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I don't think it's silly of you to bring this up. In fact I think it's crucial to reexamine nonconsensual stuff in fiction, even kids' fiction. But I don't think I agree with your conclusion here. It's true: in the real world a forced marriage is more or less explicitly rapey. But at some point we as a society decided that in light works of fantasy we don't need to really need to follow every single thing to its logi…
> I mean, was there rape in Super Mario Brothers? The antagonist is quite the princess-kidnapper. I was surprised to see they only now re-released Super Mario RPG. There's a forced-marriage story arc in that one too, and Mario Odyssey also had an abort-the-wedding mission. I'm in a weird position where you don't agree with me, but I actually agree with you . Yeah, wedding implies an unwanted consummation, but there's…
But in fiction, especially fantastical works like FF6, we can't make claims about the original work (ala "there is rape in FF6") based on those kinds of extrapolations.