Talk:Cockatrice/@comment-77.162.206.23-20140709142029/@comment-25035274-20140709154303

That depends on if you like being beat and raped or not.

But it does fall in line with what KC wrote about other monsters that petrify men. If they don't want 'em, they leave 'em and some other monster comes along and carries off the statue to be her husband.

The cockatrice and ogre are both European monsters in real-world mythology/folklore, so it makes sense that in KC's world, ogres sometimes carry off unwanted statued men the cockatrice doesn't want. And KC's ogres like to beat and rape their men. Sooooooo...

It's not optimistic, but it is realistic, insofar as the setting is concerned.