Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25282469-20140809024515/@comment-213.119.32.191-20141202165013

Party - Hey, I understand. Part of the appeal of some mamono is that they are agressive predators. Like the Manticore, or Werewolf, or Sandworm... But here are also mamono who are more appealing by not being predators. Granted, as I said, those mamono tend to be better at surpressing those urges and can peacefully coexist with humans and not rape anybody until they have a husband.

Thing is, what I find unappealing about this setting is that it seems that, in the end, very few humans can choose which mamono he ends up with. This is due to the mamono's predator mindset that that particular man is attractive prey and want to keep him, even if he wanted to propose to another. I mean, I wouldn't be happy if I wanted to propose to a Yeti I set my sights on, but happened to run into and be claimed by an agressive Ogre. Or that I wanted to propose to a Shirohebi, but a Joruogumo attacked me on the way there and raped me so hard I'd be a broken shell of a man. And concerning that last one, I don't care what KC says, that in no way can be interpreted as "love".

Of course, like I mentioned repeatedly, people have told me that mamono do care if you love them back and are attracted to you as well, and if you aren't they'll sadly let you go. But until it is officialy translated and comfirmed, it's just wishful thinking instead of an irrefutible fact about the setting.

About my other choice, it doesn't seem very "pleasant" that a woman can't choose what species she transforms into. What if the species is, both in behavior and appearance, too contrary with the woman's original personality? I know KC said that a transformed women's personality hardly changes, but how does that fit with the signature disposition each species has and if their physiology doesn't match (I mean, who would want to become an immobile Matango?) It would be a lot nicer if, for example, a human woman became Matango (very likely considereing how those things reproduce) but if she desired so, her DE can change her into a species more in line with her original self.

Heck, it's even said that a Mamono's DE can slightly change her appearance to be more appealing to her husband's preferences.

I also wonder, what if the woman was a violent criminal? She can't possibly keep those traits as those go against the very core of each mamono's nature. How is that resolved?

...this escalated surprisingly quick...