Air does this with both Misuzu Kamio and Michiru. After she's breathed her last, her loss is mourned by all who knew her - in particularly extreme cases even the Big Bad will take a moment to reflect on it - and may serve to re-energize tired or disillusioned heroes to fight on for her cause. Sometimes she gets to speak a few last words to hammer in An Aesop relevant to the larger plot at hand. The child will be certainly an Ill Girl, and frequently a Waif Prophet, whose death will be slow, torturous and lingering ( tuberculosis or other disease was a particular favorite in the 19th Century), giving the child a chance to bid farewell to everyone she loved in a long, drawn-out drama scene. If there is a child of extraordinary beauty, goodness, and innocence in the story, she ( its usually a she, but male examples do exist) will invariably die in as unsubtle a manner as possible. 
The good die young, or so authors would have us believe.Ī popular and old (and perhaps outdated but overused) trope to justify Kill the Cutie.
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