Would Luke kill someone if it meant saving his own/someone else's life?
Need a little help here for something I'm writing.
I'm curious to know where you guys think Luke stands on killing other people in specific situations. In different episodes he's had no problem pointing a gun at someone or getting ready to draw (like with Matthew on the bridge, Luke tells Clem that 'if it comes to that I'll shoot him first'). In ep. 5 he does join in a bit in the firefight and does try to get an angle on one of the Russians, but never gets the chance to actually try and kill him because he's shot first. Interestingly, Luke, like Glenn in the TV show, never directly killed someone -- or isn't shown to, at least.
But given how Luke refrains from actually shooting Carver when he arguably has 'every reason' to want to get back at him, I'm unsure how Luke would respond to, say, an environment like The Hunger Games, for example. He WANTS to survive, but when it comes down to it, do you think he's totally ready and able to put down a fellow human being for his own safety and survival? I'm beginning to think the answer might be, 'YES with an IF and NO with a BUT', leaning more on the side of 'yes'. :P
Thanks in advance for all your thoughts.
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I think he would only kill someone if he absolutely has to.
I agree with this. I think Luke would do everything he could not to kill someone, unless there was no other choice.
A last resort, I agree. He didn't want to kill Carver because he was not forced to. If he had to kill, then he would.
Depends on who this person is. If it was someone like Clem, then nope. But if it was a stranger, I think he might.
Well he wanted to kill Burrico so yeah.
He wasn't even into the idea of killing a viscous dog, let alone a human. It would take a hell of a lot for him to kill a human being, and that's why I like the guy.
Maybe in an active fire fight but that it. He didn't even want to kill Carver, even though we all know Carver would have kept coming after the group had he lived.
He's basically the reason they have the bad guy dive for the gun in movies even after they've been beaten - just so the good guy can kill him without any moral qualms.
Well, if he absolutely had no choice then probably...but he´d probably rather avoid it if he could.
Luke would kill if he didn't have a choice or the lives of his friends were in danger like in Episode 5. Luke's more to try and talk a way out of a situation peacefully than let it end in violence [like we see in Episode 2 when the two groups meet at the ski lodge] or like he wanted to do in Episode 3 by trying to sneak everybody out without shooting or killing anyone. With Carver at that point they had the upper hand and Luke had known the guy, so he probably found it hard to shoot somebody he'd worked with in that community before things went south, also Carver wasn't so much of a threat at that point because he couldn't do anything.
What is your fic going to be about btw, if you're okay with me asking? =D
Urgh, I typed up a message and I think it got eaten. Long story short, I have no solid plans for a fanfic right now. I just need to get the deets all sorted out first, you know? So thanks everyone for the input.
On that note, I do have a one-shot fanfic I wrote based on the events of In Harm's Way. Basically my friend and I were wondering in which ways fan-reception of Luke might have shifted if Carver beating the stuffing out of him had been shown on-screen as Kenny's beat-down had been so I put my own spin on that. vOv I never gave it a proper ending, but it was just fun anyway trying a minimalist approach to writing and also looking to evoke strong feelings at the same time. I'm not entirely sure I succeeded and it's harder to tell when you edit your own things to death, but yeah.
To quote Lee:
"Sometimes it's kill or be killed"
To also quote Lee
"Killing changes you."
Oooo, you know like planning and research kinda thing? o.o
That sounds like a cool one-shot. I kinda got bugged how the game just had us walk in all 'hey what'd I miss?' and skipped over that and Luke getting caught. o.o this one-shot, did you already post it sometime ago? Could I read it please?
I don't think he's capable.
He might have no problem with killing corpses, but taking life is a different matter. He falls apart even when Clem says she killed a dog.
So I would say yes to the titular question, but at the same time I don't think he was willing to kill the Russians. He uses guns as a deterrence, not as a killing tool.
Also to quote Lee-
'It'll consume you'
To also quote Lee
"PUT THE GUN DOWN, BITCH!"
To quote an urban man
'Hmm. Pointy.'
If he's 100% got to, then yeah.