Date: January 09 2021 1:48 PM Title: Chapter 29: Bargaining
And now Icaria's time with Volkhard is going to shake up her beliefs about "all giant bad". And once again I loathe no one more than Volkhard, especially now. It's one thing to think "These brutes are mindless killing machines and must be stopped for the good of humanity" Attack on Titan style, it is A WHOLE NOTHER to think "I have grown and been nutured by their kind, formed relationships, had loves, surrounded by families, and I will cast it all away and kill them all indiscriminately, man, woman, and babe alike and of course I am the single of their kind exempt from my justice".
If you couldn't tell, "Rules for thee but not for me" pisses me the fuck off.
Author's Response:
At this point Volkhard views himself moreso as a tomkin than a human - or rather, moreso as a human than a giant - so he's exempt from his genocidal ideals by nature of not figuring as a target at all in his twisted, psychotic calculus. That being said, as a contracted giantslayer who understands the human language, he's certainly still privy to the fact that the so-called giants are no less human than he. Icaria probably isn't a good influence either.