Thread:Justheretowrite/@comment-34263048-20190113140400/@comment-36855838-20190114151518

Indeed, Hellhounds are quite aggressive.

And there is plenty of precedent for writing hellhounds "cuddly."

Part of the problem, I think, is the common love of people with a hidden soft side.

The disposition heading, and the first two paragraphs build up hellhounds as an unrelenting force, one that has no concern for her partner's feelings and who, quite honestly, a lot of people might kill or run away from in the dead of night, because of sustained emotional trauma and neglect.

Then we get this,

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"In this way, they lash out violently at men with their lust, but they never treat men carelessly.

They also recognize that humans are frail beings, and they treat them with care as "their one and only male," something more valuable to them than anything else.

If an enemy tries to harm their male, they'll leap to his defense and attack the enemy with full hostility and ferocity, unlike how they treat their male.

Even if the enemy isn't killed, they will surely witness the sight of hell."

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This is something new.

Suddenly, the Hellhound becomes gentle, even caring.

They are shown to have a fear of hurting their partners, and to be just as wrathful in their defense as in their acquisition.

And that's the term I use, because that's how a lot of monsters are percieved, and shown off in their profiles.

The stage of acquisition, and the time soon after.

On top of this, there is a high amount of people (in 'universe') who despise or fear the mge monsters.

So the stage of acquisition is often a bit of an outlier phase, where monsters use coercion, deception, charm, or force to acquire a man.

Take the humble kikimora.

There are two 'stages' to a kikimora relationship, the "maid" phase, and the "banging the maid" phase.

Her behavior changes little, aside from having lots of sex on top of what goes on otherwise, because, as I see it.

1. She's based on a being who's supposed to clean.

2. The whole reason they're together is the excuse of her cleaning up, and being supportive.

But then, there's her aggressive side.

That lustful beast, which rears its head in the presence of the lazy.

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They especially prefer diligent workers, but perhaps because of their innate officious nature, many of them can’t let the guys who lead a lazy and unhygienic life go.

Even in that case, their devotion is unwavering.

In order to correct a man’s lifestyle, they’ll briskly take care of his every need.

However, in what may be a vestige from the age of the former demon lords when they had a habit of viewing the lazy as prey and devouring them alive, they will show the face of their monstrous nature more strongly than usual.

They’ll take care of a man’s towering erection when waking him up early in the morning.

And after delicious, healthy, and nourishing meals. At night in the bedroom when going to bed early together.

An orderly life will be frequently interspersed with lewd service and nightly sex.

While living in that manner, they’ll raise the man into an imposing incubus worthy of being their master.

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Here, the kikimora initiates the relationship, which is not normal, the catalyst for this being laziness.

A lot of monsters, in fact, skip the tension of whatever they were going to do if a man were to offer himself up.

A hellhound likely wouldn't put you through a chase, an ushi oni wouldn't destroy anything in her path to reach you, the list goes on.

What these profiles tell us, is only a self serving, careless idiot refuses a monster, because them gaining a love for humans did not make them human

They don't care about your grandfather's knicknacks, or the history of that statue in the middle of town.

They don't care about your free will, or your vows of celibacy.

They don't care what your family will think, or that their ability to only have daughters is going to slowly kill off everybody.

They want the D, and they're getting it.

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Now that I've built up to here, I guess I'll conclude with the fact that this is not a "take that!"

I am merely communicating why this is how I wrote responses.

I think my one of my biggest offenders is probably the story with the ogre foreigner, and if you remember it like I do, I had the guy be super intimidating, and then do a complete 180 when he saw her cry?

And I had this idea, that it was kind of an act, because he had to be all official, and that he actually really cared, but then I failed to translate that properly into writing, and he sounded more rushed, and unprofessional?

Anyway, I've had an epiphany of sorts, that nobody likes really stupid characters, they like characters who are just stupid enough.

For a hellhound chase to happen, A guy has to be stupid enough to think he can outrun her, or that tiring himself out before he has sex with the hellhound anyway, because of course he will, is a good idea.

At the same time, he has to be smart enough to realize that escape is stupid and impossible or whatever once he's caught, and lie down and take one for the team so we can have a sex scene.

Because a guy contemplating how to reach a rock and hit the hellhound in the head to knock her out so he can start running again runs counter to the hellhound's narrative.

She caught him, so he has to be honorable and accept that he's hers now and that's the end of it.

We like this story, it's the one kc told us, and so we're reluctant to change it and make things go any harder or easier.

We don't want to "cut the knot" and just have the guy leap into her arms, because that's not interesting.

Mutual love at first sight is, quite frankly, not what people read hellhound stories for.

But what kinda guy would run, and then not keep running?

Should the guy undergo a 180° personality/motivation change to preserve the hellhound narrative?

I'm not saying that this is bad, I am saying it is illogical.

And you know what, people are illogical, too.

'''So, I guess what I'm saying is. . .'''

Bring it on!