From humanity’s perspective, Hex is a kind of tragic villain, a ghost who wants to wipe us out due to persecution and grief.

  But put yourself in Hex’s shoes: imagine you’re a human just living in peace. Then a new species of sentient cockroach just spawns forth on the planet all of a sudden. Not only that, but they start killing people at random and acting like they own the place.

  What do you do? Declare war? No. Hex instead learned how to speak cockroach and tried to negotiate. Unfortunately, cockroaches have extremely short lifespans and don’t respect treaties their ancestors made, so all hopes of negotiation were dashed and they continued killing.

  War yet? Nope, Hex next tries to resettle and find a different place for humanity to live. However, the cockroaches quickly invade every plot of land the humans are living on and claim it for themselves. Hex sticks purely to self defense even when they try to murder him.

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  After a few more fruitless attempts at setting up a home for humanity, he resorts to trying to mind control the cockroaches into accepting their people. Sadly this scheme turns out to be simply unworkable.

  Then, one of those cockroaches murders his mom for no good reason. Finally deciding that enough is enough, he turns to the last resort: extermination. What stops him at the very end? He learns that one of his kind was unwittingly caught in the crossfire, and refuses to move forward with his attack.

  From the human perspective he is a cold, cynical monster who wants to kill his oppressors out of revenge. But from his perspective, he comes across like some naive saint on par with Spongebob. Anyone else in his shoes would’ve chosen pest control long ago.

  The only evil thing he did was killing 5 bees in Pollentown and trying to possess their queen. That was because of an ancient racial grudge between their people; as both slimes and bees see the other as just mindless drones. Nevertheless they could probably still coexist, as bees mostly keep to themselves unlike humanity. So that was wrong of Hex to do, but when it comes to humanity he is the real hero of the story.