I'm just going to comment what I commented in my other comment, alright?
Keine said: When I became a youkai... this became my fate... This is... my own selfishness... I can't stand the fact that I can't be close to someone I love and grow old with them.
KChasm said: In other words, "Your confession of love made me unsure of how to respond, so I decide to bypass the issue entirely my raping your mind and picking out the memories I didn't want you to have.
"Because that's perfectly within my rights, you see.
"Raping people's minds if they think a way I don't want them to think."
OOOOR "Being a historian I can pretty much guarantee a human dating a Youkai is a really bad idea. So I'm going to make sure you get to forget about me and hope you find someone else rather than watching you die and then living a very very long life of loneliness and regret."
The problem is, that isn't her decision to make. You don't root around in somebody's head and change things to your liking, not unless you're treating some sort of mental disease. And I mean a real mental disease, just to get a jump on that "love is a disease" bullshit.
She took a lazy way out. She ran away from the problem because she didn't want to feel uncomfortable. There's no reason she couldn't have just turned him down.
The mind is the source of a person's identity. Everything that makes a person that person is in there. To reach into somebody else's head and change their very being, no matter how slightly--it's despicable.
Good points, KChasm. Nothing but her own fear (which she gave in to, thus this result) was keeping her from saying, "Yes, I love you, too, but I don't want to go through the pain of seeing another human loved one grow old and die while I stay almost completely unchanged by time. We can't be together, so please don't ever visit me again - it hurts too much."
If he persists after that, then she's free to screw his memory to stop the harassment.
True End. You know, true endings to stuff generally leave me feeling disheartened and empty. Rather selfish of Keine, no? Understandable, sure...but I'm sure I've seen some of these romance stories with a mortal/immortal before and things worked out rather well.
I like this end. Keine knows it was a bad thing to do but she wanted to make sure everything ended then and there. But why are we questioning the ethics of how a youkai inhumanely treated someone?
Nilix said: I like this end. Keine knows it was a bad thing to do but she wanted to make sure everything ended then and there. But why are we questioning the ethics of how a youkai inhumanely treated someone?
KChasm said: She erased the history of it, didn't she.
MotherFUCKER.
She didn't do a good job of it, since if it was truly altering history by erasing the history of their romance, the other villagers wouldn't have known about his visits to her, since they would have never happened in the first place.
I don't know why, but I just love a bittersweet end. When it end with a "It didn't end the way I would like" and at the same time "I feel my heart grew stronger".
I agree with KChasm here. Hell I think having immortality or a lifespan of a millennium doesn't mean you have to avoid getting close to people who might not reach even 90 years of age. Instead do the best to make that person happy to help them enjoy their one life while enjoying your time you have with them. So whenever their time comes just know that they've had a good life, and be happy that they may live on in paradise, so that you no regret.
Because even though a person may be gone, doesn't mean that their memory is either.
The history of my memories... I shall sing them unto the wind... Engrave them in my heart...Even so, my feelings...FinTo treasure... forever...
