<Snipped quote by Etcetera>
I DIDN'T REALLY UNDERSTAND BECAUSE I WAS READING IT INTERMITTENTLY. AND EITHER WAY, AS FAR AS I COULD TELL YOU CREATED HIM TO BE KILLED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Basically, he was a red shirt. A developed red shirt, but a red shirt nonetheless. The death of red shirts doesn't count as killing a character to me. mostly because I don't want to believe you kill your characters
THE CRAP IS A RED SHIRT?!!?
I've turned off holy-guard. Newer characters are entirely vulnerable, and older ones are harder to kill, but no longer invincible. But I really have always preferred torturing them or ruining them mentally to killing them. At least it's still an option to use them then.