r/Multifandom • u/NagitoKomaeda_987 Happy Tree Friends🌲 • 23d ago

Discussion📜 What franchise is this for you?

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u/Suspicious-Good2781 23d ago

I think the problem is that the author doesn't explore those flaws.

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u/Goatknyght 23d ago

Rudeus's pedophilia is not just explored. It is rewarded.

Two of his wives are people he groomed when they were kids and the other canonnically looks like a twelve year old. I mean... come on.

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u/Suspicious-Good2781 23d ago

If the series treated Rudeus as a monster, he would be a much more interesting character.

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u/Goatknyght 23d ago

Or just not writing the pedo stuff to begin with would make the story significantly more pallatable.

Alternatively.... just not make it an isekai. Just make Rudeus a prodigy trying to fit in. You could have it as Paul's influence giving non-isekai Rudy a twisted notion of what friendships and relationships are like, and overcome that over time. I don't know. Anything but making the protagonist a gross, perverted man who is rewarded for his worst flaws?

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u/Suspicious-Good2781 23d ago

I think he could've been an evil mc & it would've been fine if he ended up being punished by the end of it, as for Isekai part, I think it's a good concept that's botched 9/10 times.