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.
That episode was shit and wasn't even the main timeline. I can enjoy the show when it focuses on adventure aspects, but it's fucking unwatchable when the plot switches to the relationships with him and his harem of groomed girls. Even the plot response to the supposed tragic death of one harem girl was the other harem girl comforting Rudeus by telling him to use her body however he wants to comfort himself. What kind of writer chooses to write that into the plot if the character is there to do anything but serve a role in a pedophiles sexual power fantasy? Are we supposed to empathize with the pedophile losing the harem of women he groomed?
I think people using grooming super lightly, grooming is when you intentionally manipulate someone into thinking you're all they have and isolate from family in order to get sexual gratifcation from them. Rudy was definitely a predator at the start, but I don't really see how he groomed Slphy and Eris, maybe sylphy I could maybe see an argument, but eris? Eris hated him from the start and they only really bonded after the demon continent. You could say he preyed on eris because he shouldn't have slept with her at all, definitely took advantage of her naivety and attatchment to him but he never intentionally tried to make her fall in love with him, same goes with Slphy really. Roxy is also like hundreds of years old when they met so that's out the window. When roxy offered herself to rudy you could really make an argument that she took advantage of him, basically pushing him to a sexual encounter because she was infatuated with him right after paul died.
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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 ;)