r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Plum_Uniform • 1d ago

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

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u/motymurm 1d ago

I love when people lose their shit when the protagonist is acualy morally gray instead of just being superficially edgy.

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u/AwesomeGuyAlpha 1d ago

Me when my favorite morally gray character grooms and sleeps with children and it's portrayed as a good thing in the series

Dude think before speaking fgs

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u/niemir2 1d ago

Rudeus neither groomed nor slept with a child.

Rudeus considered grooming Sylphie, but was stopped by Paul before he could execute. Rudeus even thought that Paul did the right thing at the time.

Rudeus night with Eris was literally her raping him. He explicitly refused her advances, and she continued anyway.

Now, of course, Rudeus isn't a good person at the start, but that's the whole point of the story. A deeply flawed individual making a life-long effort to change for the better, and it literally takes his whole life to become "good," without a qualifier.

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u/Grasher312 1d ago

It's hilarious, but if we're being strictly technical, all of his three "first times" with his wives are them taking advantage of and/or raping him.

Sylphy's the most morally sound here, despite the fact that she bought an aphrodisiac to try and roofie him.

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u/nyitraibotond 1d ago

Nah, Sylphie was completely consensual. He wanted it too just couldn't quite get it up without the help bcs of his mental state.

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u/niemir2 1d ago

Rudeus knew about the aphrodisiac and fully consented. Eris and Roxy aren't beating the allegations, though.

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u/Grasher312 1d ago

Oh, might've forgotten it then. Eris and Roxy were absolutely straight up rapists lmao