OS Prompt 1.4 - Scary Monsters
May. 3rd, 2007 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thecricketerI have encountered my fair share of mindless beasts. I don't mind them really, but for the carnage they cause – they brew excitement, quick thinking, courage. They allow people to realise their full potential, to find that within themselves that they never would have expected.
It is not their fault, in the end; they do not, can not realise the misery and devastation they leave behind. Creatures like Drashigs and Mandrels and Myrkas do not have the capacity for mercy, for compassion, for remorse. They do only what they must to survive, if they've any free will at all.
As fearsome and dangerous as they may be, they are not chilling. They do not threaten your ideals, your hopes, your convictions.
The scariest monsters are those who choose to be.
It is not their fault, in the end; they do not, can not realise the misery and devastation they leave behind. Creatures like Drashigs and Mandrels and Myrkas do not have the capacity for mercy, for compassion, for remorse. They do only what they must to survive, if they've any free will at all.
As fearsome and dangerous as they may be, they are not chilling. They do not threaten your ideals, your hopes, your convictions.
The scariest monsters are those who choose to be.
