• Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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    11 days ago

    it’s an isekai so you can just spawn with a billion local dollars and wreck the economy.

    depending on the tech level and genre specifics maybe you can just go straight to the liberatory war. maybe there’s a different nation that abhors slavery and is waiting for a destabilizing event. maybe there’s an underground railroad for them already but dealing with the spike in fleeing former slaves is an interesting story of its own.

    maybe you bait the isekai fans a second time and you die a second time almost immediately and the story goes on to follow some of the people you freed.

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      11 days ago

      Also, there’s no rule that an isekai world would even have slavery, the rules of the fictional world can be literally anything the author wants, so unless they specifically want to write a story about slavery and injustice, it adds nothing but extra creepiness to most isekai stories to include slavery and not have “freeing the slaves” be a major plot focus.

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        10 days ago

        It’s kind of funny that Mushoku Tensei which seems to be considered a huge inspiration for all the worst isekai slop, actually did have an early arc that introduced the slave trade, demonstrated how completely monstrous and irredeemable the whole thing was, and had “literally just massacre all the slavers” be such an unobjectionably necessary and good course of action that even Rudy, milquetoast little conflict-averse shit that he is, couldn’t object to it in the slightest.

        It just didn’t handle the topic too well in later volumes, despite continuing to portray slavers as monstrous scum. Part of that was that even at his best the protagonist was still an unprincipled piece of shit who only cared about things that affected him and the people he cared about personally, who was only ever coerced into taking any sort of major action, but it’s still part of a broader failure by the author to either fix that flaw like how Rudy’s other antisocial traits got fixed (which admittedly would come into conflict with the whole “he’s not the hero, he’s the grill dad whose daughter is going to be the hero” shtick it has going on) or to force him to be the reluctant antihero by having someone he cares about drag him into it.