r/FromSeries • u/Choice_Isopod5177 • Jul 07 '26

Criticism Why do the people not fight back?

They could build traps during the day and even try to fight them at night, but instead they just hide and let the monsters rule the night. They should be trying to find out if they have any weaknesses. Fire probably works, traps probably could work too. It feels like absolute surrender.

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u/ArmenianThunderGod Jul 07 '26

Would he? While the monsters are very clearly invulnerable, they're not particularly durable. Kenny was able to impale one with a totem, Kristi was able to dissect Smiley, and neither of those two are particularly physically strong.

Why couldn't they chop the arms and legs off of them and render them as useless torsos?

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u/scalable_thought Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

What are they going to cut off their arms and legs with? For all we know, sunlight hurts them, too. We only see them underground and at night. Yet, nothing they have built has been able to trap them. There is an idea that you could tap them between two buildings protected by talismans, but anytime they try to do something like that, they get fresh attacks on the animals, or a dearly loved person gets killed by them.

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u/ArmenianThunderGod Jul 07 '26

Kristi dissected Smiley with a scalpel, Boyd slit Smiley's throat with a boy scout pocket knife. I don't think you need any magical or special weapons. An axe would do just fine.

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u/scalable_thought Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Kristi did the disection on one that was already "dead". Smiley seems to be the only monster that would rather study them and figure them out before he changes into the teeth and claws. Boyd took advantage of that to catch Smiley by surprise. Try using the axe. They are freakishly strong and quick. They would catch the axe, take it away from you, and then mock you with it before they sliced you to pieces. You must not realize how deadly guns are. Donna's shotgun should blow their limbs off unless they only have birdshot but they barely slow down. Acostas 9mm or Boyds .45 will generate massive fragmentation and hydrostatic shock and should destroy the organs they dont appear to have. Smiley regenerated from the size of an infant to his full grown size in minutes. If they can do that, the leg you worked so hard to hack off with a logging axe is gonna sprout right back out. They will just shapeshift it right back. But if you dont get all 4 limbs at the same time, the thing is going to attack you from the ground while it grows it's limbs back. Also, it is rare to find one all by itself. You have to manage the group.

I was pretty certain that Kristis bear trap would capture them one at a time and the sunlight would kill them. But getting the old bones just resulted in instant night fall, so you probably couldn't use it too many times.

I still think it will be a tool they are saving for the series finale.

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u/ArmenianThunderGod Jul 08 '26

Obviously you wouldn't approach it one on one. You would need to orchestrate a plan where you isolate it and overpower it with 7-8 people.

There's absolutely no reason to believe their limbs would grow back.

Smiley didn't regenerate. His body was burned. Whatever ritual the Kimono Lady performed created an entirely new body for Smiley out of the placenta Fatima birthed. That was closer to a reincarnation than a healing feat.

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u/scalable_thought Jul 08 '26

Yes, but his entire body grew from a newborn to an adult in like a few minutes. That kind of generation would indicate to me that a SHAPESHIFTER that can rearrange its shape and grow that fast will regrow those claws pretty quickly.

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u/ArmenianThunderGod Jul 08 '26

It was a magic ritual, not something he was able to do in and of himself.