GL written by Horny dudes and BL written by Fujoshi females are the worst.
Those mens don't really act like males that driven by action and things, and those women didn't act with sublety and emotionally driven as they should.
Just replace the Character genders and it's more accurate and realistic since they're written by Author's gender in mind.
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An Isekai-ed character that "Forgot" his name, but not anything else. Like seriously, is naming character that hard ? Just use John, Liam, Jack, or anything.
Even if I forgot lots of thing in my youth, I still remember my name : MC, a.k.a Morris Clarkson.
Might as well make him full on amnesiac if anything to justify forgetting your name.
Even Mushoku Tensei still have original name, even though it's censored by author. It's a very creative use of the name.
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I also didn't like the fact that his isekai-ed irrelevant to his character or the way he thinks about the world and the difference.
Sure you can tell that the character "adapt fast" and "moves on", but it's Outrageous if you don't even show the "adaptation" itself.
They just got here and moves on like a man ? Like they should ? "Be A Man" propaganda doesn't include teleported to unfamiliar place in unfamiliar circumstances.
"Survive first" is the priority and the one people thought in panic. You can calm down later when things get cleared.
Or no thought about wanting to go back the other world. It's a lie that they don't ask the question at least twice a day. It's okay that the character don't like their past, but there's a sense of missing and reminiscing the memories of the past.
I hate my past and I still quite miss the building and the scenery when I'm not too sad, It's just that there's some places and people that make me traumatized.
Even when MC manages to adapt with locals and manage to act and speak like one, he should have some distinct thought process when compared to others.
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MC knows about manga and novel tropes ? How the fuck he even calculate every moves everytime it happens ?
Do you know that reading people get angry and actually seeing one is a different experience ? Let alone calculating his next action, MC probably Still affected by Opponents angry rant before thinking hard how to get out of this situation.
If MC want to calculate, he should do it in safe distance. No need to take actions and risk himself.
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Seeing blood and Gore is quite an experience. Even modern medics and people that deals with cadaver have bad memoris about those.
You can refer to people in medical jobs that deal with cadaver in reddits and other forum to write how the mc deals with meeting gore scenery for the first time.
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There's also some "mental positivity" I can't stand. It's not like I hate positive thoughts, but how the fuck those people saw bad thing happen and after dwelling for a moment, they "snap" and thought "I can't stay like this anymore, it's not positive and I most move forward and be happy".
It's just as stupid as people saying :
"instead of paying mental therapist 100$ to deal with depression, you should just say "It is what it is" and moves on as it cost 0$."
At least show his calming mantra and what his mind cling on in those bad times. Try to show how the MC even got those values, either by teacher or parent or fired or something.
As a person infested with depression, I still don't Understand how those supposedly "depressed mc" manage to "gain hope", at least not with something significant that could affect Mc's situation.
Many people told me that "you should be adult and be a man suitable for your age".
But what the fuck is "be adult" and "suitable of your age" even means concretely ? Can I just follow my instinct and desire so I suddenly awaken my bloodline of a "Man" that resides inside my constitution of a "human with dick and no boob" ?
Nope, the only thing I got when I "follow my instincts" is Horny.
which technically isn't wrong, horny is a mark of a man. But it just shows the bad values of toxic masculinity and not help that much in "dealing with girl and showing etiquette expected of a man".
The question is :
"How, When, and Where the fuck you learn all that shit ?"
Common sense is different between countries. In USA and Europe, many people believe in freedom and free speech.
But in Asia, Freedom is limited to culture and moral values.
You can't just write the character is good, Chad, and adult as he's the best man around.
Who's hes been interacting all these years. Who's his parents figure and how they treat him.
You need to write why he's like that in first place ? Why the luck he choose this action instead of that ? It doesn't have to be realistic, it just have to be Convincing.
Even if Character is flawed, it just have to be written convincingly that people may think otherwise.
