Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-16083651-20170111164432/@comment-26819589-20170122154359

Honestlycynical wrote:
 * "the pain of loss & making people worry if they or their families would be next"

That's... not what people mean when they say mental harm.

The Nogtisune making it look like Stiles had his mother's dementia, making him worry, making Scott worry, making the Sheriff worry, making them distressed, that's what people mean by mental harm. The Nogitsune plays with peoples' minds, their emotions, and used it for his benefit. Physical harm (anything that's not killing or dismemberment) fades away, mental harm sticks around for a long time.

Sebastien would literally kill anyone. If there's a family in front of him? He'll slaughter them if he wants to. There won't be room for mental harm if they've all gotten their throats slashed and body parts strewn across town. The people of gevaudan put up wanted signs for the beast & they put together a hunting party to kill it (I would count that as a sign of worry). I'm pretty sure the beast caused lots of distress for the bar keeper(after killing his son), I'm confident he caused distress when the hunting party was out looking for him(& when he started attacking them one by one), I also believe he caused his sister distress when she found out he was the beast & threatened to kill everyone in the inn if she told them what he was. I would say mental harm was caused in gevaudan by the beast actions.

Sebastian actions likely caused fear,panic,& uneasiness with his actions. All these things can effect people's mental function in negative ways. Which (IMO) counts as mental harm. 😎