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[fairest1]

Dear various authors

Comments

[kawaiispinel]

I am highly tempted to write a story now where the sweet, little princess-y heroine yells "calls dibs" and stabs the villain. That would be awesome.

I hate the whole "killing him will only make you as bad as he is" element.

[saciel]

especially because always, ALWAYS the villain will just AFTERWARDS kill the next most important Person of the heros life

[fairest1]

Yes. Killing one irredemable villain is not as bad as killing countless innocents, as most villains do.

I'm planning to include a 'Dibs!' scene in a story I'm writing. We should all write stories like that; the world needs them.

[takkunelwood]

Awesome post.

Or you could turn it around, "Don't kill him! I love him!", and then turn it into a whole new kettle of fish. :P

[takkunelwood]

Oooh, I like :D

[fairest1]

*thumbs up* That works quite well.

[werewolf_lib]

I had this issue last night while watching Torchwood. If someone's going to torture, kill and eat you? Shoot 'em while the shooting's good.

[fairest1]

Or chop off the head and burn the heart. Depends on what kind of baddie you're dealing with.

[werewolf_lib]

As long as the result is the same, go for it! There's no moral dilemna when you're fighing someone with no morals.

[fairest1]

Exactly. The end justifies the means, if the alternative would only result in more pain and death. I can get a moral argument to give the villain a quick and fairly painless death, but that's as far as it stretches for me.

[tonko]

Urgh.

I too would love to see the "dibs" version of that. LOL.

[dracobolt]

Stuff like that doesn't make me think about how noble the hero/heroine is, it makes me think they're really dumb. If you don't kill the villain, he's probably going to escape and do something big and catastrophic.