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[vampirehydeftw]

Title: After Dark
Rating: 18
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Band: Mejibray
Pairing: Koichi x MiA
Summary: The sun protects us, a shining beacon that has kept the darkness at bay. Evil fears it, for the light is their weakness and they shun it. Even the sun can't protect me now, nothing can. Except perhaps for the man I know only as 'Koichi'.
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[leifang666]

Well yes, by human standards neither Meto or Koichi are behaving at all morally. However they belong to a race that has systematically wiped out most of humanity, hunting and enslaving those who remain. By these standards they're both acting with some level of kindness. Koichi was stuck in a position where killing Tsuzuku would upset MiA and break the promise he made (in his own way, Koichi keeps his promises to the letter), but keeping him alive was out of the question. Notice how he didn't mention Tsuzuku's name to Hiyuu? That's because he knows exactly what would happen once his clan found out. He's doing his best. His morals are perhaps alien to the human mindset, but he's from a race of creatures that have shown they don't really have any. Like MiA will do anything for survival, Koichi will do what he sees is necessary.

Also from Meto and Koichi's perspective, Tsuzuku is a murderer and assassin who systematically takes down others of their own kind. Would you be so kind to a a man who had been going around murdering people of your species?

As for what he did to MiA, yeah that was wrong. At no point am I justifying his actions, merely explaining who Koichi is.

[hamhamheaven]

They are tyrants, but they're kind tyrants? I don't have much sympathy for that. In the first place, they used to be humans. Centuries ago, probably, but human nonetheless. So they ought to remember what it's like. And even if their mindset now is that humans are "lesser species" good for nothing but food, even we humans (at least many of us) realize that systematically slaughtering animals just because is pointless and cruel. That's why there are anti-cruelty groups pushing for regulations on the meat industry; that's why the vegetarian/vegan movement exists. That's why the endangered species list of the IUCN is a thing.

In the second place, there is no moral high ground to be taken when vampires are the ones who began the extermination. Even gentle, timid creatures will fight back when cornered, and that's what Tsuzuku and his friends have been doing. He's not an assassin or a murderer. Because he wasn't hunting vampires for sport, and he didn't start hunting them until they began trying to wipe out everyone.