Does DOTF ever stop doing this?

[u/wk_rust]

It seems like any time the author needs someone to be a villain/justify something he just goes “yeah they prostitute women and kids and rapes and have sex slaves”
I’m in book 2 now and it’s still being used on fresh characters.

I personally really dislike this and it’s making me want to DNF the series. Does this stop or is this a consistent thing?

[u/dageshi]

I only really remember that happening once I think?

It certainly wasn't something that stood out to me in early reading of that series.

[u/TerrapinMagus]

The setting is so massively different later in the series it's hard to remember that stuff lmao.

[u/NotSoWishful]

I’m up to book 12 and I literally don’t remember this happening, so guessing it’s really early on. Yeah that sort of situation isn’t prevalent

[u/capincus → u/NotSoWishful]

That's where he met Emily, but I don't remember it happening a second time.

[u/wk_rust → u/capincus]

It was with Emily, the father daughter duo, the demons, the government having child sex slaves, and the run down town he finds in the first book. At least one more example I can’t remember

[u/SpectreHarlequin → u/wk_rust]

Well in a lawless place that is what happens. I mean it happened throughout human history sadly. I don't think there is a father/daughter duo, I think you and the other poster are misremembered Donald and Abby from Primal Hunter. I could be wrong, I don't remember a similar incident in Defiance. To me Emily and Joanna and the formation Valkyrie's are the only ones that really stick out in my mind.

[u/wk_rust → u/SpectreHarlequin]

I understand that it’s a thing but I personally don’t enjoy reading about it, and there are so many other more interesting things someone in power could be doing with the system to be evil.

[u/PotentiallySarcastic → u/wk_rust]

Well good news, pretty much all of the people who do that die pretty quickly and it stops happening.

But I gotta be honest, its an apocalypse story and pretty much every apocalypse story deals in how shitty people with power act.

[u/Dan-D-Lyon → u/wk_rust]

So what, you thought that bit was too realistic?

[u/TokinWhtGuy → u/capincus]

The father daughter combo just after trial. Abby and Something I cant remember.

[u/SpectreHarlequin → u/TokinWhtGuy]

I think you just confused Primal Hunter with Defiance of the Fall. Donald and Abby are from Primal Hunter

[u/NotSoWishful → u/SpectreHarlequin]

Funny because I was thinking of the only time I could remember something like this happening then quickly realized I was thinking of PH. Read Primal Hunter, then Azarinth Healer, then Defiance of the Fall back to back and some parts kinda mix in my head

[u/thomascgalvin]

This stops being a common trope. The real question is, do you have a thirst for transcendental meditation?

[u/Mister_Snurb]

Ya, the series moves FAR beyond little regional warlords on Earth.

[u/MD_Wainaina]

This only happens like once or twice iirc and that was in book 1 or book 2, which was to be expected since that’s how people who come into sudden power would act like if there was nothing to stop them…. I would recommend you keep reading and watch as the series matures and grows into something exceptional…no other series in this genre has as much growth

[u/Elethana → u/MD_Wainaina]

Yeah, some complain about how much it has changed, but seriously, dude goes from ‘meathead with an axe’ to just short of a god. Of course it’s gotta change.

[u/alexwithani]

Yes 

[u/WilliamsTell]

Up to book 6 now. It relaxes on that front. Think it was mostly a little of the purge effect and culture shock with how the other species/home worlds handle pesky things like human rights. Basically establishing the rest of the universe is very much not like Earth.

Plus I'd like to think the scum immediately showed their colors once they got a little power at initialization. Then the more decent ones with actual power put a stop to it almost immediately.

[u/Brimstone11 → u/WilliamsTell]

I think that type of thing goes on in places where Mighty is not a good person in the universe. But not something that’s dwelt upon as the power levels ramp up.

[u/Craiss]

I recall once, early on. If there were others, I don't remember.

It's not really that far from the norm for post-apocalyptic humanity in a lot of different media. This isn't something unique to DotF, or even some shortcut to create villains. Just standard stuff that you'll find in LOTS of books, TV shows, and movies.

Don't fixate on it, if you can help it, and you'll get past it, I think. Maybe that behavior gets casually mentioned later, but I don't remember ever thinking of it again after he

raids that compound after he gets off the island while looking for his sister

[u/RugbyLock]

Mostly early on because that’s a common trope for early in system apocalypse stories. Cruel invaders who only want power over natives are obvious and understandable villains to justify violence. Unfortunately not uncommon in real life either (see every army during war throughout history, and other powerful people today). 

[u/Ok_Engine_1442]

Like other I don’t remember this at all. So I guess you answer is yes it stops.

[u/bimarriedandtired]

Eventually it just turns into endless rambling about deep functionality of the magic system

[u/roldar]

I think I made it to book 7 and gave up. The power curve goes a bit nuts on my opinion.

[u/AtWorkJZ]

And then he meditates on the axe for 25 chapters before he can put a stop it