AHA! Found it. This is the sort of stupidity Iâm talking about. I mean honestly I couldâve beaten him up so bad that even his twin sister wouldnât recognize the guy.
Hunter, whom who you easily recognize from your glimpses of him before and his resemblance to his sister, wears a look of brooding despair. Youâre not certain how stable he is at the moment. It doesnât help that heâs playing with a pocket knife, flicking it open and closed with his thumb while he talks.
âIâm not stupid, you know,â he says angrily, as if repeating something you said. âYouâve been flirting with my sister, havenât you? Tell me what youâre up to with her, right now.â
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To be fair, the MC isnât necessarily going to fight back, let alone kill. And if they are, then theyâre not necessarily going to win. Weâve heard about the potential of each individual monster to be extremely dangerous from the legends and the MCâs own thoughts (which arenât exactly going to be objective). And Iâm not convinced that the twins arenât going to be a real threat. If anything, their craziness makes them more dangerous to us (on multiple levels). They donât seem to care about surviving themselves as long as they kill us in the process, and two against one (note that we know even less about the full extent of their capabilities than they know about ours) arenât great odds even if we have time to react before one of them sticks a knife in the back of our heads. That theyâve also shown a willingness to learn and prepare (whether from books orâŚallies?) is another indication that theyâre not to be underestimated, even if their inital attempts can be laughed off. And on a psychological warfare level, theyâve barely gotten started. Thatâs not accounting for the damage they could do without even interacting with us.
I think itâs pretty telling that these monsters have been allowed to attend a human school by their respective societies at all (with the possible exception of the Wendigo) when any self-respecting monster community isnât going to want exposure. They arenât going to want the mobs, or worse, the army coming down on their heads. Itâs not in their interests to be isolated and attacked from all sides; even the most predatory monsters generally prefer to blend in. That they have been allowed to attend suggests that they are under pressure not to do anythingâŚmonstrous.
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Huh⌠I canât help but wonder if thereâs some kind of trickster spirit at the school? Making someone disappear just as theyâre about to land a hit sounds exactly like what one of them might do. 
Hunter steps out in front of you on the path - from his smirk, it looks like he expected to be ambushing you. Artemis darts behind you.
Both have silver knives. You can smell the metal, starting to warm in the morning sun. Itâs a problem, if they get close. Hunter slashes at the air in front of your face, testing you; Artemis jabs in at your neck.
Just then, you hear a low whistle; you are suddenly alone. Another student, one you donât recognize, is walking down the path.
Now Iâm curious. 
Gotta say though, Iâm digging the new confrontation(s) with the twins on Day 2. Heck, they might not even be new, but itâs certainly the first time Iâve run into this scene. Granted, that might be 'cause I tend to pin Hunter with a kiss rather than clock him in the jaw, but⌠yeah. 
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I agree. The twins might lack the skills now, but they are clearly aggressive, unstable and persistentâŚand they hate our guts by default.
Plus the ârule of dramaâ will eventually hit us in the face. Even if they never acquire enough offensive skills to kill us in a face-to-face combat, it doesnât mean they canât cause huge problems/damage indirectly (willingly or by accident).
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I never said they are to be underestimated. I said that their current behavior is erratic and reckless. That plus their inexperience with any of the monsters takes away any credibility they could have at the beginning. But nothing guarantees they canât be a threat in the future. Like @Lys said they are earnest in hating our guts and are willing to learn, even if for the moment they probably saw on the internet that if you chant random words at a monster and wave a lighter in front of their face they are going to pop out of existence or something.
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AwwâŚIncubus is just so awesome to be, so Demon all the way I guess for little old me.
As would my Demon.
I do have one Goblin alternate who has taken it upon himself to try to genuinely befriend Caleb in a non-sexual way and teach him the joy of some of the more geeky things in life, such as taking him to a comic or Star Trek convention.
