It Gets Easier/Playing With: Difference between revisions

* '''Subverted''': Dice is told it gets easier each time, and tries to tell himself that. But even after his first murder, Dice continues to struggle with the nature of his work, even after the second, the third...

* '''Double Subverted''': [[Four Is Death|His fourth victim]], however, is such a [[Complete Monster]] that he's able to refocus, reassuring himself that ''all'' of his targets were [[Asshole Victim|Asshole Victims]]. This makes his future assignments much, ''much'' easier to complete.

* '''Deconstructed''': The killing gets easier, as does justifying it, but Dice's personal life becomes more and more unstable as he continues to take lives. He becomes increasingly anti-social and emotionally distant, unable to form any long-lasting relationships because he's trained himself to remain detached in order to make the killing easier to reconcile.

* '''Reconstructed''': Dice is a professional soldier or policeman, and is able to separate his job from his personal life. Killing in the defense of others becomes almost second nature to him, but he doesn't [[Jump Off the Slippery Slope]] and become a cold-hearted killer. He's a devoted husband and father, a positive figure in his community, and an all around decent person who will end you if you threaten the safety of those he has sworn to protect. He does struggle with stress, but his family and friends are there to help him through it.