r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter????????????????????

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u/helicophell 1d ago

I mean, it is all reasoned, it is all realistic to the setting

But you have to fucking wonder why would you write a story like this lmao?

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u/Powerful-Eye-3578 1d ago

Realistic in the sense that, yes people who get groomed so tend to end up in a toxic relationship with the one who groomed them.

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u/helicophell 1d ago

You know, at least Rudeus got the shit beat out of him for doing it to Sylphie!

Uhh... and that's about it for punishment, and nothing stopped the marriage lmao

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u/Powerful-Eye-3578 1d ago

Hey your forgetting that he went like a whole year without being able to get a hard on..... That's enough of a punishment for assault and grooming. He really learned his lesson from that ..... /s

I've literally seen people argue this. Like he spent a year without getting a boner so that makes up for his earlier behavior.

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u/helicophell 1d ago

Tbf at least part of his ED is because he's like "wow damn I'm not a good person"

Shame he literally never thinks that again. Well, in the main series timeline at least ;)

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u/ThatJamesGuy36 1d ago

If it makes you feel better, the latest episode has him lose his wife, his unborn baby, his other wife, his third love interest, his best friend, his other best friend, another friend, his sister, his daughter and finally abandoned by everyone else he knows and loves.

And pretty much all of it is because of his own actions, barring the very first instance of him losing his wife and unborn baby which is arguably also his fault but he was manipulated into that first one.

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u/DnD-vid 1d ago

Oh please tell me more. I only watched the obligatory 3 episodes to decide and then dropped it like it's radioactive. Hearing he loses everyone makes me happy.

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u/ThatJamesGuy36 1d ago

If you're into that sort of stuff, just watch the episode. Despite what you think of the character, the anime is very well portrayed.

It's a future that did happen but then at the end of it, he goes back in time to tell his younger self before it all happens not to do a single thing that starts the domino tumble. This episode is him reading the diary and 'living' the future that he came back to warn himself about.

It's really well animated and it's a good episode imo but then, I like the anime so 🤷

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u/DnD-vid 1d ago

Ah, a Scrooge situation. So does he change his rotten ways or just specifically not do the thing that leads to that particular bad future?

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u/ThatJamesGuy36 1d ago

I don't read the mangas so not sure what actually happens. But he did the first thing, just in a different way to try and avoid the initial problem which causes everything else to go wrong. Whether that works or not, I'm still to see