I kind of figured it was the principle of the thing; this whole perspective is a larp, besides the small amount of time I took some archery lessons locally, but the guy in the story isn’t about to fashion something shitty in the moment.
(This may come off as sharp in tone but I don’t mean that whatsoeever. I appreciate the feedback.)
This story was trying to be… not “neutral” but not “sadistic” if that makes sense. I wrote a response to a thread asking if “you” could kill a Fluffy IRL if they were real, and a lot of the thought process I had during that was here, too.