let's kill tonight

[parrygripp]

"Could You Take A Life?"

Simple question. Not a very simple thing to answer. Seeing as how many canons — from action to horror — deal with death in one way or another, it's a pretty reasonable thing to ask around these parts.

So, when posed with the question, could you take a life?, how does your character respond? Are they a cold, hard, remorseless killer, someone who's never even thought about murder until now, or something more complex?

• No blank top-levels.
• Instead, characters are to respond to the proposed question: could you take a life / could you kill someone?
• We're asking for honesty here, but it's not as if we have fact-checkers waiting around. Lie if you want. We're not your parents.

Comments

Tess Mercer | Smallville

[havenomercy]

When necessary.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

Ever killed anyone you didn't already hate?

Angel | OC | OTA

[graveling]

I don't like this question.

...maybe? I've never had to.

[comfortindarkness]

I don't recommend it.

The Agent | Tom Clancy's The Division

[divisionary]

Yes.

[To-the-point and almost blasé.]

nathan prescott / life is strange

[vortexts]

Like it's hard.

( easy there, tough guy. )

Vanitas | The Case Study of Vanitas

[bleude]

I may be a doctor, but I already have.

[retaliatings]

Intentionally or as a byproduct of the limitations of medicine? Doctors are not infallible.

Sherlock Holmes 🔎 BBC Sherlock 🔎 OTA

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

It's become far too easy these days.


[Even came within moments of killing his own brother before logic kicked in again.]

[threebladesdeep]

people say it never gets easier, but I've found it's like anything else in life.
the more you practice it, the easier it gets

Foggy Nelson • Daredevil • OTA

[bettercallfoggy]

I don't think so? Not on purpose anyway and it would have to be an extreme situation.

Shadow Man | Mega Man Mega/Gigamix | OTA

[inyourshadows]

Human or not?

[His answer depends on that.]

Felix Terzi | Original | OTA

[formula3]

No, I don't think so.

Maybe if the person is trying to kill me? Even then, better to run. I wouldn't have a weapon! It's so unlikely anyway. Most people can't say how they would react.

Isabella O'Rourke | OC | OTA

[mollified]

If the time comes.

When the time comes.

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

If you've never been in the position before, then you don't know.

[Spoken with absolute conviction of someone who's done it far too often.]

Dr. Jack Abbot - The Pitt - ota

[comfortindarkness]

It's not something I'm proud of.

[divisionary]

It's not exactly something easy to talk about, is it?

Birdie Lewis | OC | Vampire: The Masquerade | OTA

[acaseofyou]

Not exactly the first option, but it's an option.

Kalluto Zoldyck - Hunter x Hunter

[kalluto]

Of course.

hiram leeds / the jersey devil ( folklore / original )

[pinebarrens]

Sure. I haven't done it in a while, though. Usually scaring cryptid-hunters shitless works just as well.

Vanth | Etruscan Mythology

[guideofsouls]

It is not my place.

Matt Murdock | MCU | OTA

[thedevilsworkisneverdone]

Can, yes. Would, no. I can't cross that line. I've come too close to it before.

[tueurnoir]

For the sake of curiosity, why not?

Louisa "Lou" Clark | Me Before You | OTA

[bumblebee_tights]

[There's a very long pause as she nervously wrings her hands together.]

No!
No.
I mean....uh...but does it count if you're there when someone dies and you don't do anything?

NiGHTS | NiGHTS into Dreams... | OTA

[afterthedream]

That's not any of your business.

[fount_of_knowledge]

"I thought we were asking difficult questions to each other tonight."

Yet he doesn't seem to... push the topic, merely sipping away some of his black vanilla tea.

Yuri | Gnosia

[softreboot]

...Yes.

Lune | Expedition 33

[fortesattentes]

I would want to say that such a thing would be done with practicality in mind, but I have found myself wondering if that has always been the case.

[A Nevron life is still a life. And the same would hold for the world's creatures.]

John F. Walker | MCU

[juniorvarsitycap]

Yeah. I can and will.

mercy craft ( original )

[rituale]

Uh, no, not-- not deliberately. People dying around me isn't the same thing.

[threebladesdeep]

how do they die around you if you're not the one doing the killing?

704 | fate makes no mistakes

[7o4]

I'd rather not.

[ but of course he could. ]

yuri lowell | tales of vesperia

[evervigilante]

Yes.

I don't regret it, but . . . maybe it wasn't the right way.

colress | pokémon (games) | ota

[shadesbetween]

[ No hesitation, ] If need be, yes.

[springthaw]

[Polite cough.] Um, let's hope you never need to!