No, I didn't think it was based on my own stuff (the paragraph's very poorly organized, and just segued into my dislike of what people write based on my stuff. My fault) I chose your story because it was the most recent.
And no, I'm pretty sure I got it. Humans are demonized in that they kill several absol and have dialogue reminiscent of generic mobs. ('their screams of "Get the Absol!" and "Kill the bringer of misfortune!" slowly but steadily growing louder'). Their objective actions demonify them, not the subjective reports of the absol, so you can't say you solely meant the absol to be seeing things skewed. The bit about pokemon being superior can be passed off as the absol's personal beliefs, but the actions of the humans the absol was not causing or misinterpreting can't be. The human's actions are also made worse than would be reasonable, another sign of demonifying them, as there is no reason to chase and try to kill the absol once it runs away.
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Re: Dragonfree here.
Date: 2004-09-27 01:55 am (UTC)And no, I'm pretty sure I got it. Humans are demonized in that they kill several absol and have dialogue reminiscent of generic mobs. ('their screams of "Get the Absol!" and "Kill the bringer of misfortune!" slowly but steadily growing louder'). Their objective actions demonify them, not the subjective reports of the absol, so you can't say you solely meant the absol to be seeing things skewed. The bit about pokemon being superior can be passed off as the absol's personal beliefs, but the actions of the humans the absol was not causing or misinterpreting can't be. The human's actions are also made worse than would be reasonable, another sign of demonifying them, as there is no reason to chase and try to kill the absol once it runs away.