You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.

Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. - Jon Snow

Go Ahead, call me all the names you want," Sansa said airily. "You won't dare when I'm married to Joffrey. You'll have to bow and call me Your Grace." She shrieked as Arya flung the orange across the table. It caught her in the middle of the forehead with a wet squish and plopped down into her lap. "You have juice on your face, Your Grace ," Arya said.

What's dead may never die.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.