Talk:Alma Elma/@comment-189.10.185.34-20140129182217/@comment-184.8.108.200-20140202020325

^ Agreed on pretty much all points. I think the most significant thing we should take away from this isn't that Alma Elma is the worse monster out of them all, its just that its easier to find reasons to dislike her BECAUSE of how much of the spotlight she ends up being in, whereas most other monsters we only just get a little snippet of dialogue, and encyclopedia entry, and thats it, before they are promptly sealed (rarely killed). When you try to observe things based on motives, the state of the world they lived in, and the general attitudes of both humans and monsters towards each other, the vast majority of monsters are evil for the sake of just being evil, and the only show of any king of repentance or change comes only after a beatdown is issued by someone stronger than them, regardless of who is subjectively or objectively right or wrong. Power decides who is right and who is wrong in the eyes of monsters/angels/robots/ghosts/chimeras/humans-turned-monster without fail EVERY. DAMN. TIME. And that is the biggest flaw in their philosophy and why coexistence is such a ludicrous ideal when you see that 'humans' in that world are outclassed by them in terms of power with the exception of a rare few. Significant change in the character of monsters is hastily sweeped under the rug when you take into account just how many of them just heelturned when Tamamo initiated her test at the end of the game, and made me rethink the whole Ilias is pure evil notion when at the end of the day, everything she tried to do before going genocidal seemed to be to avoid what looks to have been a really bleak situation for the humans in the world. Then again humans in that world have very little substance when looked at critically, and I find it hard to sympathize for them and their plight when I take into account just how... stupid and irrational they end up being most of the time, to the point where I can somewhat understand Ilias' frustration with humanity when you look at places like Yamati, Grand Noah, and Succubus Village.