Magician's assistant

So far we’ve talked about unknown random girls volunteering. But what it the volunteer wasn’t unfamiliar? What if she was an easily recognized child star or the daughter of a celebrity? Would that change things? Would the audience react differently? Would the magician be thought of as the bad guy? It’s one thing to kill the girl next-door and quite another thing to kill a rising starlet.

This would obviously draw a huge crowd and be a big anticipated event like a championship boxing match. Something that people would talk about long in advance and long after. There would be big money in it. Enough to justify ending a fledgling career prematurely.

If parents or managers suspected, that a girl's career might be about to go down a bad path, as has happened with many child stars, they might convince her to end her career on a high note and be loved by the world forever instead of possibly ending up as a washed-up, drug addled mess and target of ridicule. Killing them might save them from an even grislier fate.

Young celebrities nowadays are brought up to have a strong social consciousness. A good-natured girl might want to donate her life-savings to a good cause, like a relief fund, where the money is needed NOW, not later. She hasn't lived long enough yet, to have saved up enough, so she might give her life instead to raise the necessary funds. This would also send a strong message of love to the world. A girl sacrificing herself to save others would be an inspiration for everyone and immortalise her.

Would the magician be the seen as the bad guy? That would depend very much on the circumstances. What kind of star is the girl? Who are her fans? Is the outcome certain or is there a chance for survival? Whatever the case might be, the magician should definitely be anonymous. There are always some bad obsessive fans out there, who take things too far. They might want to save the girl or take revenge out of grief or out of jealousy. There should also be plenty of security at the event.

If the girl wasn't a star herself but merely the daughter of a star, that would certainly also arouse attention, but a lot more of it would be negative. This would obviously lead to accusations, that said celebrity wants to sacrifice their daughter to further their own career.

Did you have any particular girls in mind, who would be a good choice for a deadly magic act?

Like you, I think a lot of this depends on who she is and how she explains her choice to her fans. But if it was a popular actress who was genuine with it, it would send a very strong, empowered message about having the right to make your own choices.