Talk:Goddess Ilias/@comment-2037710-20130723222131/@comment-109.52.228.33-20130816200501

Well, for Ilias it's a matter of interpretation, mostly my personal obsession with psychoanalizing the characters of every story I read. What I was trying to say is that she has a big infallibility complex, and the fact that she pretty much outright says that monsters are evil because she says so and Luka betrayed her because he exhibited some independent thinking ("Monsters are evil and must be wiped out." "Why?" "Because I say so." "But isn't that quite a weak motivation?" "DIE YOU BLOODY HERETIC!") are the main reason why I have this opinion. But then again, it is just personal interpretation. As for the "monsters going easy on Luka" subject, I'm merely saying that using pleasure attacks rather than physical attacks doesn't automatically mean that they're going easy on him. About slimes, for example, only a few are carnivorous and will actually digest Luka (the Blob girl in Undine's Spring or Erubetie), it's pretty safe to assume that the others feed on semen and simply don't have the strength to outright kill Luka, not to mention that it would probably be faster to get him off rather than trying to kill him by asphyxiation (he can break free from the slime, remember). Plus, many monsters simply lack the intelligence to elaborate any tactics. As for the "monsters could easily wipe out humanity if they wanted to", I can only answer: Black Alice. She was, for what we know, the only Monster Lord to actually wage war against humanity, and she still lost to Heinrich (who, unlike Luka, didn't have the advantage of being half-angel... probably). So no, even in the unlikely evenience monsters banded together (and let's remember that most monsters simply don't care about wiping out humans and are content with staying in their habitat and prey upon the few humans they meet) they wouldn't wipe out humanity. A single monster in most cases can overpower a single human (and not all monsters are the Four Heavenly Knights), but humans have the advantage of numbers and even technology (Grangold, for example. The seal for the Ant Queen was Promestein's invention, but they came up with the rest by themselves, IIRC).

That said, I'm very happy to see that you're being civil and even friendly, so I agree with your idea of agreeing to disagree (try to say that three times, fast, holding a spoon in your mouth!) and wish you a nice day.