Feeling Sentimental?

I think I want it to be a Tragic Fantasy. It sounds so, for want of another word, magical. I can just imagine nothing else but that one story that I started where this little girl was abandoned on a world with almost noone and nothing but her imagination to keep her company. Like a heaven, light and quiet. And even though this is such a beautiful place, so many bad things have happened to her. That story is a lot like the one on Clannad, except mine has a lot more happening in it, however it's just a side-story in Clannad so it's very simple, which is nice.
However, I know that if I make it a Tragic Fantasy, then he has to die in the end, and everyone but him has to know that he dies. But maybe if I make the story really happy, then it'll be worth killing him off in the end. I was going to kill him off anyway, but there was going to be a 'revival', but that would just be too predictable and cliche. Staying young would be nice too, it would give him that element of innocence, even though it gets really dark. He could still have those moments of innocence throughout the Trilogy, but I guess I'll have to figure out how to do that along the way.
He's at a typical age where things always happen in books too. Maybe I should make him a bit younger? Although, I've changed the plot slightly and I don't want him to 'change' at such a young age I don't think.

Just to think, this boy has been a part of my life since I was almost twelve, and he's still here to this day. He's one of the few characters that have been there all the way through. And although I regret that I must change his whole name because of some sort of plot twist that I added, I think the major changes were for the best. After all I was eleven, so you can't expect my writing to be as good as publishing standards.

A Tragic Fantasy does sound just so wonderful. I think I'll go with that since I've been very unsure of what genre I should put it under ever since I started it.