Why am I suddenly thinking of that David Bowie movie @Quaintrelle notified me of the existence of, so that Iâm now thinking of a certain âGoblin Kingâ and his deliciously tight trousers when you say that. 
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Erratic and reckless = unpredictable and fearless though, which wonât necessarily work in our favour. Craziness is a double-edged sword, but a sword nevertheless.
We donât have proof that theyâre inexperienced though. I mean, the lighter and the chanting is a strong indicator, but that could just as easily be a one-off miscalculation (not being familiar enough with our particular kind of monster, or the trick having worked beforehand), them being fed bad information by a usually trusted source, or worse, them simply being that desensitized to the idea of facing down a monster that the danger involved in blatantly walking up to one and attempting to kill it doesnât faze them at all. Itâs telling how theyâre the only humans (bar Taylor) who see us for what we are and are immediately committed to ending the threat; this suggests that there have been monsters in their lives before. What Iâm saying is that the twins are a mystery to us, ultimately, just as we are to them.
They may not have much credibility, but if the MC takes that view, that gives them an advantage.
Iâm not trying to invalidate your argument or change your mind btw - I just enjoy the discussion.
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All of this is correct. But it doesnât invalidate the sheer joy of imagining Artemis singing âIâm a little teapot, short and stout; here is my handle, here is my spoutâ while her brother waves a light like a concertgoer.
More seriously: granted, theyâre a step above those who donât believe in monsters, but I think we can agree that there are more intelligent ways of dealing with a wendigo than trying to attack it head-on, especially if the wendigo doesnât seem to want a fight. (I donât know, try to get the werewolf pack to kill the competing flesh-eater, or get the demon to deal with the monster eating its energy sources; divide and conquer?) One poster suggested that they may be driven by vengeance regarding a familial loss, so maybe thatâd explain itâtheyâre traumatized and angry, rather than carefully plotting some kind of monster-free utopia.
I agree
With this as well
This has been my whole point so far, the twins are underestimating us and I think if we let them be and they actually find an actual source of information on monster weaknesses and how to exploit them weâd be in serious trouble, especially if they got more disciplined and started making decisions based on logic rather than emotion (like trying to threaten a monster that eats people with a frickin pocket knife.)
And it has been a joy to converse with you as well 
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Oh, thanks! I like the idea of the hierarchy coming mostly from the human side.
Maybe your MC. With mine their heads will be rolling on the floor before they knew what happened, if they are stupid enough to confront me in a secluded place. I would die of shame to be beaten by those pathetic wastes of breath. 
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Thatâd actually make the scene much more hilarious.
Just imagine the twins ambushing the wendigo by following them into a secluded place and then furiously waving their lighters at him like a toddler throwing a tantrum.
The wendigo then slaps the lighter out of their hands and gives them a dissapointed look as the twins hang their head in shame and scurry out of the secluded area.
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Literally something my werewolf would do. Raises an eyebrow, sighs heavily, and goes âIâm not mad, Iâm disappointed at how unprepared you are.â And Hunter and Artemis burst into flames out of sheer embarrassment.
Now, Iâm trying to decide if this is made more or less funny by the fact that Iâm planning to romance one of them. At least on one save. Iâm a sucker for forbidden romances.
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Just tell them âYou tried to kill me? No manly werewolf pecks for you.â
A single tear will fall from their eyes as they realize they have missed the opportunity to acquire some luscious werewolf pecks.
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A wendigo, and a very hungry one at that. 
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YES!
I have found one my fellow wendigo brethren.
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âI know I said Iâd be your prom date, but Iâll have to cancel since you tried to kill me.â âBut whoâll dance with me now?â
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Thereâs a redundancy if ever I heard one.
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@Sneaksâs sole vote for the Goblins encouraged me to check them out and⌠I liked their dynamics. I liked how theyâre not only fantasy goblins and how they have a whole society built around themselves. The MCâs family is the most interesting bit of it, Iâd wager.
I think goblins are becoming my favourite race in the game.
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