As long as a character doesn't die, the character can always come back.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.
It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.
You can escape into a character.
It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.
My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.
Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
In a way, the characters often do take over.
I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.