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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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[–] 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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