She pauses, looking kind of contemplative. "I guess that seems kind of like me. I don't really know how to do anything other than hunt. People tried to teach me to be good, but I don't think I'm very good."
"Good" is itself a collar, so there's no real reason for you to abide by it if you don't want to.
[ talking to kids about the philosophy of morality and murder really clears the head. they stand up, steadying themself against the shelf. ]
If hunting is all you know how to do, then hunting is all you can be expected to do. If you wish for anything else, then that is for you to pursue. But so long as your prey is treated with love, dignity and kindness, no creature has any right to complain about how you conduct yourself - they have only the right to fight you and save themselves if they so wish.
"Iris and Grace really wanted me to be good... especially Iris. I don't really know what... dignity is? I mean, I play tricks on people sometimes but mostly I just eat them. Or, I guess I eat Beasts now, but same thing. Is that kind?"
Dignity is to treat a thing as it is and not as you wish it to be. To not make assumptions of it when you do not know what it is, and to allow it that which it needs to be as it is.
Kindness is to do no undue harm. If you hunt something, why cause it suffering when you do so? That disrespects the hunt and sullies your own soul by making a mockery of love. Likewise, to be kind one should allow those around oneself to do as they will, unless they feel so strongly about the act that they are willing to contest it with either their strength or their wits.
A world where everyone is kind and respects the dignity of others, where any act is one of love, is a world where no individual holds any power of the other and the only suffering is that brought upon those who live is the fault of the tyranny of life itself.
"To treat a thing as it is... and not as I wish it to be. I think I understand that. I don't know if I know that much about love, but... I think that understands the rest."
She seems like she's thinking this over very seriously. This is BRAND NEW INFORMATION.
"She talks like Grace is her mom, but she has a different mom who she left behind. Or got taken away from? I don't really get it. I didn't know her for that long, either. She was just really sad."
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She pauses, looking kind of contemplative. "I guess that seems kind of like me. I don't really know how to do anything other than hunt. People tried to teach me to be good, but I don't think I'm very good."
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[ talking to kids about the philosophy of morality and murder really clears the head. they stand up, steadying themself against the shelf. ]
If hunting is all you know how to do, then hunting is all you can be expected to do. If you wish for anything else, then that is for you to pursue. But so long as your prey is treated with love, dignity and kindness, no creature has any right to complain about how you conduct yourself - they have only the right to fight you and save themselves if they so wish.
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Kindness is to do no undue harm. If you hunt something, why cause it suffering when you do so? That disrespects the hunt and sullies your own soul by making a mockery of love. Likewise, to be kind one should allow those around oneself to do as they will, unless they feel so strongly about the act that they are willing to contest it with either their strength or their wits.
A world where everyone is kind and respects the dignity of others, where any act is one of love, is a world where no individual holds any power of the other and the only suffering is that brought upon those who live is the fault of the tyranny of life itself.
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She seems like she's thinking this over very seriously. This is BRAND NEW INFORMATION.
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[ a pause, and then: ]
You know Grace and Iris?
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"She talks like Grace is her mom, but she has a different mom who she left behind. Or got taken away from? I don't really get it. I didn't know her for that long, either. She was just really sad."
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Would you like to accompany this beast while it does more..."research"? You seemed to have been interested in its presence, for whatever reason.
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Actually this might be Miaoshan from when she went by that name?
"Teach me more things, all right?"
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Ah. Well, alright. This beast isn't very good at teaching much besides the principles of Our Lady's love, but it will do its best.
[ and with that they are moving on. ]
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Also she wants to hold your hand.
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normally they wouldn't really want to but it's Miaoshan (maybe?) so it's okay. ]
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