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I have exactly 18 minutes. Can I write an essay?
So Sera's essay reminded me that I'd been wanting to ramble about this for a bit!
Cielo's attitude towards humanity and towards demons is a bit complicated and at the same time very simple. Cielo doesn't tend to generalize much across humans vs demons, and generally judges them as people first.
That said, Cielo is a demon cannibal who has met with a lot of distrust from humans for uh. Obvious reasons! He tends to be somewhat closed off with new people until they know he's a demon cannibal, because, well, it's something that's going to come out eventually and he'd rather not be friends with someone and then find out that they can't handle it. He's been mildly burned by that a few times and isn't interested in sticking his hand into that fire.
But Cielo really has no respect for humans who judge him poorly for being a demon cannibal unless they've made hard decisions themselves, and his default assumption along those lines is that they haven't. This is...slowly evolving in camp, because well, there's a lot of non-demon cannibals who have made their own decisions and are strong and Cielo's noticed that. But it's still a subtle and unconscious bias that Cielo's never thought about enough to overcome.
That said, he's pretty easygoing and tends to take people as they come. By this time in camp, he tends to classify people roughly into more demon cannibal vs. combatants vs. civilian (with a side category of toppy civilians to be respected that holds people like Pell and Ine). But Cielo's a lot more comfortable around combatants than he is civilians because honestly, even after being in camp for over a year now, he still thinks in terms of war and doesn't quite understand the mentality of someone who's never been in combat, or even serious danger. Cielo doesn't like war, but he does at the same time kinda think it molds people so that they aren't weak and helpless, and Cielo doesn't have a lot of patience for people who can't do anything.
idk what I'm even saying but I'm out of time. Yay rush mini-essays!
So Sera's essay reminded me that I'd been wanting to ramble about this for a bit!
Cielo's attitude towards humanity and towards demons is a bit complicated and at the same time very simple. Cielo doesn't tend to generalize much across humans vs demons, and generally judges them as people first.
That said, Cielo is a demon cannibal who has met with a lot of distrust from humans for uh. Obvious reasons! He tends to be somewhat closed off with new people until they know he's a demon cannibal, because, well, it's something that's going to come out eventually and he'd rather not be friends with someone and then find out that they can't handle it. He's been mildly burned by that a few times and isn't interested in sticking his hand into that fire.
But Cielo really has no respect for humans who judge him poorly for being a demon cannibal unless they've made hard decisions themselves, and his default assumption along those lines is that they haven't. This is...slowly evolving in camp, because well, there's a lot of non-demon cannibals who have made their own decisions and are strong and Cielo's noticed that. But it's still a subtle and unconscious bias that Cielo's never thought about enough to overcome.
That said, he's pretty easygoing and tends to take people as they come. By this time in camp, he tends to classify people roughly into more demon cannibal vs. combatants vs. civilian (with a side category of toppy civilians to be respected that holds people like Pell and Ine). But Cielo's a lot more comfortable around combatants than he is civilians because honestly, even after being in camp for over a year now, he still thinks in terms of war and doesn't quite understand the mentality of someone who's never been in combat, or even serious danger. Cielo doesn't like war, but he does at the same time kinda think it molds people so that they aren't weak and helpless, and Cielo doesn't have a lot of patience for people who can't do anything.
idk what I'm even saying but I'm out of time. Yay rush mini-essays!