Senki to Yobareta Otoko, Ouke ni Ansatsu Saretara Musume wo Hiroi, Issho ni Slow Life wo Hajimeru - Ch. 2

[Kronous]

i'm tired of this fenrir or phoenix or dragon or whatevershit! can't we have a fish as a pet? for something refreshing

 

[syahriz]

idk maybe pet tadpole might be epic

 

[Nunally]

I think giant centipede will be interesting as a pet

 

[Elrahar]

Lets just get giant cockroach as a pet

 

[Kaarme]

@Nunally It would kill and eat you. A chilopoda isn't equipped to recognise owners or anything like that. It would merely try to eat any suitable prey. It would only work with some kind of magic control, like if it was a familiar.

 

[UncleRad]

I am a girl. Bitch. 😁😁😁

 

[bountyv]

Turns into a human when smirk

 

[Wolfwhistler]

@Kaarme You make it sound like a wolf talking is normal

 

[Kaarme]

@Wolfwhistler Wolves actually are talking with each other in the nature. I imagine the topics are limited and not very abstract, but communication between individuals is important as they live in packs with a hierarchy and also hunt by using cooperation to their advantage. They are quite intelligent as it is, even without being a magical subspecies. The various chilopoda species, however, have less use for intelligence and their nervous system isn't suitable to what we would call higher intelligence.

 

[Wolfwhistler]

@Kaarme You're joking right? You're comparing wolves communicating with barks and yips to full on language and telepathy? It's fucking fantasy. The giant 4 meter long centipede could be the smartest thing and you have no idea because, just like most things in fantasy, it's not real.

 

[Kaarme]

@Wolfwhistler Why would I be joking? It's just extrapolation. You'd only need to develop wolves a bit further to have them communicate even better. A dog, the lesser, more stupid form a wolf, can easily learn a hundred commands from a human master, which demonstrates how the communication works both ways. In fact a dog probably learns much better the human words and gestures than a human the dog ones, haha. However, a centipede has basically no means of more complicated communication as we would understand it. They can't even produce any sounds, apart from what sounds their bodies make when they move. So, you'd merely need to develop a wolf further, but you'd need to alter a centipede into something entirely different.

Also, we can't have any discussion if the basic argument is: It's fantasy. Why make it a centipede if it has got nothing to do with centipedes?

 

[Wolfwhistler]

@Kaarme Trying to impose the limitations of reality into fantasy is pointless. It's one of the whole points of fantasy. Not even worth arguing.

 

[Kaarme]

@Wolfwhistler You are completely wrong. Most fiction makes an attempt to stick close to the home because otherwise the audience can't get into the story and can't sympathise with anything going on in it. That's why in the most famous science fiction, for example, the people and great many aspects of life are exceedingly similar to our own reality, only the folks have fancy direct energy weapons, spaceships, and other external technology. Cyberpunk is breaching the limit a little bit, but even that isn't really out there. Intelligent aliens mostly behave in ways we can easily understand. AIs either don't play much of a role, they mimic humans, or maybe they control some killer robot army in a very one-dimensional way. Because the truth is that humans are incapable of imagining a true artificial intelligence, so it won't make a very good story (assuming a talented author somehow could depict it believably (although nobody knows what's believable there)).

Fantasy isn't that much different, which is why it's most of the time in the same old pseudo-European historical setting. The vast majority of authors don't bother to make the various fantasy species/races any different from each other, apart from some external factors (like pointed ears or animals ears).

So, yeah, fantasy is jam-packed with limitations. They are there for a reason, not because of pointlessness (whatever that would mean).

I do agree on this being pointless to argue about further, however.

 

[Chibi_Chou]

... aaaand now he has a pet 😂😂😂