I'm keeping you away from firearms and sharp objects.
Once they're sentient, you have to put them down. Preferably with a shotgun and then cutting up the body with a chainsaw before they revive.
No I can't do it I love them too much!
Then you have to put it down...
Then they become sentient.
Some characters simply just evolve.
At least I know I'm not the only writer to recycle ideas. I must have made 390824092382390482304 different version of my Tori character by now.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Tokita was one of the co-directors for CT as well.
I'm definitely starting to see how CT was inspired from it.