Quote Originally Posted by KrayZ33 View Post
I took me a while to realize that Rudy has been away from home for like 6 years or something by now.

How old is he now? I know it has been mentioned earlier.
I think he's 11 or 12 while Eris is one year older. He got his staff for his 10th birthday and was trying it out I think when the Teleportation thing hit. Then he's been wandering for 1.5 years.

Quote Originally Posted by Kraco
Yeah, we can all agree that you always get perfectly objective, analytical, and dispassionate descriptions of events from 12 year old kids, especially when the kid is very proud of what he achieved, for a good reason. Of course we know Rudeus is not a kid all the way down to his soul, but Paul knows nothing of such things. Even we do know, though, that in many ways Rudeus is like a child because of his degenerative circumstances in his previous life
Paul was inconsistent. He was previously worried about Rudy, asked "I'm amazed you survived" when he met him just now, but then got pissed off at how Rudy described his extraordinary journey. There'd be an element of self projection from him, but large part of this comes from the assumption that Rudy was aware of a large scale teleportation incident, the distress it's caused its victims and that Paul had been actively searching for him + giving him information.

If he was to hear his son talk about his journey in a self-centric way as if he cared for nothing else then Paul's reaction is not that unphantomable. It's not ideal, but I can kind of get why he said what he did - surprised as I was.

I take particular issue with everyone else's attitude though (the rest of the search party). They have no role in judging Rudy. They don't know this guy. Even Paul doesn't really know this guy deep down.

The only person currently who I can say understands Rudy would be Eris.