He’s still shaken and not in a good place, mentally, and has no experience with society. He doesn’t know how to assimilate, and fears he will be ostracized by vampires and humans.
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Replying to @TellerGrim @BootlegGirl
It's not really starting down the dark path given his explicit desire is to bring his father's knowledge to the world. That's actually sort of why I'm annoyed all other monsters are apparently Just Ridiculously Awful Assholes.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @TellerGrim
I mean, the other vampires aren't any more evil than is inherent in a predator species.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @TellerGrim
I mean the basic problem here is one you see in a lot of shows w/vampires or other former humans - they're former humans, which makes their treatment of humans as Literally Animal Cattle hard to justify?
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I think it actually justifies it. Look at how very rich people who started off poor or middle class behave.
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Ignoring the fact that's not an actual inevitable rule, you still wouldn't expect the degree of stupidity of seeing them as Literally Sub-Sapient Livestock.
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(Glances at 19th century chattel slavery and years of heavily conditioned propaganda depicting African-Americans as a borderline inhuman subspecies) I'm really not following your train of logic here. Funniest thing is, you're usually bemoaning "sympathetic forces of evil."
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @loudpenitent and
Hector duped into believing hey, maybe these faschy vampires with dreams of empire aren't so bad, they have *culture* until Lenore pulls the rug from under his feet made me think about your thread a few weeks back about a hero who invades Heaven and leads Evil to conquer Good.
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My point was less about the evil per se, although to be absolutely clear I actually find Ellis' sheer misanthropy profoundly tiring, and more just the entire mindset makes no fucking sense. Chattel slavers claimed they were benevolent stewards, even if they were evil fucks.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @fiddlersgreen92 and
...They did when they were *arguing with people* in order to politically justify what they did The evidence is that outside of the propaganda deliberately spread to the North and into other countries to protect themselves, they didn't really believe the hype in day-to-day life
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Maybe there were some slaveowners who really were mired in Orwellian doublethink and constantly lying to themselves and emotionally tortured because of the dissonance between their self-image as benevolent fathers to their enslaved "families" and the cruel reality
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
But come the fuck on According to their own recorded sentiments from when they were in private, and based on their own daily actions, and based on the testimonies of enslaved people themselves, this is just garbage They happily oppressed people because they liked doing it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
It's like actually taking it seriously that a modern day business is a "family" and that the manager of a store really thinks of his employees as "family" and they just have misguided ways of showing it No that's just a lie they say when they have to
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