It's possible that the guy isn't actually a person who chose to sell/loan his body, but is in fact an empty vessel created just to be an ambulatory livestreaming tool. That's not what I got on the first read, but Becca suggested it and I went back and looked, and it is a plausible reading.
On the other hand, I feel like if you're going to make a plot point like this, you need to be explicitly clear about that, actually! Otherwise readers might think that your protagonist just shot a guy in the head for crimes that under my society's morality, at least, he did not personally commit! And anyway the "crime" was just trespassing and, uh, "threatening" her moose friend by mentioning moose jerky with a sneer. (In a contest between one random dude sitting by a campfire and a moose at close range, I would not bet on the dude, even without an armed park ranger friend on the moose's side. I do not think this was a credible threat, is what I'm saying, and so the justification has some pretty unsavory echoes to me.)
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It's possible that the guy isn't actually a person who chose to sell/loan his body, but is in fact an empty vessel created just to be an ambulatory livestreaming tool. That's not what I got on the first read, but Becca suggested it and I went back and looked, and it is a plausible reading.
On the other hand, I feel like if you're going to make a plot point like this, you need to be explicitly clear about that, actually! Otherwise readers might think that your protagonist just shot a guy in the head for crimes that under my society's morality, at least, he did not personally commit! And anyway the "crime" was just trespassing and, uh, "threatening" her moose friend by mentioning moose jerky with a sneer. (In a contest between one random dude sitting by a campfire and a moose at close range, I would not bet on the dude, even without an armed park ranger friend on the moose's side. I do not think this was a credible threat, is what I'm saying, and so the justification has some pretty unsavory echoes to me.)