Right? People get easily caught up trying to tie everything to real life consequences, but that's why fiction exists. To explore taboos, ethically questionable, outright harmful concepts and enjoy them, be neutral or dislike and avoid them. If you can't distinguish between the two, I suggest you work on that.
We can discuss and argue all we want, about the characters and situations, just don't make it the author's problem (unless they support suchs acts in real life). And if you use this story as a jumping off point to ask questions about sa/consent etc, then sure! But again, that doesn't negate the story being enjoyable despite or even because of its problematic themes.
Exactly this! People can scream their heads off about how wrong any of it is but it doesn't change the fact that they are lines on paper/a digital screen with no actual thoughts or feelings and in the end, it's entirely inconsequential aside from whatever emotional energy you CHOOSE to put into it– and man, people are very pick and choose-y with their "problematic" fiction and what they arbitrarily decide is okay.
Murder in fiction? Genocide, even? Yeah, sure.
Calling a 16 year old character that looks like they were designed to be 30 attractive? You deserve to be in jail and not have a career.
Idunno, it sounds like a very exhausting way to live life to feel offended by every single thing a person does with characters that aren't even real and Wil never care about you or themselves, lol
No one was hurt, Mc loved it in the end, it's not real. Don't police people for their tastes, it has nothing to do with you, and you can just move on to something you actually like. Get off your high horses.
However to the people who don't know and virgins in the chat, this kind of shit WOULD NOT BE OKAY IRL. Consent can be revoked at any moment and you don't have to follow through anything you're uncomfortable with just because you were comfortable or agreed earlier, your body is yours and you should be safe and respected always. Make safewords, communicate clear boundaries.