Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

[MFauli]

Paul definitely s frustrated about himself, too.

But i think it's too myopic to criticise him too harshly for that. He surely wss happy to find Rudy - but that feeling simply didn't last long when the rest of the family is still in danger. Imagine your whole family was abducted. Your adult son returns. Are you happy? Ofc. Will you, however, quickly go back to worrying about your wive and underage daughter who are still in grave danger? Also yes. And if your son starts talking about his grand adventure how he escaped, you'd get angry, too.

People are too harsh on Paul.

He can have multiple lovers/wives, like Eris's grandpa.

Sure, but would Eris allow that? Would Roxy? The elf girl seems submissive enough, no issues there lol.

[DarthEnderX]

Paul definitely s frustrated about himself, too.

But i think it's too myopic to criticise him too harshly for that. He surely wss happy to find Rudy - but that feeling simply didn't last long when the rest of the family is still in danger. Imagine your whole family was abducted. Your adult son returns. Are you happy? Ofc. Will you, however, quickly go back to worrying about your wive and underage daughter who are still in grave danger? Also yes. And if your son starts talking about his grand adventure how he escaped, you'd get angry, too.

People are too harsh on Paul.

No, they aren't. A. His son is NOT an adult. And B. Regardless of how difficult Rudy's own journey was or wasn't, the fact that the rest of his family is still missing is NOT HIS FAULT, and NOT HIS FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY!

And being like "Well it's okay that he's acting like a piece of shit...cause he's sad." is nonsense. He's acting like a piece of shit because he's a drunk fucking failure! And maybe if he wasn't sitting around getting so fucking drunk, he'd have more success finding his goddamn family!

Somehow it all pieces together, as mentionned it's possible Rudeus missed the chance to even have Paul's message by less than a day.

How would he have received it anyway?

He's traveling under the name Rujierd. It would be weird for him to show up at the guild hall and be like "Hey, any messages for Rudius Greyrat? Yes, I know that's not my name, but I want his mail anyway."

[Kraco]

Paul definitely s frustrated about himself, too.

But i think it's too myopic to criticise him too harshly for that. He surely wss happy to find Rudy - but that feeling simply didn't last long when the rest of the family is still in danger. Imagine your whole family was abducted. Your adult son returns. Are you happy? Ofc. Will you, however, quickly go back to worrying about your wive and underage daughter who are still in grave danger? Also yes. And if your son starts talking about his grand adventure how he escaped, you'd get angry, too.

People are too harsh on Paul.

He's a father of three already, and none of his children are adult, far from it. He's unable to keep himself in the role of a father. However, he has been drinking for months, likely, already, so you could say much of his bad behavior is due to that. Drunkards aren't in control of themselves. Still, booze doesn't crawl into his mouth on its own, so it's 100% his own fault if he is drunk and can't take Rudy's story as a son talking to his father. He almost acted like Rudeus wasn't his child at all but rather someone external who ought to help Paul to look for Paul's missing family.

So, no, I don't think anyone's too harsh on Paul.

Sure, but would Eris allow that? Would Roxy? The elf girl seems submissive enough, no issues there lol.

Eris is from that perverted family of Grayrats. I wouldn't yet say anything about her stance. Maybe it would cost Rudy the money to hire a (lesbian) animal-ears maid to keep Eris company, though.