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Disclaimer: I have not watched Redo of Healer and don't plan to any time soon, so the following is based solely on the information provided by Nubian Satyress.
It's easy to assume that Keyaru pretending to be traumatized by the experience is a dumb idea when he knows what the consequences will be. But can we be certain what would have happened if he had not done that? Can we be certain that things would have been better and not worse? It's easy to assume it would be better, but do we know for sure?
More importantly, does Keyaru know what would have happened had he not pretended to be traumatized? Is there any in-universe information provided to him that would suggest that not pretending is the better option?
Also, some info about the whole "restarts time" thing would be nice. Can he do that again? If yes, how many times and what are the requirements for it? In other words, could he freely explore the “does not pretend and does not get raped as a result” option first and restart things if he did not like the results? Or is that not an option for him?
- But can we be certain what would have happened if he had not done that? Can we be certain that things would have been better and not worse? It's easy to assume it would be better, but do we know for sure?
- If we had to be certain, then no example of What An Idiot or Fridge Logic would ever apply. Anything can be speculated to be a wise decision if we need the story to explicitly tell us bad decisions are bad.
- More importantly, does Keyaru know what would have happened had he not pretended to be traumatized? Is there any in-universe information provided to him that would suggest that not pretending is the better option?
- Same thing above. No, there is no guarantee that a different course of action would have led to a more favorable outcome, but that doesn't change the fact that it's never attempted or even brought up. However, we DO know for a fact that Keyaru is aware that he absorbs the abilities of the people he heals, so he would know that healing the legendary soldier and knights Flare wanted him to heal would give him their abilities without being raped.
- Also, some info about the whole "restarts time" thing would be nice. Can he do that again?
- Not yet. Restarting time only gave him the same memories as before. He still had to reacquire drug immunity and all the other abilities he had in the first timeline from scratch.
The plothole in #4 you brought up is not necessarily YMMV but could be one of the Stupidity Tropes (unless maybe the protagonist is a masochist).
(Disclaimer: I either don't know of the show or I don't want to admit it. Or I took Mind Bleach after about the first episode to forget the abysmal writing. Maybe all those plotholes get resolved at some point of the series.)
^ Actually the rest of that is mentioned in the Unintentionally Unsympathetic entry.
The only part that was removed was about decision in point #4.
Courtesy link to the edit in question
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Here is what they removed:
This doesn't refer to #4 in a clear sense since "the same torment" can be interpreted wider. So I get where the confusion was coming from. You can rewrite it to mention #4; then I think it's safe to add back.
Though, I actually think the part doesn't fit Unintentionally Unsympathetic as it's not about the protagonist being a jerk but might rather be a case of What An Idiot or some other audience reaction apathy trope.
Also, I think this ultimately belongs on the Discussion pages. Dj0rel misunderstood your point but didn't do anything wrong otherwise.
^^ Their tone in the Discussion page gives me the impression that we've gotten into "No, You!" Mode, whereas it's about "winning" the argument no matter what. In particular, arguing about the semantics of Speculative Troping.
Likewise, I got the feeling that his later posts did a lot of Moving the Goalposts, even after the misunderstanding was cleared up.
Edited by NubianSatyressFolks, you don't need to duplicate the discussion in ATT. Please head over here
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To go over this dilemma, I'll need to lay out the context within the Redo Of Healer story.
Buckle up, because this is going to take a while. (If you want to skip all this stuff, go straight to the TL;DR at the bottom.)
I tell you all of this, because a lot of people who watch the series criticize and do a lot of headscratching at point #4, where he intentionally pretends to be traumatized, knowing exactly what would happen. His reasoning as stated in the story was that he wanted to absorb the knights' abilties, but those who criticize this argue that he would be able to do that simply by healing them after battle, as Flare was asking him to do. Allowing himself to be drugged and raped again in the second timeline is thus criticized as only being for the benefit of the audience seeing what pieces of work Flare and everyone in her kingdom are.
An example of Unintentionally Unsympathetic was added by Clown Prince 47
mentioning this exact criticism. It was removed by Tropers.Raquel The UFO for the reason: "I'm deleting this portion because Keyaru actually explains why he took the path of revenge instead of trying to avoid the path entirely. Flare has the power to sense heroes like her. Even if Keyaru denied her request to be a hero or ran away from home, she would find him, drag him back and subjugate him all over again like in the first timeline meaning that a life of peace was impossible from the start."
I brought it to the discussion page
because the removal reason is incorrect: nobody is arguing whether or not Keyaru should have taken revenge at all — they are specifically questioning whether step #4 in his plan was necessary, under the logic that he could have still gotten his revenge without subjecting himself to the same torment.
Tropers.Dj0rel first made the accusation that I "didn't read" the edit reason, and repeatedly made the same accusation. When that was finally cleared up, he then made the claim "And you assume that he could have avoided everything if he played along? I think you are forgetting what kind of people he's dealing here". After I said that this was Speculative Troping, because we don't trope what is likely to happen, he then flipped it to claim that criticizing Keyaru's decisions is "speculation".
TL;DR:
Tropers.Dj0rel argues that the logic of the story makes sense in context because questioning the protagonist's decisions is "speculation".
I argue that that isn't how YMMV works. If people are all having the same fridge logic and argue that the protagonist's actions don't make sense, even with the explanation given in-story, then it's significant enough to trope.
For proof that this isn't just a criticism posed by myself or Clown Prince 47, there is also this critique on Youtube
addressing the same exact plot point.
Edited by NubianSatyress