaths in Written in Blood, and perhaps more. These are deaths where there is no Undeath to continue the character, as in Undead!

None of these deaths are covered, other than the death of one man, and only the sounds of his screams as the Countess pets rip him to shreds out of view.

 

[mynameisben]

Just one.

[Edit: Oops. Make that three.]


Ben

 

[oggbashan]

In my Men at Arms 1 and 2, Welsh castle, Great Rite etc... several hundreds in each.

In my other stories? Between a dozen and twenty in total.

 

[gordo12]

8, plus one character I had vanish. Nobody ever did ask about him. But I know he got killed in a gold mining camp up in Cassiar. I never wrote that into the story.

 

[Agiel]

What’s my kill count?

Not enough.

 

[MillieDynamite]

8, plus one character I had vanish. Nobody ever did ask about him. But I know he got killed in a gold mining camp up in Cassiar. I never wrote that into the story.

No one has asked me about Mrs. Estelle Parsons Clark-Smith and her girl Friday, in The Case of the Rich Man's Wife. We know they were murdered, but were they murdered by the main villain or someone else, what happened to their bodies, why weren't they missed. I expected a ton of questions, I didn't resolve the mystery on purpose and may use the disappeared bodies in a future story.

 

[Ian_Snow]

I want to say four, and all within the same story. One of the deaths involved suicide, which shot the ratings all to hell, but I still really liked the story.

 

[KeithD]

Outside of my detective and espionage serials there is very little death in my stories. When there is, it's usually of a lover by natural causes or accident and sets the dilemma of the story.