I literally cried when he died though...
That's what I love about heavy RP MUDs. It's less of a 'video game' and more like a story that pulls you in. Hah, stopped playing most lighter games after I started getting into RPIs.
Oh yea. I was playing as Kyle Terry Morance every day for several hours for three years. (Approximately nine years IC.) I really grew attached to him. When he died he was on his way to being that old wise teacher you see in movie cliches. He helped saved the world 4 times, and principle savior once. He has an artificial right ulna, (the upper arm bone), his left hand wound missing several fingers, his right hand was chopped off, eaten the bones given back as a necklace.
He became the strongest human (not by much but just enough), one of his student became evil. Kyle was lost in his new found power, and killed one of his arch nemesis, and almost became corrupted by this power...
Kyle had to take on Rush, the second strongest human, who was becoming increasingly more psychotic. We were fighting over this ocean, our power aura were causing this huge world pool, and the blind bastard managed to stun me, and get the killing blow...
Great fight. Great rp. Rushs' player and by then were good friends. We were both fighting to win, but were just having fun with it, laughing and complementing each other. We were working together to make the fight as cinematic as possible to. You rarely gets scenes like that.