Character Death in the MSQ

[Dikatis]

This is just my opinion, but the MSQ's kinda weird with killing off characters.

So writers kill off characters for narrative reasons? You've kind of described all of fiction.

As the others have stated, you're too busy trying to shoehorn everything into boxes that you neglect the context behind them and write off characters like Haurchefant and Papalymo as "people no one cared about" when people clearly do care about them to the point of ugly sobbing in public when talking about them. Colin Ryan, Alphinaud's voice actor, was at a complete loss for words when Haurchefant died despite having an understanding that Haurchefant was doomed from his past work on the game.

Even the writers argue over their usage of character deaths. Natsuko Ishikawa was peeved that three characters she created and wanted to develop, Moenbryda, Haurchefant, and Ysayle, all got killed off by Maehiro in ARR and HW before she could fully flesh them out. This seemed to make her take the opposite approach and become reluctant to kill off core members of the cast (which is honestly to the narrative's general benefit).

So what is your point exactly?