Old characters don’t die, they just fade away. Then randomly barge into your stream of consciousness when you’re trying to get other work done.
AEON was a ‘novel’ I wrote in a 3-subject notebook in high school that was more or less a mash-up of Cybernator, Metal Warriors and Macross concepts, but I still like a lot of the ideas that popped into my head. Sandy was the heroine and probably a total Mary Sue in retrospect (a general’s daughter who had an ancient AI imbed itself in her brain as a split personality/controlling presence) but darn it, I like her still.