Have you ever had a scene in a fictional story where you thought: "Man, if only they'd talk to each other, they have both good reasons and arguments for their actions. Maybe they can talk it out instead"? Well, this is the thread for you.
My example comes from LISA The Painful and LISA The Joyful. To make the story as short as possible, the protagonist, Brad, lives in the post-apocalyptic place of Olathe, a world where all women have disappeared after an event called the White Flash. One day Brad finds a baby, brings it home, and realizes the baby is a girl. He decides that rather than hand her over to some warlord that are rampaging across the country, he'd try to raise her and give her a normal life. It worked somewhat, despite his drug addiction. Then, when Buddy turned 13, she got abducted. Brad, like the father he tries to be, pursues. What follows, is a steady detoriation of his moral character as he begins to take worse and worse actions to get to whoever abducted his daughter.
And here's the important thing: At the end of the game, when he finally reunites with her, she is angry at him because he was overprotective, he never let her make her own choices, she spend most of her life stuck in their home, only allowed outside with a mask.
So that's where I thought both sides had a point: Buddy was right that she had a right to self-determination and choosing what she wants to do with her life. If that meant joining a warlord and fulfilling what she believed to be her destiny, then there's little that can be done about it. Brad primary reason for raising her was atoning for his past failings and sins. He did grow to love her, but at first she was a tool for redemption to him. On the other hand, Brad was correct that the whole wasteland of Olathe is filled (or rather "was" after Brad and Buddy were done) with perverts, idiots, and sickos, each who wouldn't have cared about what Buddy wanted, and used her as a bargaining chip.
So, what examples can you think of?
My example comes from LISA The Painful and LISA The Joyful. To make the story as short as possible, the protagonist, Brad, lives in the post-apocalyptic place of Olathe, a world where all women have disappeared after an event called the White Flash. One day Brad finds a baby, brings it home, and realizes the baby is a girl. He decides that rather than hand her over to some warlord that are rampaging across the country, he'd try to raise her and give her a normal life. It worked somewhat, despite his drug addiction. Then, when Buddy turned 13, she got abducted. Brad, like the father he tries to be, pursues. What follows, is a steady detoriation of his moral character as he begins to take worse and worse actions to get to whoever abducted his daughter.
And here's the important thing: At the end of the game, when he finally reunites with her, she is angry at him because he was overprotective, he never let her make her own choices, she spend most of her life stuck in their home, only allowed outside with a mask.
So that's where I thought both sides had a point: Buddy was right that she had a right to self-determination and choosing what she wants to do with her life. If that meant joining a warlord and fulfilling what she believed to be her destiny, then there's little that can be done about it. Brad primary reason for raising her was atoning for his past failings and sins. He did grow to love her, but at first she was a tool for redemption to him. On the other hand, Brad was correct that the whole wasteland of Olathe is filled (or rather "was" after Brad and Buddy were done) with perverts, idiots, and sickos, each who wouldn't have cared about what Buddy wanted, and used her as a bargaining chip.
So, what examples can you think of?
