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Character you like with several others:

Oh, but there are lots. My beloved Daniel, of course, and also Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and Remus Lupin. I can see those three with most of the major people they have interactions with in their various canons. I have favorites (like Illyria/Wes or Lupin/Snape) but I like all kinds of ships for them, het and slash. I also like Claire Bennet with lots of different people (mainly Gretchen or Sylar, but I also have an unfortunate weakness for all the sides of the Claire/Nathan/Peter triangle. Blame the fandom, people).

Emma Swan, too, although I wouldn't quite call that shipping, I'm just undecided. Graham, August, Neal, Hook (and of course Regina too)... I don't really have a preference.

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Favorite female character

This one is tougher for me to pinpoint, so I'm picking a slightly controversial one from my top five: Claire Bennet, from Heroes.

So, I watched Heroes quite a while after it went off the air, and that was sad for me when I loved it and the fandom was basically gone- but when I found out that Claire was pretty widely hated, I was glad that I'd missed the buzz, because I'm pretty sure I would fight a duel over this girl. True, she made some pretty dumb decisions in S3- but seriously? Everyone turned stupid in S3, and only Claire had the excellent excuse of being a teenager at the time. She started out a scared, confused girl in a situation none of us can really fathom, and by the fourth season she'd grown into a resourceful, mature, and determined woman. She was the only one who handled Nathan's death and everything that happened with Sylar like a grownup, and her budding relationship with her friend Gretchen was lovely and full of potential.

Though Heroes redeemed itself for me general with S4- which I, for the most part, loved- I understand why it is widely held up as the golden standard of shows that went very downhill, and I understand why it was cancelled- but, if only for Claire, I wish it had gotten at least one more season. I wanted to know what was next for her and I still do.

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The AO3 Major Character Death warning should have qualifiers?

I mean, I try to avoid stories where main characters die, and maybe I should stop because one of my favorite fics ever, The Night of the Setting Sun is a) a death-fic and the kind of the death-fic that makes all the others seem trite and overdone in the face of it's gorgeous simplicity and b) not sad so much as true, exactly everything the canon was telling you would happen if everything one day went very, very wrong. Also, it probably would have benefited from not having to declare itself.

Okay, I was getting away from my original point there. My comment is this: shouldn't some fandoms have a canon-typical character death tag the same way there is a canon typical violence tag where you can get away with leaving out the graphic depictions of violence warning because it's Cabin in the Woods or whatever and it's unlikely to be worse than what people already signed up for?

I mean, fics that at certain times in their respective series killed Rory Williams/Daniel Jackson/Nathan Petrelli would really just be business as usual, right? And he'd keep coming back, wouldn't he?

Anyway, I happen to think a character who gets killed and then brought back again should get a free pass for a while, but if the canon has already gone there...

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