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"Slay" is a funny word. I think of it mostly having a connotation of a just person killing something evil. So I could slay a dragon, but not a chicken. It has
by fasigonio 8y ago
"Slay" is a funny word. I think of it mostly having a connotation of a just person killing something evil. So I could slay a dragon, but not a chicken.
It has connotations of heroism.
- Kirth 8y agoChickens can be proper evil buggers. Slaying is júst the word you are looking for.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoThank you! Remember they are, in essense, dinosaurs. Evil little dionsaurs with mad, beady eyes!
- rjplatte 8y ago"And lo, it was an evil chicken before my eyes. And as he was evil, I slew him."
- monocasa 8y agoIDK, many serial killers are known as The Foo Bar Slayer.
- fasigonio 8y agoMaybe it's actually that it's archaic and, therefore, used only for grandiose things? Serial killers are usually given "cool" names. I don't know exactly what the connotation is, but it's real.
- yowlingcat 8y agoIt almost becomes fully inverted in the Legend of Zelda games. I think this behavior is there in the whole series, but in Ocarina of Time in particular, if you kill a chicken, there's a dramatic cutscene of the chicken dying which foreshadows the chicken's brethren registering your evil. They then chase and attack you. You can't fight the horde back, so they eventually kill you unless you get indoors before that occurs.
- kjeetgill 8y agoMinor correction: When you attempt to kill a cucco (chicken) after a few hits it'll crow for the backup ones which kill you. The first one never dies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFRI3byJgYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFRI3byJgYA
- scirocco 8y ago"The enemy has been neutralized"