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It's wise to never form strong attachment to characters in Game of Thrones.
But surprise: it is very hard to form any attachment to characters in an already slender plot when they are all shown to be unpleasant and crazy.
And while I agree – they certainly aren't real – why is attachment to characters in GoT such a bad thing, given the monumental outpouring of grief for Fred Weasley, or Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series?
Instead, open-ended solutions create a stake in ownership, something of a first for the series outside of emotional attachment to characters.
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I've mentioned before that I rarely read short stories, mostly because I don't have time to form attachments to characters in a short space.
Sure, it is understandable that you can feel sympathy/empathy for the other characters and attachment to the character that died, but they will be fine in the end.
They have a strong attachment to the characters.
Apparently, there are people out there called "plushies" who have a strong, usually erotic attachment to animal characters.
What the novel has to offer, that voluptuous immersion in another world and a long, unfolding attachment to its characters, can't be so easily supplied elsewhere.
The natural protector instinct we have gives us a clear emotional attachment to the characters in front of us.
If the pacing is off, the reader can have a hard time staying engaged as it makes the book too slow or too intense for real attachment to the characters to form.
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