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This is an idea that I've been wondering about for awhile now, and I can't come up with a satisfying answer. Most of the reasons I've come up with are pretty petty, and considering that this would be a very harsh curse, I don't think that a petty reason will cut it.

In context of the curse, it would make it so that people who are cursed are forced to hunt monsters down, or suffer mental and physical consequences. It's not one of the worst curses, but it is pretty close.

P.S. I apologize if what I'm trying to say isn't clear, because I do have issues communicating ideas sometimes.

Also, if this doesn't fit the guidelines, please let me know and I'll try to fix it.

I am literally writing a fantasy story with a character like this. The character has murdered people and got caught, he gets a choice: the death penalty or get cursed to roam the lands and hunt down monsters and demons while avoiding people as much as possible. The curse makes them live for the hunt while becoming uneasy to downright in terror when near groups of people. Of course the curse isn't perfect and a story ensues.

This is a criminal that people want to get rid off rather permanently, so sending them out to do dangerous Jobs that will kill them eventually and protect people with it seems to be a perfect atonement for their sins and a delayed death penalty.

Sans Seraph, how many times have I told you to put your monsters away when you're done playing with them?

But Mom...

No buts. And take your Pokéballs with you.

Ok...

In the times before your story, a tribe of people while fiddling with magic ended up releasing these monster into the world, and where not able to close the portal releasing the monsters.

As a consequence other tribes investigated the issue, and when the guilty were found they were cursed to hunt down the problem they created, or to suffer stronger consequences.

The monsters have some ability that makes the curse necessary.

Bandersnatches are fierce and terrible monsters who love eating small children. But they have a psychic ability that makes people near them forget why they are there, or want to run away, or makes the Bandersnatches look like loved ones.

To overcome this, the curse was devised. It forces the chosen hunters to fight Bandersnatches even when under the Bandersnatch's power. It's not a fun curse, but it's a necessary job.

Have you ever heard of vampires?

You can modify this basic idea as you wish, e.g.:

• The curse is not directly making the person to hunt, but to lust for flesh/blood (and monsters can somehow be more favourable as a prey)




• The curse itself can be contageous, so the character can get bitten by another "vampire", because the said "vampire" urgently needed a way to satisfy his hunger.

If the question was about "why would one will to bestow this curse on himself", then it can be literally anything, limited only by imagination, starting from it being a side-effect from a deal with some demon/monster, ending with your character being young/stupid/not-really-knowing-what's-he-doing.

The curse might cause terrible pain (over time). And the only possible way to ease the pain is to wash yourself in monster blood or get blessed by a member of the church.

• It might be a way to solve the curse by slaying a demon general or higher, or be blessed by a bishop.


• The pain
  
  
  
  
  • might be a very worse memory that gets implanted with the curse, which the cursed person must go through again and again. The monster blood might be a drug that makes you high enough to endure the memories. The severeness of the curse may differ from the implanted memories.
  
  
  • Or the curse could be a monster, which eats the cursed all the time until the cursed give it some monster to eat. That could explain gaining special powers as cursed (from the monster). The blessing of a member of the church stalls, or stuns the monster curse
  
  
  
  

I hope this helps :)