Chime85
Sage
This isn’t so much as a call for help as it is more of a poser to get the ethical juices flowing. The question of the hour is at what would cause your characters to kill, and do you consider your own moral code in this?
For example, one of my characters NEVER kills. She sees life as a precious gift that she has no right to take away from anybody. That said, she does command troops to defend a town under siege. Something she dislikes doing, but she sees as the lesser of evils. She has killed in the past, but since then she would never kill anyone by her own hand.
Another kills someone out of anger and spite. Something she regrets doing later, but she does kill in battle as well. There are also characters who prefer to kill when the odds are on their side, such as stabbing someone when they sleep.
What do you take into consideration when deciding when a character reaches a breaking point enough to kill another? Personally, I keep my view on killing in mind, even if just so I can hold the opposite view from time to time (it’s nice to argue with myself!)
Do you consider the laws of the land they are in, or perhaps religious/ritualistic murder? Do you prefer your characters to relish the act of killing, be it cold murder or war? Do your characters struggle internally with these very questions when presented with the choice to kill someone else?
For example, one of my characters NEVER kills. She sees life as a precious gift that she has no right to take away from anybody. That said, she does command troops to defend a town under siege. Something she dislikes doing, but she sees as the lesser of evils. She has killed in the past, but since then she would never kill anyone by her own hand.
Another kills someone out of anger and spite. Something she regrets doing later, but she does kill in battle as well. There are also characters who prefer to kill when the odds are on their side, such as stabbing someone when they sleep.
What do you take into consideration when deciding when a character reaches a breaking point enough to kill another? Personally, I keep my view on killing in mind, even if just so I can hold the opposite view from time to time (it’s nice to argue with myself!)
Do you consider the laws of the land they are in, or perhaps religious/ritualistic murder? Do you prefer your characters to relish the act of killing, be it cold murder or war? Do your characters struggle internally with these very questions when presented with the choice to kill someone else?