Personally I warn only for non-canon death. I figure canon death is covered in the spoiler warning. And only for death of recurring, named canonical characters -- someone who the reader might care about, even if they're not the focus of this particular story. (I write in Buffy/Angel/Firefly fandoms, where you can't get through a single episode without a body count of staked vamps and their victims.)
I think if I wrote something with an original character who was built up to the point where a reader would care about them as a person, I would warn for that death as well, but I don't tend to write OCs, nor AUs.
I think if I did write AUs I would warn for the death of a character who died in canon anyway if the spoiler warning stopped short of that canonical death, since the reader might not know. Or if the death was significantly different than in canon -- especially if it's more on-staged or otherwise traumatizing than the original treatment.
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Date: 2005-11-09 01:23 am (UTC)I think if I wrote something with an original character who was built up to the point where a reader would care about them as a person, I would warn for that death as well, but I don't tend to write OCs, nor AUs.
I think if I did write AUs I would warn for the death of a character who died in canon anyway if the spoiler warning stopped short of that canonical death, since the reader might not know. Or if the death was significantly different than in canon -- especially if it's more on-staged or otherwise traumatizing than the original treatment.