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Isekais will justify having the protagonist own slaves because "it's realistic" yet never have the protagonist, who is from a modern first-world country, get dysentery from untreated medieval water. (hexbear.net)
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[–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

locals can be used to something that won't kill or impede you much if you're used to it and breastfed from someone who was used to it that will ruin the regularity of someone who does not have compatible gut fauna.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    i mean generally these stories last longer than a brief trip so adaption to it should happen and not be present for most the story. we are working with a fairly unserious grain but i think details like slavery existing are more important than if main character has the shits the first 2 weeks

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 months ago*

    It only tends to be important in that it enables the reader stand-in to own people as property consequence-free, which is what I was getting at with the dysentery example: "realism" has nothing to do with it. It's about wish fulfillment for the sort of person who thinks owning slaves would be really cool.

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