Thread:Aggression25/@comment-5142966-20140903043950/@comment-25322628-20140917042957

That's right. The anime, too, but it's a moot topic. There's that, there's Wolf, different variations of the Transformers series, including Beast Wars/Beast Machines, Godzilla and Mothra.

What I'm trying to get at is the guy that got bit by wolf and turned into one at the end of film was still able to make choices and have attachments, even when he wasn't human anymore. Godzilla and Mothra (and forget for the moment that they're just fictional) behave in ways that are similar to people, like Mothra's attachment to the Shobijin and the people that worship her on Infant Island, and Godzilla acting in the interests of nature itself and viewing the MUTOs as the enemy, voluntarily ignoring humans in pursuit of the bigger enemy that would endanger the world on a global scale, even when they shoot at him many times.

What about Gargoyles? The old cartoon series, mind you, that people still enjoy. Unnatural creatures that sleep as stone during the day forming attachments. "A gargoyle cannot stop protecting...than breathing the air," says Hudson in Reawakening. "Gargoyles protect," says Goliath in the same episode. "It is our nature. To lose that is to become corrupt, empty...lifeless." Goliath fell in love with a human woman, and he's a gargoyle, an animal that lived with humans and learned among them and his own kind for decades, able to form attachments, despite being labeled a monster or beast. "We are what we are," says Goliath in the Awakening.

I could say many others I've looked at over the years, but I probably wouldn't get anywhere still. I'm just going to own up to it all: Anything with a conscious, anything with a heartbeat, a soul, a will, can demonstrate attachment in one way or another, no matter if you're an animal or a human. Even the alien energy construct from Virus was sentient and demonstrated an attachment to human in the worst way: It used pieces of humans in conjunction with machines to create cyborgs, extensions of itself.