Yep, you're accusatorily using it as a metaphor for evil.
I am aware of this usage, dislike it, and purposefully interpret it as literal darkness when responding to people because fundamentally, darkness is not evil and the conflation of the two has led to the aforementioned superstition of people
thinking black cats are evil, along with people vilifying bats (a species I happen to particularly like) and associating them with vampires and succubi, both of which have been similarly vilified in folklore despite not even actually existing.
I prefer humanoids having batlike wings to birdlike
on account of bats at least being mammals so it makes more biological sense, but on account of this "darkness=evil" superstition a lot of people assume such a character is meant to be evil just from the wings.
Vampire bats don't transform into men wearing cloaks, they're not undead, they don't hate garlic, they don't burn up into ashes in sunlight, and they don't have the lineage weakness where if you kill the progenitor all the other vampires spawned also die so no vampire bats are most certainly not
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I am aware of this usage, dislike it, and purposefully interpret it as literal darkness when responding to people because fundamentally, darkness is not evil and the conflation of the two has led to the aforementioned superstition of people
I prefer humanoids having batlike wings to birdlike
Evil doesn’t inhabit animals. It strictly targets humans. Because humans carry the image of God .
I kind of think bats are cute. As you say, many animals get bad raps. Especially black cats
And evil, as a seperate conscious entity capable of picking targets, is also fictional.
Evil in realistic usage is a descriptor for undesirable actions that harm people, not a force onto itself.
God is Light.
You do the math