...in front of your enemy's child?

[DeathChairOfHell]

a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. i'd tell everyone accept my enemy to leave. and right as they walk out the door or something, i shoot him in the face and leave.

 

[chenry]

slot them both.

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

Tell him to tuck his child away so we could enter teh final battle! His kid did nothing to me, and probably wants no part in all of it.

 

[Ultracake]

Kill my enemy, Raise the child as my own. Then kill the child.

*Manic laugh*

Then why not just kill the child then and there and save yourself the time and money of raising it? please say that you wern't planning on raising it as your own personal pleasure slave and then killing it when you had no more use for it.

Edit: How very big of you, but maaaaabye you could have spared the lives of at least a few of the guards on the way up to this point so you don't have something like 50 epic quests for vengance biting you in the butt at some point in the future? hopefully happening all at once to make the scene particularly funny regardless of gender.

I personally would aim sneak past all the guards and then knock out both father and child and then sell them into slavery or something so that they suffer a fate worse than death and cannot kill me in vengeance later.

The more innocent and free a thing is, The more fun it is to corrupt it

Not a pleasure slave. More of a minion i can kill when i get bored of it

 

[Chaos-Spider]

I'd call him out on bringing his kid to a climactic showdown. I mean that's just bad form right there. I mean, he knows I wouldn't want to traumatize the poor kid, I'm the good guy after all.

Then I'd try to convince the kid to leave if the villian didn't. And worst case scenario, Apologize to the child for killing his/her dad.

Afterwards I'd see to it that arrangements where made to care for the child. Check up on him/her regularly, ultimately I expect the child would either A) understand why I felt it nessesairy to kill his/her father and accept it, which I would do my best to achieve; B) chose to take revenge on me, to which I would allow a climactic showdown of my own, and attempt one last time to explain things, failing that I would accept death as pennance for killing his/her father; C) the child would not only see my point of view but accept it as their own and become a sort of uneasy hero/sidekick in their own right.

The child would not die given the option; even if the only other option was my dying. Although I guarantee the kid's dad dies.

Congratulations, other than murdering X+1 people to get to this point, you have proven yourself to be a truly good hero-type person and a very much bigger person than myself. I will now totally laugh at the irony if you turn out to be a very short person.

I Guess this means that you now win this scenario sir.

Only if you're 6' 5" or taller.

I'm not saying i'd be perfect up until that point, but to me caring for the child (and it would be easier if the child was younger, four maybe) would be my penance for all the murders and destruction involved in stopping his/her father. A good deed to help me sleep at night.
No adventurer's tale ends just because evil is defeated; it ends like anyone's tale ends, in death. Sometimes a person's greatest deeds are the ones they do to atone for the deeds people remember them by.

That's actually a very philosophical way to put it. and no, I'm not even nearly 6' 5",
(shorter)

Edit: That almost doesn't sound as bad as the pleasure slave angle, but I must ask, will your method of killing him be to brutally beat him, throw him against a wall and then death-beam him/her through the heart while they tearfully soliloquize their reasons and beg for their recently met rival to avenge them. Go on, Guess where this comes from.

also, apologies for mega-post.

 

[Mechsoap]

kill them both mercilessly, or kill my enemy and brainwash his child to be my sidekick or so

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Sorry but the child must know his father had committed a wrong and therefore must pay for his actions. If they feel the need to come to my lair and exact the proper revenge then I await the threat.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Kill the kid and cripple the dad , then leave. Possibly the country

 

[Terrorist_school_drop-out]

Chalange him to a fair fight outside the child's view. If that isn't an option I would kill him in front of the child and then I'd tell the kid that if he'll want revenge some day that I'll be waiting... Kill Bill style.

 

[Instant K4rma]

I drop my enemy the same as I would had the child not been there. Then, tell the child: "Learn from his mistakes, or next time I will tell your child this when I end you."

 

[BuckshotArtist]

Bar all the doors and windows from the outside, then burn the place down with them both inside. No evidence, problem solved.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Yes, then I'd take their kid in as my apprentice and take over the world.

 

[Ekonk]

Let them both live. Anything I would do would cause that kid harm it doesn't deserve.

 

[Caurus]

Scenario: You've been on a long journey to kill your enemy. If this was a book/movie the audience would be rooting for you to storm into the lair of your enemy and have an epic final showdown. and normally you would. You have your reasons to want this person dead, whatever reason it may be, they may be planning to destroy a city or they have murdered your whole village, or another "justifiable" reason to end this person's life.

However when you burst into where your enemy is, blood stained from all the minor threats in the way, with rock music blaring in the background, you notice your enemy sitting down... with their child. Under normal circumstances you would have engaged your enemy to a fight to the death (or just shoot them in the face) and settle matters, but how would this child affect your next actions? (if at all)

Edit: The child in this scenario is 12 years old.

If someone killed lots of people I loved and in return I killed lots of people to get to them and then killed the person in question...then I'm just a nob and the suffer same level of arseheadness as the guy who wronged me. If it were me I wouldn't go to the guys house to kill him to begin with - I would think it through

Criticism aside no I wouldn't kill the guy in front of his child. That's sick. I would never ruin someone's childhood just to satisfy myself. In that case justice has nothing to do with it. I'm just the equivalent of an angry toddler unable to control her emotions. Taking him out and killing him on the other hand...

 

[ironmace2.0]

Have an epic duel with the enemy with guns and swords then start singing saftey dance and walk out the door. Because I can.

And the child would get his movie where im the bad guy and it would be awesome.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

In the name of honor, we shall fight with knives!

 

[DaDrum]

i'd sit down to have a chat, and during the chat, convince the child their parent is far more than meets the eye.

once i did that, i'd get the child to leave the room and i'd execute the enemy

then i might train the child as my apprentice, we'll see

 

[OmegaXzors]

If this was some kind of outside "life" ordeal, I'd kill them both. Revenge isn't taken lightly in books I've read. The sons of their dead dads usually want revenge. Hell, recent movies like "Wanted" have plots surrounding that.

If this was real-life, I wouldn't be killing someone unless it was for an enlisted job duty. So, it'd be my job. I'd kill whoever I was told to kill. In that moment, just the "the enemy" since I wasn't instructed to kill the child.

 

[Agayek]

It depends on why I want them dead.

If I was chasing the guy for a personal reason (ie, he killed my father, etc), I'd probably just blow his brains out there and then.

If it was because I'm just trying to stop whatever they're trying to accomplish, I would likely wait until the kid is away. Unless I'm on a time-limit. Then I'd shoot him in the head and get the kid into counseling.