Julia/Henry died in hir roleplay recently. I'm currently taking a time-off to draw a backlog of headcanons and figure out what to do next.
It was a pretty good death. S/He'll be remembered positively and become a bit of a martyr, but it was still unexpected. I should've realized something was up when The General gave hir all the various honors s/he'd been missing from serving in WW II and a promotion for the deeds done in Wyderia. The game master was tying loose ends together.
And it's not like s/he can't be brought back. S/He's at a point in hir personal afterlife where s/he's technically capable of sauntering back to hir old body and returning as a self-aware zombie. Also the other players' character possesses the ability to turn back time - she could undo the whole fancy, heartfelt funeral and save my characters life, but our characters don't get along at all so...
Third option, offer up the entity s/he's become in the afterlife as an NPC and either end the roleplay or return with new characters. This One feels very...narrativically satisfying in a way, even if it isn't exactly canon right now.
I mean, I know I shouldn't bring hir back to life because s/he died at such a good point so as to have come out with all hir personal secrets and get all hir honors but not have to stay to deal with the consequences (also hir profile only supports up to four tabs so there's not enough room for any more character arcs :D). But there's still this sense of...you know, curiosity. Imagining how emotional the reunions could be, what s/he'd be like if s/he did become the mechanical-armed electromancer that s/he'd been aiming towards at the start of the roleplay and whether s/he'd become embittered and obsessed with demons, taking over the place vacated by Samson.
I just...I just miss hir.
That said I do have two character concepts for that roleplay. One's an investigative reporter, Christine Evelyn Anderson, who writes all sorts of ghost stories and spiritualism stuff until one day she stumbles on something that isn't a hoax. Could be interesting as a fresh character who's not emotionally numb and isn't afraid to act "feminine" might be a breath of fresh air. Then again her basic character arc WILL be identical to Henry/Julia i.e. "good character gets broken down, toughened up and turnt cynical because war-war-war".
The other is a demon possessing a human body, so the character arc could be less "good character toughens up or gets broken" and more "evil character learns to feel empathy". The idea has merit but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable roleplaying an entity who, at the start of their arc, would feel no emotions and feeds on fear. I'd be afraid of what my own imagination would cook up with the premise.
Plus I doubt either of them would grow on me the way Henry/Julia did, they'd just be vehicles for finding out setting information that my character never got around to figuring out.