As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!
I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.
People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

