Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140725003808/@comment-24198837-20140803025231

It actually would be lighter, if he lived.

Think about it - they  set it up  so he would attack them. If they had no qualms with killing, you do know that they'd likely just walk up behind him and shoot him in the back of the head, right? Far easier, far quicker than all the interrogation buisness.

Their actions tell me one thing - they're still uneasy about murder. It's far easier to kill in combat, when adrenaline is pumping and your body says "kill or be killed", than it is to kill an innocent bystander. What I see Merc and Emme doing was trying to simulate that as much as possible, so that they could be as emotionally detached as they could be from the murder.

Trying to distance themselves from it means that they  know  it would affect them if they just went ahead and did it. They may not have had the "strength" to do it. Because of this, you can't say for sure that they would've still killed him if he would've refused to attack them. They may not have known what to do.



The spur-of-the-moment relief they so clearly used will wear off. And when it does, they're going to come to terms with what they've done, and I think it's going to  crush  them. Emme, at the very least.

If he's dead, it means they have to accept that they murdered an innocent man, and it's something they're going to have to live with forever. If he's alive, RT can go for the cheesy (and in my opinion, stupid) "oh, I forgive you" from Tukson, allowing Merc and Emme to live guilt free. That's childish, that's light. Making potentially salvagable characters suffer for their actions is what would happen in reality, and it's what I want to see reflected here.