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yinsukin:
Aruna
Aruna paused and said, "Its partially right. My specific subspecies feeds off of the strong emotions of a soul, typically the negative ones wearing them down. By doing this, the human can be free of whatever emotional block kept them from their path in life. We don't keep them. We eat a piece of them they never wanted and let them go free. The nice thing about human suffering is there is always a bounty of it."
Aruna paused, unsure if she should be so forward. "Its why I called what you did a perversion."
Kotomine_Rin:
Zeke
He whistled happily, eyes shut against the warm sunlight.
Yes, and then they come back to their old, warped lives again and again, feeling all nice and patched up. It doesn't even hurt anymore. It's a nice system, too bad it's fake. You deny them the chance to grow and overcome. That way, they don't need to change, grow or learn how to avoid the fire.
After all, to be hurt and to struggle meant that you were alive. Take that away, and you're basically turning someone into your slave. People learn from their struggles and experiences, good or bad. They grow and become stronger, and reach even greater heights against the unfairness of the world. Making them blind to their unfair struggle by walking them through was basically no different than chopping their arms, legs, and sticking a straw so you could occasionally have a nice little suck. It forced them into a complacent role where they didn't need to fight with their own strength, only rely on their predators. It was basically arrogance and conceit under a veil of good intentions.
If I'm perverted, then you're a real sick fuck. Even he didn't act like he killed with kindness. Sure, he might try to make it pleasant, but in the end he assimilated for his own sake. Nothing good or fancy about taking something that's not yours. You just do it.
yinsukin:
Aruna
Aruna's eyes relaxed and she ran her hands along her horns. "Maybe but I need to eat, same as the rest," she said. "More importantly, they have lighter burdens now. If their hell is so great that they go back, then that's their problem not mine. They should remember why it used to hurt. I just help give them the strength to succeed. At the end of the day, they have a choice. For some it works and others not so much."
There was a pause, only the sound of her flapping her wings. "I don't force myself into their lives the way you do. Assimilation is looked down upon in the world of demons as both ineffective and unethical. I am capable of that too you know, consuming the soul like that? Say what you wish, but this is a better alternative."
Kotomine_Rin:
Zeke
Zeke shrugged. But I'm not a demon, I couldn't care less about your rules. If I don't assimilate living things, I will lose my own self and go back to being some mindless void. It doesn't change the fact we're both taking things that aren't ours... just to survive our own way.
He told her before, that he wasn't a person. That he chose not to choose. Was that what he meant? How could he say something so horrible with such a calm smie? He didn't even seem bothered by it! You consume to live. I live to consume. The moment I stop... well, I'd rather not think too hard about that.
To her, this might be a better alternative. To him, this was the only one. He didn't even want to bother looking for a better hand. In life, you play with what you get, and make the best out of it. Isn't that what humans and demons say when they talk about being a man?
yinsukin:
Aruna
There really was nothing more to say. In truth, this is why she accepted his actions ultimately, because there really was nothing more he could do, not without help. If someone was there to teach him how to feed properly, there might have been a way to avoid this fate but.... that man. Was that man his father? If so, he did a poor job in raising him. In a sense that was his fault.
"Hivemind demons could be separated by skilled doctors. I could sift through you but... I don't have the skill, not with such a huge amalgamation of souls. I mean I could, but it would be risky. There is one thing I know for sure."
Aruna couldn't help but wonder. Maybe there was a way to save him from himself.
"You may be a fake demon, but you have the heart of one, even if its lost beneath all the human you have in you. Its up to you what you do with that."
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