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

[iLikeHippos]

Call me a pussy, but i'd stun the father and try get him to jail.

Than the son might not have a grudge at me later.

 

[stonethered]

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.

 

[Tonimata]

One day, that child will seek me out for revenge.

And I will await him.

For the cycle of revenge never ends.

No
In my case, I'd kill them both. The question would be, whom first? The father, so that the kid gets to watch in horror how I stab life, organs and a sense of humour out of him just to be able to dance on a corpse in what is a thinly disguised summoning ritual for the un-creatures of the darkest abyss, or the child, so that the father gets to watch me do all of the above to his child?
Oooh, the dilemma of choice. Although I might as well just do it to both of them at the same time.

 

[iFail69]

I would leave the house, invest in a sniper rifle and take him out on his way to work.

then I will have no revenge problems

 

[Purple Shrimp]

Killing children is a little mean imo

 

[Walker100]

id still kill the bad guy. I'd try to get the kid to leave the room first, but in the end I'd still kill him and explain to the child why I did it. If he wants revenge or whatever, im fine with it so long as he doesnt go after my friends or family in the future - then ill take him down too even iof I dont enjoy it

 

[Nuke_em_05]

Well, for me to actually want to kill somebody, would have had to have done something so heinous that they probably wouldn't be the type of person to have a 12-year old child. That, or they'd sooner kill me.

That said, such a person would be made dead, kid or no. As well as the kid. At 12, raised by someone twisted enough to have done something to earn me wanting them dead; they're pretty much very messed up at that point or just as evil as their father. Also, they'd be really messed up even further seeing their father murdered. Also, never kill the generation above when the generation below is, or will be, conscious of it; they will seek revenge. Even if you raise them as your own, either they will fake the premise of being loyal, biding their time, or eventually they will remember that you killed their daddy.

This is all very hypothetical as I can't foresee a relationship deteriorating to that point, and if I really was mad enough to kill, that's the rationale I'd use, if any.

 

[londelen]

It's flashing time.

 

[orangebandguy]

Kill him anyway, if I'm on a revenge hunt chances are that bastard deserved what's coming to him.

The child will come after me and we fight to the death whereupon I die satisfied I have redeemed myself.

 

[Captain Blackout]

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.

This desperately needed a poll, so I could see at a glance how depraved humanity really is.

 

[Bat Vader]

I would most likely tell the kid what his father did so the kid can see can how horrible their father was and hate them. That way my enemy can live broken and alone and his kid is still alive to make him feel broken and alone.

 

[Sebenko]

Kill them both.

The villian for being a dick, the child for being my inevitable downfall if I let him live.

We just have to hope he doesn't have plot immortality.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Id kill him then pull a darth vader on the kid

 

[Communist partisan]

I would kill the father and make the kid a vegetable.

 

[Dungus]

The kid was raised by my enemy, therefore he is as corrupted as he is. And if I wouldn't kill the kid, he may want revenge in the future.

 

[Mozza444]

One day, that child will seek me out for revenge.

And I will await him.

For the cycle of revenge never ends.

That's why you should kill the kid too, obviously he is the spawn of satan

 

[ScarlettRage]

One day, that child will seek me out for revenge.

And I will await him.

For the cycle of revenge never ends.

afro

 

[Stillve]

I'd leave 'em be and go out for some coffee. Realize this terrible quest of vengeance was really just me getting some groceries and being annoyed by that one dang shopkeeper that eyes me like I'm a burglar. Pie would be nice. Yeah...

 

[Sansha]

Kill my enemy, take the child to raise as my own...

I'd make a damn good father...

What he said.

 

[Jeronus]

I'd kill his dad then I would hand the child my sword and tell him to try it. If he did, I would counter his blow and tell him to come at me again in about ten years. If he didn't, I would call him a punk ass ***** and walk away laughing. Either way I will scar him for life.