Help me: I am one chapter away from having my MC killing a teen

[NotaNuffian]

In case you did not read the title.

Help me: I am one chapter away from having my MC killing a 13 yo boy.

Context: MC is a reincarnator who was previously a six years old and nearly got his head caved in by a twelve years old because the twelve yo knew MC is an outer demon.

So now MC is seven yo and his golden finger came in with him already killing mooks. Also the now 13 yo is going to kill MC because the 13 yo has his own golden finger coming in too.

So both their trajectory will cross with either one of them dead. And it is sure not MC.

Any advice to not have the 13 yo dead? Because currently I am stumped.

Ps. No crippling too.

 

[VertisGuguChalimoth]

Possibly sealing them somewhere?

 

[Tempokai]

Surprise isekai time lol. Treat him as the protagonist of another story, and sure as hell not of this story. But that works only if it's 3rd POV, where you can make quick scene and forget about him. If he will be needed in the future, you can just unisekai him and voila, easy content.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Surprise isekai time lol. Treat him as the protagonist of another story, and sure as hell not of this story. But that works only if it's 3rd POV, where you can make quick scene and forget about him. If he will be needed in the future, you can just unisekai him and voila, easy content.

So the "he's gone to the other school" tactic?

Thanks!

Possibly sealing them somewhere?

Sadly MC not that strong.

So I will let the plot do it then.

 

[StoneInky]

In case you did not read the title.

Help me: I am one chapter away from having my MC killing a 13 yo boy.

Context: MC is a reincarnator who was previously a six years old and nearly got his head caved in by a twelve years old because the twelve yo knew MC is an outer demon.

So now MC is seven yo and his golden finger came in with him already killing mooks. Also the now 13 yo is going to kill MC because the 13 yo has his own golden finger coming in too.

So both their trajectory will cross with either one of them dead. And it is sure not MC.

Any advice to not have the 13 yo dead? Because currently I am stumped.

Ps. No crippling too.

This is a scenario I have never seen before. Wow. Multiple ideas, just throwin em out:

- The parents of both stop the fight, or something else interrupts the fight.
- MC manages to convince 13 year old they are not a demon.
- MC tries, but cannot bring themselves to kill 13 year old. First attempt murders usually fail irl too.
- Real demon shows up and 13 year old gets distracted. The two do not cross paths.
- MC is unable to kill because 13 year old is from a family with backing, and decides to kill later.
- MC decides not to kill 13 year old because they aren't worth it. MC is unwilling to throw away morals, or risk getting into trouble, for trashy 13 year old.
- MC forces 13 year old to make a vow of servitude, and decides to use them for their plans.
- 13 year old is not stupid. When they realize they are losing, they run away from the fight, surrender, or beg.
- 13 year old has a life saving item that transports them to safety.

Since you said they are kids, lmao, I cannot help but imagine them chasing each other with sticks and yelling, 'I winnnn!' Lmao.

 

[NotaNuffian]

This is a scenario I have never seen before. Wow. Multiple ideas, just throwin em out:

- The parents of both stop the fight, or something else interrupts the fight.
- MC manages to convince 13 year old they are not a demon.
- MC or the 13 year old try, but can't bring themselves to kill each other. First attempt murders usually fail irl too.
- Real demon shows up and 13 year old gets distracted. The two do not cross paths.
- MC is unable to kill because 13 year old is from a family with backing, and decides to kill later.
- MC decides not to kill 13 year old because they aren't worth it. MC is unwilling to throw away morals, or risk getting into trouble, for trashy 13 year old.
- MC forces the 13 year old to make a vow of servitude, and decides to use them for their plans.
- The 13 year old is not stupid. When they realize they are losing, they run away from the fight.
- The 13 year old has a life saving item that teleports them to safety.

1. This is quite possible. But slight issue is that MC own father also saw his own son as a demon.
2 & 3. Nah, both hated each others' guts
4. Nah, tpo soon for the real demon.
5. Err, 13 yo has backing and MC just wants to kill him now because if he didn't, he can't get over his inner demon.
6. MC moral horizon already crossed with all those mooks.
7. No
8. Possible
9. I wish

These are all good ideas, I need to try and further elaborate.

 

[K_Jira]

Sometimes, murder is the ultimate answer.

Embrace it

 

[NotaNuffian]

Sometimes, murder is the ultimate answer.

Embrace it

Tbh, that was the idea.

