Disclaimer: Before any of you message me saying I'm supporting/justifying rape JUST BECAUSE I'M CRITICIZING THE WRITING, please check yourself lmao. I am in no way supporting or justifying rape. Rape is never justifiable til the end of time and even beyond that.
Jace's situation is horrible, his trauma is tragic, and he just got out of another traumatic run-in with the Duke, but based on the WRITING, his actions dictate that he's still aware of his surroundings. With this in mind:
He's caught Noah from spending an excessive amount of money, yet somehow didn't consider how dangerous this could be. They don't have any guards (amazing!) and by now Phil has established himself as an ignorant extra. He decides to LEAVE Noah just by seeing Fred? Leave a dumb child in public and go hide? Big forehead energy. Just take Noah with you to hide. Show him some other things Noah hasn't been exposed to as an excuse to stay out of Fred's line of sight while keeping an eye on the fountain for Phil's return or something. He talked about how he wanted to help Noah because of what he remembers as a kid and had a good thing going then screws it up. This entire issue is unfortunately his fault regardless of his fears and it's disappointing. Yes, he got triggered by trauma, but that doesn't excuse his dumb decision. Being triggered by trauma and making smart decisions are not mutually exclusive.
Now Phil...he can carry Jace in one fell swoop yet doesn't carry Noah??? A child??? Excluding any complications that a servant shouldn't touch their master or some shit, this is forehead squared energy. Ah yes, leave the young master you serve in the middle of a square with a tutor you more or less barely know. What could go wrong? On top of this, for someone who's "friendly" with Jace, he didn't notice Jace was antsy the whole time? A failure of a servant. From an objective standpoint, he is just an absolute tool and is actually a tool just to make the Duke conflicted about his own emotions. Absolutely disappointing through and through. What's the point of building up his character then? Oh right, this is a "comedy" where everything written so far has "elements of humor" mixed in. Author's writing is questionable.
Why is the author writing like this. It's making it seem like the author threw in all the heavy scenes with rape/sexual assault as if their purpose was to "spice" up the "story" for very little purpose. If those scenes were taken out and just replaced something like Jace accidently confessing to the Duke while high on drugs/drunk and he's just been awkward with the Duke the entire time, nearly everything would be exactly the same.
Disclaimer: Before any of you message me saying I'm supporting/justifying rape JUST BECAUSE I'M CRITICIZING THE WRITING, please check yourself lmao. I am in no way supporting or justifying rape. Rape is never justifiable til the end of time and even beyond that.
Jace's situation is horrible, his trauma is tragic, and he just got out of another traumatic run-in with the Duke, but based on the WRITING, his actions dictate that he's still aware of his surroundings. With this in mind:
He's caught Noah from spending an excessive amount of money, yet somehow didn't consider how dangerous this could be. They don't have any guards (amazing!) and by now Phil has established himself as an ignorant extra. He decides to LEAVE Noah just by seeing Fred? Leave a dumb child in public and go hide? Big forehead energy. Just take Noah with you to hide. Show him some other things Noah hasn't been exposed to as an excuse to stay out of Fred's line of sight while keeping an eye on the fountain for Phil's return or something. He talked about how he wanted to help Noah because of what he remembers as a kid and had a good thing going then screws it up. This entire issue is unfortunately his fault regardless of his fears and it's disappointing. Yes, he got triggered by trauma, but that doesn't excuse his dumb decision. Being triggered by trauma and making smart decisions are not mutually exclusive.
Now Phil...he can carry Jace in one fell swoop yet doesn't carry Noah??? A child??? Excluding any complications that a servant shouldn't touch their master or some shit, this is forehead squared energy. Ah yes, leave the young master you serve in the middle of a square with a tutor you more or less barely know. What could go wrong? On top of this, for someone who's "friendly" with Jace, he didn't notice Jace was antsy the whole time? A failure of a servant. From an objective standpoint, he is just an absolute tool and is actually a tool just to make the Duke conflicted about his own emotions. Absolutely disappointing through and through. What's the point of building up his character then? Oh right, this is a "comedy" where everything written so far has "elements of humor" mixed in. Author's writing is questionable.
Why is the author writing like this. It's making it seem like the author threw in all the heavy scenes with rape/sexual assault as if their purpose was to "spice" up the "story" for very little purpose. If those scenes were taken out and just replaced something like Jace accidently confessing to the Duke while high on drugs/drunk and he's just been awkward with the Duke the entire time, nearly everything would be exactly the same.