So I'm a Spider, So What? - Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?

[Munsu]

It's only self defense until they try to flee. And if you prevent their escape, that's no longer self defense. It's revenge.

When do you presume she knew they were trying to flee? How do you know that she was trying to block their escape? She doesn't know the way out as it is. She only attacked when they attacked her, and this isn't the first time they destroyed one of her homes.

You can see this in multiple ways, killing some of them sends a message to stop fucking with her. Trying to kill all of them means that she could also be worried of the survivors being able to lead bigger parties towards her location (which has already happened to her in the past). There's safety in leaving no witnesses. She could've also meant to not kill anyone, but they attacked her and she underestimated her strength and overestimated that from humans, she did appraisal on the most powerful human wizard after all (who was later doing a massive spell)... and mix that with being angry as fuck, those are the results.

Heck, she doesn't seem aware that they can't understand her or hear her. For all we can tell, they ignored whatever she was saying and attacked her so she defended herself.

But we didn't get her POV, just her aftermath rationalization, something she always does when things don't go quite the way she planned them.

In the end, they were enemies and attacked her. She fought back, don't know more than that. She's been in constant danger and trying to survive since she was born, if you can't sympathize with that just because this time around the enemies were humans... well, that's on you.

Other than that, my appreciation is that she doesn't particularly care about humans, as in she's indifferent to them.

[DarthEnderX]

When do you presume she knew they were trying to flee? How do you know that she was trying to block their escape? She doesn't know the way out as it is.

Why would she block ANY direction unless it was to prevent them from getting away from her?

Escape doesn't just mean "back the way they came" it means "away from her". If she's webbing up passages, it's because she doesn't want them to go where she can't get them.

You can see this in multiple ways, killing some of them sends a message to stop fucking with her. Trying to kill all of them means that she could also be worried of the survivors being able to lead bigger parties towards her location (which has already happened to her in the past). There's safety in leaving no witnesses.

Yes. That IS how a complete monster would rationalize it. Thank you for making my point.

he's been in constant danger and trying to survive since she was born, if you can't sympathize with that just because this time around the enemies were humans... well, that's on you.

Is that supposed to make me think that position is actually some kind of hot take?

As a former human, she knows humans are thinking, feeling people, and not just animals, like she could have assumed everything else she's killed has been.

[Munsu]

Why would she block ANY direction unless it was to prevent them from getting away from her?

Escape doesn't just mean "back the way they came" it means "away from her". If she's webbing up passages, it's because she doesn't want them to go where she can't get them.

From the aftermath you can tell she simply dropped from where she was hanging and had it mind to "chew them out" for destroying her shit, nothing more nothing less. The old man THOUGHT she was blocking their escape. From her POV, she wasn't really blocking their escape, but again that doesn't answer the question on when she became aware that they were trying to flee, at no point did they did such a thing until they attacked her and she fought back and some ran. In fact, those that ran away she simply "marked".

[Munsu]

Why would she block ANY direction unless it was to prevent them from getting away from her?

Escape doesn't just mean "back the way they came" it means "away from her". If she's webbing up passages, it's because she doesn't want them to go where she can't get them.

Yes. That IS how a complete monster would rationalize it. Thank you for making my point.

It's a coping mechanism. But again, I don't think she particular cares, don't mess with her, she doesn't mess with you kind of thing.

Is that supposed to make me think that position is actually some kind of hot take?

As a former human, she knows humans are thinking, feeling people, and not just animals, like she could have assumed everything else she's killed has been.

Yet they're attacking her, so... she has to deal with it and keep surviving.