Editor walks into the room. "Your story is good, but your protagonists have way too much plot armor. Why don't you just kill them off?"
Author raises an eyebrow. "What, why?"
"I mean you raise the stakes pretty well, but your audience is going to feel like they're invincible. Why not just kill one of the main characters to get them more invested."
"It's an action-comedy-romance hybrid for middle grade and young adults. Besides, they progress with every challenge! I can raise the stakes better but you don't have to include death! How is there supposed to be romance if the characters die at the end?"
"Romeo and Juliet is a romance and they died at the end, didn't they?"
"What, Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy you moron! And the characters were too stupid to actually tell each other what was going on when they were finally alone! I'm not killing off my characters just for the same of shock value!"
"True, but can you do something drastic to them like torture, losing a limb, how about rape, you could pull in the younger girl demo-?!"
"No! And why the hell would I make a story for girls where the lead gets raped? Are you freaking serious? Women don't need to get sexually harassed in every freaking story, especially for stories to inspire young boys and girls!!"
"Don't you want to be the next George R.R. Martin?!"
"He actually makes his characters fleshed out before he kills them! Not everything has to be Game of Thrones to be good ya know! My audience can't care about my characters if they're dead!"
"This is why you'll never succeed as a writer!"
"You're fired!! Get out!"
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