I had to delete half the stuff off my phone to barely clear up just enough room to install the android version.
You tell 'em!Don't you dare talk about my precious Sarah like that!(Don't worry, she gets waaaaay better later on)
She makes me a bit uncomfortable. All of the other characters are so nuanced, and Rachel is a caricature. People like her exist (and are deranged), but I've only ever seen them on Twitter. I want to share the game with my wife, but Rachel's depiction would not go over well.
I'd like to believe that if I showed my partner the game, she would also understand that characters are written for a reason, and that they are an extension of the story, not of the author themselves. Surely your wife would understand this as well, should you explain it to her.
Couldnt you just tell your wife that there is a character in the story that is a caricature of a deranged feminist, but the rest of the game is really good?
It can seem sexist in a roundabout way when authors write female characters as stereotypes. It can make it appear as though the author has an agenda and thinks that women act a certain way, because of a stereotype, and want to denigrate them through their writing.
or you could just stand straight and tell your wife that feminism is bullshit and that you are still waiting for your sandwich
To be fair to toyohew900 he hasn't said anything that would indicate he isn't ok with people talking about this
Many stories have characters who seem to be villains but then, with good story telling, morph into someone who was far more complex - perhaps someone who took on the burden of being the bad guy/girl to protect others, or someone abandoned by her father and raised by an angry, twisted woman who teaches her that All males are the root of evil in the world...
Here is the thing I will say. While she may make you a bit uncomfortable, every girl has baggage to unpack. Some are more complex than others to unpack. Rachael is no different than Akatsuki per se. Both have something behind the scene going on, the story progresses and the girl's story unfolds, and resolves, and then they come to love the MC. Really the only difference between Akatsuki (or Sarah or Lucy or ...) is that they are not a horrible person to the MC before the MC starts working on them. In fact Akatsuki likes being a cat girl, while Rachael right now has no feelings for the MC besides being a voyeur. That is the only connection to the MC and her total distaste/distrust for men, which makes her more fascinated with him. If Rachael was saying "No Patriarchy" in public but "Yes Master" in private, everyone would like her at this point.
Many stories have characters who seem to be villains but then, with good story telling, morph into someone who was far more complex - perhaps someone who took on the burden of being the bad guy/girl to protect others, or someone abandoned by her father and raised by an angry, twisted woman who teaches her that All males are the root of evil in the world...
We don't understand Rachel's origin - why is she 'who' she is, nor do we know who she is outside of school, for example.
Rachel, IMO, has a deeper pit to climb out of than Catherine But Cosy does a good job with his storytelling, and that pit may be easier for Rachel to climb out of than I currently give her credit for.
If you are uncertain about how your wife would perceive Cosy Cafe as a creation due to the portrayal of Rachel up to this point in time - why not wait until her story becomes clearer and we see Rachel evolve and grow a bit?
Perhaps a few more releases will show enough of 'why' Rachel is the way she is and some level of regret as she grows as a human being.
This could be enough to then consider sharing this fine AVN with your wife.
Stories of redemption are not uncommon across literature, and I believe the same is possible for Rachel, we just do not know the specifics yet.
Cheers!!
Welp, look, I've read and listened to lots of stories with this kind of situation alone (I'm talking about a good 100,000 at least), antagonist Waifu turned out to be good, she repented, helped behind the scenes, etc etc etc, so I can predict this kind of stuff fairly well, believe it or not, and it does get boring predicting stuff.
