I slid my tail out of the zombie's corpse and looked over at the direction it tried to walk in.
I sniffed the air and smelled something delightfully appealing.
It was like barbequed meat with honey drizzled on it, and served with glaze brushed on, it smelled amazing!
However, I knew that much like zombies, I was a straight carnivore, so anything that smelt that great must be alive, and was most likely human.
I tried the door and found it locked from the inside.
'Eh, I'm pretty sure I'd feel nothing if I killed a human right now, but eating one is a bit...' I trailed off as I climbed back into the vents and found my way into the room via the vents.
Looking at the room, I didn't see anyone, so I climbed down from the vent and walked on the floor, my tail swishing side to side as if ready to kill.
Then I heard a muffled scream, and I looked behind me.
A little girl, with doll-like features stood, her hand gripping a teddy bear she hugged close to herself while she cried silently while looking at me.
I turned around and sniffed the air and confirmed that it was the child that smelled so good and smiled ruefully in my mind.
'Well, if you were an adult, preferably female, I'd have no qualms eating you, but you're a child, so I really can't bring myself to eat you.' I circled the child and then sat down and looked at her.
She stopped crying after a few minutes and stared at me warily.
I smiled to myself knowing that I wasn't the most beautiful thing in the world, especially with my bladed tail and menacing claws.
Then I heard her stomach growl and I got up.
She staggered back in fright and I leapt into the vents and ran back outside, dropped to the floor and stopped in front of a vending machine.
'Why am I doing so much for a child I don't even know?' I asked myself while slashing open the glass of the vending machine and grabbing most of the food.
Curling my tail around the pile of food, I ran back up into the vents and came out and smiled when I saw she didn't exit the room.
'It's be a pity for such a cute child to be eaten by zombies.' I dropped the pile of food in front of her and went to lay on the floor, my head facing away from her.
For some minutes it was silent, then I heard the pitter patter of feet and the sound of a bag getting opened.
I looked at her as she stuffed her face and smiled, which made the child hide behind the desk. There were several desks between the child and me, and perhaps she thought they'd keep her safe if I tried to get her.
I turned away and closed my eyes, and welcomed the darkness.
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NOOOO! CHILDREN ARE ALWAYS SPARED IN THESE NON-HUMAN MCS! DAMN IT! I'm gonna make my own non-human mc that will kill the first child he sees just because i see this used so often!
Well, there is really no reason to kill a child. Other than being a weird psychopath. Of course if the child is gonna harm you in any way, then killing it is fine. But do you see the difference?
I was once like you as well, so I know where it is coming from.
From the perspective of a carnivore, there is usually no point in killing a child. Most carnivores target the sick or elderly members of a herd, and will only go after a child if they are hungry and it strayed from the herd.
@JCountry ITS FREE MEAT! THAT'S THE POINT!
@FukinDeadBeat not really free but in the long run it would be better to let it grow up and have children.
@JCountry Then eat the children
Yeah, because indiscriminate murderhobos are soooo entertaining and relatable to read about. Why? I can't imagine better past time than follow the adventures of a ruthless killer I have no empathy for.
What is even the point of shoving a human mind in the monster if he's not going to struggle at all against his monster pulsions? Just write about an intelligent xenomorph who's dropped on earth as part of an alien-planned genocide then. Don't uselessly shoehorn reincarnation in there just because it's what's popular.
Don't get me wrong. I'd gladly read about a monster slaughtering humans guiltlessly. But I do expect a little moral dilemma in my human-turned-creature stories. Or at least for it to be clear the main character was already a murderous psychopath before all the soul transfer shenanigans. That'd be good too, a story about a serial killer turned into an actual monster.
But then again, it'd get boring if the character goes through no growth (positive or negative) at all.
@DocteurNS I was thinking the same thing. I just didn't say it, besides when looking for a good model on a sentient predator you don't have to look any further than yourself. Humans are an apex predator, and a good model for studying the behavior of highly intelligent carnivores. We domesticate our preferred prey animals, cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, and raise them in controlled environments to produce the products we need including meat. Given our MCs intelligence, and mental condition I expect them to eventually do something similar.
@JCountry i just want a MC that mostly does things that benefit him, and that means not being a suicidal idiot that jumps in to save a female they barely met.
Not eating one kid and punching a couple of vending machines is hardly suicidal.
@DocteurNS i mean in other novels where the mc is a suicidal idiot
@FukinDeadBeat sustainable population that's the point it's the perfect predator it knows to keep the Healy young alive to make more young to eat later
@Arielus No shut up. He doesn't know what's going on in the world. There could be billions of humans out there as far as he knows. There is no need to make a sustainable population until the food starts getting scarce.
@FukinDeadBeat I mean if I wasn't sure I would consider it a good investment just in case since if I'm wrong like you said he wasted what 5 minutes getting her food but if she's one of the last then it's a massive payoff later so low risk possible high reward sounds like good stonks to me
@FukinDeadBeat But then again, being a former human, can you stand eating an innocent little girl? And they don't provide much food so I don't think there is a point, morally and merit. At least I won't. But I will still kill women and eat them if I was a xenomorph.
But, women with plastic, i will avoid. Actually I will kill them and leave their body behind for rats to eat.
@Nian Well i can agree with you about little girls not having much meat. everything else i will not comment on.
then what's different between mc and normal xenomorph?
@FukinDeadBeat well. Bees is too a free meat. Kinda. But they are too small and you usually don't give a shit. There is something similar i believe.
Brooooo spare the noobs. killing noobs is unbased
@FukinDeadBeat there's freeer meat in the sacks of flesh that don't think
I dont know. I kinda like how that Child can become a high ranking officer then they meet again happily