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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?
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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)
[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?
[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)

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meybe ur JUGEMENT is the reel monster
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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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[Other than the unspoken one that siblings have to each other.]
And if you have to kill innocents in order to survive? Their people or your people.
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cw: genocide
cw: warhammer prefers the term xenocide plz
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That's what makes a monster.
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cw: genocide
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put two beating hearts together
stitch the seams, and pull the levers...
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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
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It's not like I was trained to kill. But I had to.
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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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... Yeah, I guess I'm an asshole, but that's better than being a totally horrific person.
It's... better than nothing, I guess.
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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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No oneMost people shouldn't be able to be killed without penalty.(no subject)
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cw: genocide
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I don't know that regret makes it any better unless it sparks change, but change isn't always possible.
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I don't think regret is going to help anything, since I don't think I'm going to be in a situation to do it again. Doesn't stop it from being there, though.
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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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And then you find out they had nothing to do with it, not in the way you thought.
Is that the line?
As for your definition... I don't know. I don't know if I fit in with that.
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I'm always open to talk more about this in person.
- Claire Ryland
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... Sure. Where are you?
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Action
Re: Action
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Text, cw: kids send to war but vauge
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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I did treat her badly for a long time, though.
[Regret... it's complicated.]
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cw: drug use
cw: alcohol use
cw: hard drug use
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