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It took me a minute to figure out Major Character Death.
Is Bolt a major character? Well, he’s not a canon character.
But, for purposes of your question, if it’s that worrisome, I’ll put an end to fretting by putting a couple of spoilers under the cut. Because I too know the agony of hanging in there and trusting an author and getting all the way to the end and being absolutely gutted or left grumpily unsatisfied because the author’s definition of The Right Thing To Do was crucially different than mine.
Bolt was created sort of last-minute in the story, and as such his role hasn’t been fully fleshed out. But I don’t intend to kill him. I’m too attached to him. I don’t know how happy an ending he’ll get, or how much resolution, but he doesn’t die here, and I don’t have any plans for him to die in the remainder of the story.
It’s highly likely he’ll at least get an off-camera resolution with Arana.
There may be characters who die in the upcoming scenes, but I don’t currently think it’ll be any of the named ones, much less any canon ones. I might create-then-kill-off one or two in the final fight, but I don’t think I will.
So that’s the honest answer! Bolt lives. Poe lives. And Kes lives. (I toyed with that too but no.)

It took me a minute to figure out Major Character Death.
Is Bolt a major character? Well, he’s not a canon character.
But, for purposes of your question, if it’s that worrisome, I’ll put an end to fretting by putting a couple of spoilers under the cut. Because I too know the agony of hanging in there and trusting an author and getting all the way to the end and being absolutely gutted or left grumpily unsatisfied because the author’s definition of The Right Thing To Do was crucially different than mine.
Bolt was created sort of last-minute in the story, and as such his role hasn’t been fully fleshed out. But I don’t intend to kill him. I’m too attached to him. I don’t know how happy an ending he’ll get, or how much resolution, but he doesn’t die here, and I don’t have any plans for him to die in the remainder of the story.
It’s highly likely he’ll at least get an off-camera resolution with Arana.
There may be characters who die in the upcoming scenes, but I don’t currently think it’ll be any of the named ones, much less any canon ones. I might create-then-kill-off one or two in the final fight, but I don’t think I will.
So that’s the honest answer! Bolt lives. Poe lives. And Kes lives. (I toyed with that too but no.)
