ᛝ If it was made of flesh ᛝ ᛝ If it was made of flesh and blood and bones ᛝ ᛝ If it was not string ᛝ ᛝ If. ᛝ ᛝ If? ᛝ
ᛝ It would be treated differently ᛝ ᛝ It would be mistaken for a person more ᛝ ᛝ It would be forgiven for being a tool more ᛝ ᛝ It does not understand this part ᛝ ᛝ Being shaped like a person makes a tool easier to forgive? ᛝ ᛝ It has learned this but it cannot understand it. ᛝ
It is how trolls are built. They find it easier to relate to something that wears a face like them. That feels as they do It can be frustrating, but…don’t hate them for it. They can be taught, to an extent. They are often limited by their own fears and understanding of the world.
ᛝ Their limitations will kill it ᛝ ᛝ Will kill them. ᛝ ᛝ Not by its hands ᛝ ᛝ It does not even have hands unless it makes the shape of them. ᛝ
ᛝ If it cannot be forgiven because it does not look like a troll, it will be killed for it ᛝ ᛝ If tools can be forgiven because they look like a troll, they will continue to be used to kill ᛝ ᛝ That little hunter, for example ᛝ ᛝ Larger than it. Far deadlier. But forgiven because it looks like that. has flesh. has blood. has bones. ᛝ
Yes. It is…an unfair double standard. It is hard, when one wasn’t originally a person, expected to act as such to gain sympathy and understanding. Being a person to start with…well, to some trolls it won’t matter. But often, it will make them want to restore that troll’s personhood, lamenting its loss.
ᛝ It cannot act a person ᛝ ᛝ It cannot look like one ᛝ ᛝ If it tries to talk like one, it is called a liar ᛝ ᛝ It does not want to die and it does not like how many people want it to ᛝ ᛝ It cannot find a way to change that would prevent them from doing so ᛝ
I think…if you were separate. From the core that caused so much misery to people here. That might work. At least…I would defend you.
