Thread:HoundTheDestroyer93/@comment-25808351-20200826231605/@comment-27666783-20200901012818

MockingJester wrote: @Angry

In a way, we could say that, though it's not exactly it. It's for why you think, but not 'scared' of spooking them. More like that they have a reminder of what can happen when someone crosses this event horizon of despair. You know, 'a man with nothing to lose' and all that.

You should know what I'm talking about. ''It was not part of his blood, It came to him very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Boy began to hate.''

''He was not easily moved, He was icy; willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Boy began to hate.''

''His voice was even and low. His eyes were level and straight. There was neither sign nor show When the Boy began to hate.''

''Was it preached to him in a crowd? Was it taught to him by the state? He ne're spoke it aloud When the Boy began to hate.''

''It was not suddently bred. It will not swiftly abate. Through the chilled years ahead, When Time shall count from the date That the Boy began to hate.''

I for one welcome the idea of mamono, in some deep and primal compartment, fearing humans. Not that it should be used to cheapen their want to make amends, but at the initiative of the narrative to prevent the mamono's message from being... I don't know... condescending maybe?

Perhaps it is my biases, I'd prefer that the mamono not see humans as the 'fairer sex', and too often do I think it is attempted to air-tight mamono from vulnerability that it becomes a question of them being characters or plot devices...

Mamono should fear humans, its only fair that they do so a bit, given the unlimited spirit thing and such.