Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30662466-20190925175125/@comment-30662466-20190925204826

Thanks for getting back to me! Hm, yeah I can see your points, I'll try to address all of them. To start with, maybe I should have used the term "monster girls" rather than "mamono" specifically since I didn't this to adhere to mge, but to be an interpretation of it. Even so, I might argue that they're not too drastically different. It's basically just if demonic energy functioned as an extension of the demon lord's consciousness. But the MGs will very much be real and have their own distinct personalities and identities, and for the most part be a reflection of their intended prey's hidden desires, much like in mge. I didn't intend them to be like Pennywise, the same entity with different faces.

As for their indestructibility, I was thinking taking enough physical damage would be enough to poof them, like the gems in Steven Universe. Again, mainly this element is there to provide a way of depicting humans fighting back against MGs that I am comfortable with. A lot of stories I read allude to a "war," in which MGs are killed or injured, and while the conflict interests me, I don't like the actual violence of it (also, against rules). I thought this would be a goodish way to get around that and still have fights. But... yeah, the fighting is only a stopgap measure. It was my intention for humanity's defeat to be all but inevitable in this scenario. Like in TWD, how everybody's infected so zombies will never not be a part of life. Like in MGE, the only way to truly preserve the human race is to make peace with the Demon Lord, or in the case of this story, the entity.

I will acknowledge that these MGs are comparatively much worse than MGE, but my thinking was more along the lines of MGQ or some stories I read on TFT, where MGs straight up kill or devour the souls of their partners, and again I felt this concept provided an alternative to this issue while still maintaining the conflict. Plus, I was thinking they'd be able to live in a sort of dream reality in the lovelights, which in my own personal worldview is just as valid as "real" reality.

So yeah, I hope I answered most or all of your concerns, let me know if I missed any. And I'd like to thank you for offering genuine, balanced criticism and not just bad-mouthing my idea. It is very much appreciated! :)