I never understood the obsession with returning things to the path of the games’ story in these stories.
Like, you’re a sentient being with the capability of doing shit- DO SHIT
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The fuck is this shit? You can get TONS of temporal data from fossils through dating of the rocks around it, and from compositions in the rocks themselves.
What you CAN’T get, is stuff that biodegrades easily. T-Rexes might have had hot pink scales with purple polka dots at some point...
I really prefer this dynamic in these otome-isekai stories. Sure, the world’s from a game, but life isn’t ABOUT pre-determined routes- most of the time, they make it very clear the characters have some sort of agency in these stories, yet so often the MC herp-derps their way trying to destroy...
Whitewashing certainly was a thing here, but I think what really stuck out to me was the change in attitude towards the mc. This kind of change in attitude just resonates with so many experiences I’ve had with facetious people in my life, I almost cried seeing it