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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
2024-08-05 17:05:33
Mercy Kill, Kill the Ones You Love, Bleed 'Em and Weep, potentially Cradling Your Kill
Edited by eroock
StarTropes
Since: May, 2014
Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)

For some reason, a character (who's usually a good guy) has to kill a friend who's incredibly naïve and pure of heart, so he takes the friend somewhere isolated, talks about some happy stuff and kills the friend without warning, with tears in his eyes.
Usually it's because the victim would suffer a Fate Worse than Death if he was alive (like if he's been bitten by a Zombie, would face torture, long painful illness).