Then my heart softened by one of the commenters in SHF and


I somehow wrote myself into a corner.

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

-Memory loss
-Moving away so that they find each other later
-law enforcement

 

[NotaNuffian]

-Memory loss
-Moving away so that they find each other later
-law enforcement

1. Ok, so MC doing a drive by only resulting in a conked head and memory loss.

Then the earlier power up phase is pointless.

2. MC knows where the dude live because he's a stalker while dude is trying to find MC because he believe him as his destined foe that should die by his hands in order to gain valhalla.

3. The law enforcement in my work takes inspiration from China, Brazil, all the third world countries and USA who moves your porch camera and threatens you to do an unwarranted house search.

Also they are sworn brothers to Gotham PD.

 

[K_Jira]

Tbh, that was the idea.

Then my heart softened by one of the commenters in SHF and


I somehow wrote myself into a corner.

They gotta suck it up

 

[beast_regards]

What if the teen was suddenly run over by the white Toyota truck appearing out of nowhere?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Maybe this should be like in one Rowan Atkinson sketch: "One has to wonder if the child might have turned out better if you (the parents) had administered a few lethal beatings."

 

[Ruti]

Any advice to not have the 13 yo dead? Because currently I am stumped.

Have mc kill him, but have smth glow in the 13 yo's pocket shortly before impact. MC think he's dead, fake body is present, 13 yo is bailed out by his backer, and stay hidden to recover from near death. return as antag later, with more power, hatred, and an entire angry faction from a precious artifact being used so early

MC pov: stabbed him to death, pocket glows, he checks pulse, dead. checks pocket, unknown and insert artifact. turn to dust so it cant be analyzed

MC demon satisfied, boy lives, plot line creation + options

 

[melchi]

Put the kids in time out

 

[naosu]

OK stop. Its lucky we came to help you. First off, people will stop reading or listening to shows or books where there's killing of children. You were right to be careful about this. Its very hard to come back from. Its the same with killing a wife or girlfriend in a story. There's just certain things that upset people in a story and harming children will have dropped readers. I've made mistakes like this before. Now I've learned from them.

But its tricky because if you have a real story, you have to make the villains believable too. Stories with weak villains won't do well.

And here's what you can do... you need to unmask the 13 year old. That's your only way out. You have to out him as... maybe he's a 900 year old man demon. That's how you could twist it so it won't harm you. And show his evil intent. Maybe a mind reader looked in his head and saw he's the reincarnation of Hitler or something. You want to do something like that so your readers can accept it.

Or, maybe someone showed up after the MC beats up the 13 year old demon and after the MC burns up the Demons power long enough, makes it weak enough for someone to come assist and separate the demon out of the 13 year old. Then the MC goes home and goes on a date with the elder sister of the 13 year old, who now is smitten with him for saving her brother.

Readers are...people won't like me saying this but they don't like to see certain things. Even if its deserved they can have a hard time. So you want to soften certain things.

What if the teen was suddenly run over by the white Toyota truck appearing out of nowhere?

Truck-kun endings are super popular right now! XD

 

[beast_regards]

Truck-kun endings are super popular right now! XD

Beginning or ending, leave that to the ol' reliable Truck-kun.

 

[DeepWater]

What if instead of killing one kid your mc kills two kids?

 

[naosu]

What if instead of killing one kid your mc kills two kids?

Better make them REALLLY Bad kids then. Maybe they are the product of Stalin and Hitler breeding with demon goats?

 

[Ai-chan]

In case you did not read the title.

Help me: I am one chapter away from having my MC killing a 13 yo boy.

Context: MC is a reincarnator who was previously a six years old and nearly got his head caved in by a twelve years old because the twelve yo knew MC is an outer demon.

So now MC is seven yo and his golden finger came in with him already killing mooks. Also the now 13 yo is going to kill MC because the 13 yo has his own golden finger coming in too.

So both their trajectory will cross with either one of them dead. And it is sure not MC.

Any advice to not have the 13 yo dead? Because currently I am stumped.

Ps. No crippling too.

Is it a shianshia or wuxia? Give them heart demon to the point that their progress is set back to loser status.

Is it a xuanhuan type of story? Make them disappear inside a dragon's stomach.

Is it a Japanese isekai? Punch them until they can't move and then forgive them and give a warning.

Is it a western fantasy? Have them disappear in a forest or the mountains.