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Originally Posted by Om Nerabdator
If a author has to use the very overly used rape scenario to move a story they have no integrity in my books. Come up with something new!!! use some creativty.
So what in the original version she get bashed and raped then shes back to fighting monsters next chapter??
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If you read the actual context of the scene in the manga you would be able to tell how this was actually a very powerful and symbolic/significant use of rape in this story, far from any "overused" rape scenario. If the use of rape in this instance wasn't meaningful, then
nothing could be called as being artistically meaningful. Lemme underscore this:
there is no other artistic context besides this one in which rape could be called less "cheap". Dismissing the use of rape in this story as "unoriginal" is just an example of sheer unabashed ignorance.
For the record, even in this 'not-actually-raped' manga version Cecily takes up to two chapters recovering before she gets back to "fighting monsters", as you put it. The character development involved wouldn't be any different from if she had actually been raped, because the most important blow to Cecily was to her pride and ideals. Regardless, the use or non-use of physical rape itself is important for reflecting the
reality of such situations, as an analogue to the oppression faced by real women themselves in the face of male hatred/misogyny and prejudice, who would never have such a convenient excuse in such a situation as "oh whoops, he can't actually rape me". The fact that the author was pressured into changing this aspect of the story is reflective of the delusional outlook of a male audience obsessed with "purity" as a matter of objectifying fictional female characters, not only completely ignoring them as real personalities, but wilfully turning a blind eye to real world injustice and cruelty. It's practically the definition of a victory of escapism versus real world significance, the degradation of an artistic mirror to society.