To the isekai writers, I have a question.

[Mihou]

If you are an isekai writer who have tried writing an chapter regarding orphanages and the likes,

Do you get the same sense of guilt as I do after writing down the whole "visiting an orphanage" chapter with the MC doing absolutely no long term help (such as offering jobs) to the children? ?

 

[Sacred_Night]

Sort of. I didn't actually write the chapter, I was brainstorming for new additions to the cast characters and an orphanage came to mind. But my problem wasn't not being able to do enough good, but rather do too much harm. I thought, well what if certain orphans agreed to help the MC, well it's still coercing desperate people, so it's a pretty bad thing to do. I know I'm writing an anti-hero MC, but I was uncomfortable with that lol

*Spoiler I guess. My MC is a werewolf and he's looking to turn people for entry into his pack.* I'll either drop the idea or tweak it in someway, where consent is real, with the party member knowing the ramifications and wanting to join not out of desperation

 

[ForestDweller]

One of my MC's harem members used to be from an orphanage, and thanks to him, she gets adopted into his family instead of staying under an abusive old lady who only uses her as what basically amounts to slave labor.

He hasn't actually finished any actual orphanages yet though. But he knows from his mother just how horrible they can get.

Maybe in the future if he gets a territory of his own, then he can try to make actually good orphanages.

 

[AliceShiki]

If you are an isekai writer who have tried writing an chapter regarding orphanages and the likes,

Do you get the same sense of guilt as I do after writing down the whole "visiting an orphanage" chapter with the MC doing absolutely no long term help (such as offering jobs) to the children? ?

I think it would depend on my character~

If my character was worried about the children and they kinda stuck to the back of their mind, then MC would keep going back to the orphanage and would help out with what they can.

If not... Then they wouldn't feel guilty, and I wouldn't either~

 

[PrincessFelicie]

I don't think offering jobs to children is actually long term help, considering that, you know, child labor is kind of a shitty thing. But you can always make your character the harbinger of societal change in the long term; either by becoming a rich philantropist, or a myriads of ways that the average republican would shout at and call communist.

 

[Halversen]

It depends. I, however, can be merciless. I might even write where some nasty evil massacred those children. But in the end, justice will prevail. Cause it's important to give a sense of meaning into what was happening about the story and to give a sense of relief and justice to the readers..

 

[gaylolis]

since children are immune to his thu'um, maybe my MC will live here and shout as much as he likes.

 

[Gastic]

If you are an isekai writer who have tried writing an chapter regarding orphanages and the likes,

Do you get the same sense of guilt as I do after writing down the whole "visiting an orphanage" chapter with the MC doing absolutely no long term help (such as offering jobs) to the children? ?

No, but even if i did fuck them kids.

 

[BenJepheneT]

It seems that orphanages are always seen as the more worse possible outcomes that would happen to a orphan only second to abuse and free labour.

My man, ending up in an orphanage would be a dream come true for those wide-eyed accidental-fuckaroos if you bring up the amount of actual orphans in the world and how many of them actually live in orphanages. Sure, there are certainly abuse among facilities and the lack of emotional or parental support, but we need to get rid of the notion that every orphanage is some souped-up The Promised Neverland shit.

An orphanage is the best thing that would happen to an orphan, only second to getting adopted into a good family. Even if the orphanage don't provide any form of education and only give them the bare minimum livelihood, the fact that they will be brought up until the legal age of adulthood puts them on a much better position than most other kids out there, even those living with actual parents.

So don't feel bad for the kids. Feel thankful towards the caretakers and the orphanage itself. And if you really want to help them, go down there and visit them or something like that. As for jobs and shit, you're overthinking it. Most orphans would have that planned out by the time they outlive the age the adulthood.

 

[BenJepheneT]

As Taxouck said, the only real way to help would be to enact a larger societal change, because you know, Child Labour Bad.

Morally, yes. But economically tho

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

Orphanages are an overused and overused trope. Historically speaking, orphanages were a sign of wealth, not of poverty. Only wealthy societies could set aside funds and resources to create a working institution like an orphanage. If they would be really would be piss poor, then the children would have already died long ago and nobody would even care remotely.

 

[muhammadazmee94]

If you are an isekai writer who have tried writing an chapter regarding orphanages and the likes,

Do you get the same sense of guilt as I do after writing down the whole "visiting an orphanage" chapter with the MC doing absolutely no long term help (such as offering jobs) to the children? ?

Well, my novel is about opening an orphanage in another world, so I can't really answer that. But I do feel that if you're going to do this, maybe make them leave some impact, rather than just for the sake of it

 

[CupcakeNinja]

If you are an isekai writer who have tried writing an chapter regarding orphanages and the likes,

Do you get the same sense of guilt as I do after writing down the whole "visiting an orphanage" chapter with the MC doing absolutely no long term help (such as offering jobs) to the children? ?

Nah cuz my MC would just go " Dollah dollah bills, yo!" And proceed to pelt the little shits with gold coins.

 

[CupcakeNinja]

No, but even if i did fuck them kids.

What if you tryna fuck the hot orphanage caretaker tho? Gotta make an investment. Sonce you know, I dont trust them brothel bitches no more.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

I don't feel guilt not helping real orphans why would I feel bad for fictional ones?

 

[ShyMaskedMan]

Depend on the characters. Personality and such.

 

[Yiphen]

I don't really pay that much attention that that stuff.
Out of sight, out of mind is a pretty accurate summary.

 

[Discount_Blade]

Cant say I would carry. In fact, I would usually use that as a source of tragedy to really enhance something else relevant to the story.

I mean, it's like those commercials asking you to donate to overseas countries and their starving. Just in the US alone there are hundreds of thousands of starving homeless as well as thousands more starving children. Fix our issues before going to fix others issues. I feel about as much guilt and sadness for overseas kids as I do for those orphanage kids in the story. None. Cant really say I care about any orphanage kids here either. I grew up in Brooklyn and some of those orphanage kids there are straight up evil.

Like, a ditch should be there final resting place kind of evil. Monsters some of them.