Talk:Monsters/@comment-24768935-20140529145716/@comment-25035274-20140611203116

No, actually, the 'always good ending' intent of Cross is still what governs the rules of the setting. Happy endings are what he intended the setting for, and 'happily' is how stories he writes in the setting will end. 'Happily', in context, is happy as Cross would define it.

You or I? If we want, we can write a story with an unhappy ending in this or any other universe or setting, and sometimes those are the best stories. But at the end of the day, when it comes to whether or not the setting is an over all happy one or will have a happy ending depends on the intent of the creator.

What my original point (and, I think, Jekkers') was is that mamono typically have less of the more violent instincts that we find so often within humanity. Mamono 'can' kill if they want. Mamono weapons are usually made of Demon Realm Silver, which, for some magical reason, can't kill a human, mamono, or incubus. But just because that oni's club is made of Demon Realm Silver doesn't mean that she can't just pick up a boulder and crush you to a bloody pulp if that happens to be what she 'really' wants to do. The thing is, you'd have to go out of your way to straight up piss her off in a huge way before she'd want to do something like that.

What Cross is intending most Mamono to be, in this regard, is 'better' than humans. Real violence is an option to them, but unlike with us, it's typically an option they find distasteful to the extreme.

The exception, of course, being rape. They do love that rape.

For what it's worth, I rather agree with Cross' world view in this regard. Our world would be a lot happier if we all stopped shooting each other and just got laid instead.