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Honestly the Slakoth story is very well written. There really are kids out there that torture and maim animals for fun, devs being japanese bug kids definitely saw shit like that. Every one of those Slakoths are babies with a mother, so forcing the girl to experience the pain of conception, childbirth and the sorrow of having your baby killed puts her actions into perspective. As a folktale it has a good moral to teach kids, and the darkness of the story is a good deterrent. I don't like the Lapras story as much, but the Octillery version is a lot better. The text that he throws the Octillery girl into the water after sex parallels the way a lot of deadbeat dads treat women, so the son growing up without a mother and becoming a killer makes much more sense.
