Mushoku Tensei 16 + 17 Slightly Early Access
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These 2 episodes never fail to make me cry, great choice to do both right away.
My biggest issue with Rudy in all this was the very fact that "it never crossed his mind". It never crossed his mind because he didn't care enough. Which is understandable from our viewer perspective since we know he's from another world and at the time was still treating all of this like a game, but to Paul I can see how that would be devastating. Your son doesn't care enough to worry about his family, and assuming Rudy didn't know they were in danger, he still didn't care enough to even think about letting them know that at least he was safe. Even when he gets told, his first thoughts go to Sylphie and not his mom and baby sister. They're both wrong in how they handled the situation but I feel like people are far too hard on Paul and way too forgiving to Rudy.
Rudy was at the epicentre of the incident, he had no way of knowing the extend of it, and no reason whatsoever to assume that his family in Buena Village, that, just as a reminder, has sent him off to a different city for 5 years and forbidden him from even contacting them per letter until he is done with his job, was in any kind of danger. Furthermore, this is basically the first time Rudy even has a reasonable chance to contact his family, letters in the world of Mushoku Tensei take more or less just as long to travel as people do (since people have to carry them) and they get lost, especially in an unhabitable place like the Demon continent. Even if he decided to send a letter from the Demon Continent there was a good chance that the letter wouldn't arrive before he arrived and he would have sent the Letter to Bunea village, which is gone, so it definitely wouldn't have reached Paul before Rudy arrived in Millis. Sending a letter from Zant port might have had a reasonable chance but there he was kidnapped by Gyes on the day of his arrival. This is the first time Rudy is in human territory with more or less good infrastructure and the first thing he decides to do is write a letter to try to contact them. Sure, Rudy could have done some things better, but his faults are pretty reasonable ones if you only have the information Rudy had. It's understandable for Paul, in his desperate situation and drunk, to be mad at him in a knee jerk reaction. Nevertheless, at its core, him expecting Rudy to just magically know what happened and solve the situation, and then lashing out at him for not fulfilling those ridiculous expectations, instead of being happy that his son made it back alive with his body intact, is just wrong on a basic level, especially as a parent towards your child.
Lets GOooooooo! Meaty chonky character development and the PLOT must Thicken!
Oh, i was mad for not episode last week but all is forgiven! <3
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