(Yay for hitting enter to early. Stoopid puter.)
Hmmm. I do not think things are quite as simple as they have been put forth. Killing and murder are handled differently depending on what type of story is being told. An action movie type story stacks up bodies like cordwood. A romance focused story probably does not have as high a body count. It has very little to do with what is "dark" or "edgy," but everything to do with what the individual writer/rper finds appropriate. That said, like anything else it can be handled poorly. Mindless killing is sometimes just that, mindless. When handled or viewed well by players and their characters it really highlights something horrific about the the world. Namely that there are people capable of it. It also opens up that lovely moral quandries like the classic Batman/Joker debate of "how many death's is Bats responsible for not just killing the Joker."Â
As for how it is viewed through the lens of my own character... Hrmm. Yssen's case might be a bit extreme. Being brief and vague about his back story, he is (for all intents and purposes) as child soldier. Trained to fight and kill from a very young age, and conditioned to not really have the act of killing affect him. Killing a person and killing a deer are not at all different to him in terms of scale of act. A deer has just as much right to live as a human does, and they usually die for similar reasons. Now that said, he did leave his super fun childhood behind, and he doesn't wander around just murdering people left and right. It is just another solution on the table, and other things might be more appropriate or better solutions. His hard and fast rule on it is pretty simple, a person has to put death on the table as on option. You don't kill a deer just to kill a deer. You kill a deer because you need the deer's meat or skin. Same thing with humans. Some action, intent, or something makes their death necessary to resolve the situation. In short, Yssen does not kill without purpose or reason (like a crazy person). He just doesn't feel bad about it afterwards (like a morally skewed person).Â
It should be noted that Yssen is probably on the far side of the metric as far as most people go, though. The same could be said of say... a former Garlean soldier (they have to kill something every day as part of their training, often times people) or a 20 year veteran (they have seen and done some things). Anywho, thanks for posting up the topic. These things are cool to think on and dicuss. Yar. ^ ^
Hmmm. I do not think things are quite as simple as they have been put forth. Killing and murder are handled differently depending on what type of story is being told. An action movie type story stacks up bodies like cordwood. A romance focused story probably does not have as high a body count. It has very little to do with what is "dark" or "edgy," but everything to do with what the individual writer/rper finds appropriate. That said, like anything else it can be handled poorly. Mindless killing is sometimes just that, mindless. When handled or viewed well by players and their characters it really highlights something horrific about the the world. Namely that there are people capable of it. It also opens up that lovely moral quandries like the classic Batman/Joker debate of "how many death's is Bats responsible for not just killing the Joker."Â
As for how it is viewed through the lens of my own character... Hrmm. Yssen's case might be a bit extreme. Being brief and vague about his back story, he is (for all intents and purposes) as child soldier. Trained to fight and kill from a very young age, and conditioned to not really have the act of killing affect him. Killing a person and killing a deer are not at all different to him in terms of scale of act. A deer has just as much right to live as a human does, and they usually die for similar reasons. Now that said, he did leave his super fun childhood behind, and he doesn't wander around just murdering people left and right. It is just another solution on the table, and other things might be more appropriate or better solutions. His hard and fast rule on it is pretty simple, a person has to put death on the table as on option. You don't kill a deer just to kill a deer. You kill a deer because you need the deer's meat or skin. Same thing with humans. Some action, intent, or something makes their death necessary to resolve the situation. In short, Yssen does not kill without purpose or reason (like a crazy person). He just doesn't feel bad about it afterwards (like a morally skewed person).Â
It should be noted that Yssen is probably on the far side of the metric as far as most people go, though. The same could be said of say... a former Garlean soldier (they have to kill something every day as part of their training, often times people) or a 20 year veteran (they have seen and done some things). Anywho, thanks for posting up the topic. These things are cool to think on and dicuss. Yar. ^ ^
