What Measure Is a Non-Human?/Fan Works


  • Many Bleach fics touch on this, but especially, Downfall engages this head-on. Unohana treats Hollows with dignity and respect, and as a result, most of the more humane examples gravitate towards her. More importantly, Aizen, of all people, questions Soul Society's "Kill 'em all" mindset. Of course he's a good guy this time around but that's par for the course. The way the war is shaping up, many of the main characters will be forced to confront this concept.
  • Chobits fanfition also tends to go this way.
  • This is discussed in the Urban Fantasy fic Shadowchasers: Blue Blood. The Big Bad has given some of his henchmen a boring job, so they're killing time by playing "Would You Rather?" One of them - Jil finds it juvenile and tells them to shut up:

Sequius: Seriously, Jil, live a little! Here, why don't you try it?"
Jil: Ugh, if I do, will you knock it off? Okay, fine, hit me.
Orlack: Okay, lessee here,. Okay, would you rather do it with, uhm… Prince Kymar or General Leornis the Proud?"
Jil: I have to choose between necrophilia or bestiality? Swell.
Sequius: I dunno, Jil, if you call it bestiality, does that make him more animal than a person?
Orlack: Heh, I think a lot of other wemics would take offense to that.
Theorn: He's got a point there, I mean, I think the big problem with 'bestiality' is that an animal can't give consent, but if he can, well -
Jil: Oh, this is seriously creepy.
Theorn: Not sure if doing it with Kymar is 'necrophilia' either, I mean, does that mean he's 'dead'?
Jil: Undead.
Orlack: Well… He's not dead, I mean, if 'undead' is the same as 'dead'... When someone is dead, they don't say he's 'un-alive.' I mean how can he be dead, he eats, he sleeps, he breathes…
Sequius: I don't think vampires breathe.
Orlack: You have to breathe in order to talk, Sequius. You know, that is kind of… strange, a dead body would atrophy and rot, but Kymar is as strong as ten men and can heal… He can heal better than a living person can, wouldn't that be an oxymoron?
Jil (to herself): I need a break, these fools are starting to make sense….


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