I write fiction. My Weird Word universe is a dreamlike horror setting. Characters are children or elderly because of their state of mind, not actual age. The same character can go from one to the other then back again, but not by will. It happens naturally.
The villains are typically adults. They use children as cheap labor and cannon-fodder.
Not every character is human. These Other Folk are what they are from the beginning and indefinitely.
The novel The Wayward Monster Girl is about a little girl turned into a monster by adults meaning to use her as a weapon. She is bitten by her vampiric doppelganger and seemingly dies. Alas, the blood is the life of the body... and the girl becomes the doppelganger. The human becomes a monster without losing her humanity.
The victim becomes the hero. Girls turned into killers by mind control are sent to kill her... only to be slaughtered in droves. Monsters are sent after her... only to be slain by their intended prey.
The protagonist becomes a hero by becoming a monster. She enjoys killing girls like herself with pathetic ease... and is a monster accordingly. She only kills armed hostiles, however, never the innocent... and is human accordingly.
The monstrous heroine prefers the easy killing of humans to the challenge of killing other monsters. When asked about it, she explains, “Easy is fun. You can do something and relax at the same time.”
The heroine is whimsical. She does not think about her motives unless asked. Her answer is always immediate and flippant, though sincere. It is not merely the ease that makes the killing of humans fun. It is her own humanity. She can relate to her victims, though they are strangers. The violence is impersonally intimate accordingly.
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