>>6064427You 100% can do that. Vampires in fiction do that all the time, to varying degrees: asserting their primacy is part of a natural order or hierarchy of strength, and 'weak' humans leaning on technology or God or whatever is essentially some sort of fundamentally-bullshit, anti-competitive communist bullshit for stupid, short-lived, weak dullards who can't git gud on their own. Pic related's ideology, but with more blood drinking and less, uh, milk.
It's just we live in a society where saying that natural aristocrats should be allowed to do whatever they want to their lessers by right of conquest is not a popular sentiment in fiction anymore, and requires caveats, limitations, and contextual justifications to make it acceptable to most people. However, this wasn't ALWAYS the case: even relatively recently (as in the last few hundred years, maybe even the last eighty if you frame it right) 'they were doing civilization wrong and they were weaker than me, so I killed a bunch of them, enslaved the rest, and if they seem too backwards and it's a lot of hassle I might just exterminate them' was a perfectly fine thing to just say in your fiction, and your average reader wouldn't even bat an eye at.
>>6064432>Unless making cute things suffer is the whole point, then it's kosher.Again, though, even THEN, Melvin softened from where he started to where he ended up as soon as a 'bro' and 'waifu' were introduced. Melvin from the start of that quest NEVER would have given too shits about how a woman felt, or tolerated an ally/minion fleeing battle.
>>6064435>spoilerAgreed. I get some of my favourite moments to write out of moments like that, where players play 'suboptimally' because they simply aren't willing to violate a specific principle or hurt a specific character.
