I suppose I am one of 'those' rpers that the OP mentioned. Ya know, the one who axes off npcs like its nothing. Both of my main characters of the past two years were, well, in the end, not wonderful people.Â
Askier was a bit more complicated. He'd happily kill anyone for a fee, unless he let them get close to him. And this resulted in a horrible fear of letting people get close in case he had to hurt them ever, which happened a few times. But I wrote him butchering numerous npcs for coin but he had long since stopped thinking morality existed in the world; so he found his mechanism for dealing.
As for my...other...killer, Jin'li
Well for him, killing was as easy as breathing. To my knowledge, he's only one of a handful of pc characters to commit genocide and has actually killed several PC's off. It never once bothered him.
There are people who can kill and not have it affect them. And they don't have to be psychopaths in any way. To say that its weird to meet someone who kills and is normal after is wrong, isn't fair. If you have ever met a soldier or a navy SEAL, they are often VERY normal people who talk about games and football, yet, their ENTIRE job is to kill. They have found a way to internalize and continue living.
When you consider that most characters are only one step above being mercenaries, who kill for coin, is it really that surprising to meet people who basically paint cities red and then go home to their families?
Askier was a bit more complicated. He'd happily kill anyone for a fee, unless he let them get close to him. And this resulted in a horrible fear of letting people get close in case he had to hurt them ever, which happened a few times. But I wrote him butchering numerous npcs for coin but he had long since stopped thinking morality existed in the world; so he found his mechanism for dealing.
As for my...other...killer, Jin'li
Well for him, killing was as easy as breathing. To my knowledge, he's only one of a handful of pc characters to commit genocide and has actually killed several PC's off. It never once bothered him.
There are people who can kill and not have it affect them. And they don't have to be psychopaths in any way. To say that its weird to meet someone who kills and is normal after is wrong, isn't fair. If you have ever met a soldier or a navy SEAL, they are often VERY normal people who talk about games and football, yet, their ENTIRE job is to kill. They have found a way to internalize and continue living.
When you consider that most characters are only one step above being mercenaries, who kill for coin, is it really that surprising to meet people who basically paint cities red and then go home to their families?
