icanhearscreams: (blood on my face and hands)
Jun Ushiro ([personal profile] icanhearscreams) wrote in [community profile] unfinishednetwork2026-07-01 10:08 pm

[Text] what if i'm the monster?;

[He's been thinking about this for a bit, but you know what, sure. Ask the group.]

[The text is very neat Japanese, though there's a slight shake in some of the characters.]


What do you consider a monster?

Not as in a scary creature from the darkness. I mean as in a monstrous person.

For instance, how many people does it take for them to kill before they're a monster? Even if they were trying to protect people?


[That part's crossed out, but it's still faintly legible.]

Or could it just be as simple as treating someone badly who didn't deserve it? Is that person a monster?

I don't know.


[He hesitates for a bit, trying to figure out if he wants to sign it or not.]

[Screw it. Let everyone know.]


- 宇白 順 (Ushiro Jun)
blitzno: (real life fighting is awkward)

[personal profile] blitzno 2026-07-02 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
wow r u saeing scary creechurs frum the darkness anrent peepl???

meybe ur JUGEMENT is the reel monster

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un: blood eye

[personal profile] blood_eye 2026-07-02 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Me, Blood Eye thinks. It me. He's definitely close, with his filed teeth, scarred face and body, the grey denticles spotting his skin. ]

If you do your duty, if you hold to your pledged word, it does not matter what others think of you.

However, if you are an oathbreaker. A coward. One who breaks their word, lets innocents die.

Then you are a monster. Beyond redemption.

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flantastic: (hat)

[personal profile] flantastic 2026-07-02 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Hurting others for nothing other than one's own personal gain.

That's what makes a monster.

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[personal profile] birdchasingecho 2026-07-02 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[A very, VERY careful hand, picking each kanji with care, but no signature.]

put two beating hearts together
stitch the seams, and pull the levers...

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voidsnacc: (the screaming helps actually)

[personal profile] voidsnacc 2026-07-02 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[This text is a sweeping calligraphy. Not entirely unlike some sort of indian script, where a throughline marks the whole passage.]

Depends who you ask. Dead people's family're gonna think the killer's a monster either way, even if the dead guy's a monster too.

People you protected by killing that person are going to be more charitable. But even they might start thinking it too. Start worrying- 'if you're willing to kill that guy over there, what's it gonna take for you to be willing to kill them too?'

Most monstrous people I've ever known didn't lay a single finger on anyone else though, so make of that what you will.

-Tenno
strutwhenyourebluffin: (side eye)

[personal profile] strutwhenyourebluffin 2026-07-02 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[The response text is spiky but legible Japanese.]

Protecting people is different than murder. It's a kind of self-defense in my opinion.

People don't consider soldiers monsters unless they start killing innocents for no reason, and they've killed plenty.

I don't know where the line is between 'mass murderer' and 'monster', but my gut says that it lies somewhere in the 'what did you do with the body' part of it all.

Treating people badly makes you an asshole, but not a monster.

殻 (Husk)

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[personal profile] noonlight 2026-07-02 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I think that part of it depends on if you mean a monstrous person as a moral judgment or as a legal concept.

Both of those depend on the legal system you are using and your moral framework.

In the city I am from, a legal monster is a set list of species that can be killed without penalty. They can also be harvested for parts or owned by the vary foolish. That's it's own messy morality, as some of them need to feed on other sentient beings to live, but I would argue that some of the species listed would qualify as people.

As for the moral sort, that's just as messy to decide. One person's monster is another's hero.

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[personal profile] steelfeathered 2026-07-02 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Actions can certainly be monstrous. I'd say it's fuzzier with people. Some people definitely are monsters, but I don't think there are a lot of hard lines. What someone is made to do is also a factor. That same action is still monstrous whether it's done by someone who never had a choice in the matter or by someone who did, if they have reasons that can be seen as 'good' or if they don't.

I don't know that regret makes it any better unless it sparks change, but change isn't always possible.

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unsheathedfromreality: (reflect on a thousand lifetimes)

[personal profile] unsheathedfromreality 2026-07-02 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Treating someone badly who didn't deserve it is a broad enough category to make us all monsters. Don't know I've met the saint yet who hasn't done something wrong by someone undeserving.

Prolonged abuse of an innocent with full knowledge of what you're doing to them might be the line.

Otherwise to all the other definitions you have received I will add: A monster is something or someone outside society's bounds who is a threat to its functioning.

Or seen as one.

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[personal profile] keytarheroine 2026-07-03 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
I would consider someone who treats other people as, thinks other people are nothing more than... tools, weapons, means to an end are monsters, no matter how they dress it up.

I'm always open to talk more about this in person.

- Claire Ryland

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[personal profile] solitarysoul 2026-07-03 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Levi's handwriting is deliberate and kind of childish. He doesn't write much.]

Real monsters send people to die when they could just as well go themselves. They play with other people's lives like they're toys and think they're above it all because they're 'better than' everyone else. They usually don't kill themselves, but regardless they're responsible for the loss of hundreds to thousands of lives. They'll use anyone and anything as a play thing and a tool and throw them away when they get bored.

They send children to die when they know it won't even do anything.


[Levi, though calling himself a monster, has a very strong opinion on REAL monsters. He's dealt with them in the past.]

If someone fights or kills just to protect others they aren't a monster. Treating someone badly once or twice does not make someone a monster, they have to do it for a long time.

If you feel regret about it, you are not a monster.

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Guessing this means you did some shit and you feel bad about it?

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