Why So Much Rape in Stormblood

[Enla]

He didn't even say his mother was raped, he said the soldier went for her, maybe they got together and broke up? maybe they had a fling but in doing so had a child she didnt want with a man of his blood, who knows, the thoughts were put upon the reader to guess without implying which it was. For the OP, it was rape, for me it was love gone wrong. I should we address what happened in Vietnam?

Thing is here that context is important. In the lore it's pretty clear that many Ala Mhigans were raped in the sacking of their country by Garlemald and that many in Fordola's generation are the product of it. You can chose to believe it's a case of love gone wrong, but given the other instances and the what his mother did to him it's pretty clear to me that his birth was of a more insidious nature.

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This person collects lore to help the RP community, including transcribing every bit of dialogue they find. These are the posts pertaining to Ala Mhigo, including straight NPC dialogue, and let's just say it's not pretty. (All of this was compiled pre-SB as well.)

Glaumunt: “When Ala Mhigo fell, they put my family in a camp. Bein’ a lad, I was made to do hard labor, while my mother an’ sister were made to do far worse… They hid their sufferin’ from me as best they could, but I knew, an’ the thought of it drove me mad. We had to escape. An’ so I hatched a plan to get us out o’ the city. We were pickin’ our way around a gorge not far outside the walls when they caught up with us… An’ rather than allow ‘emselves to be taken again, my mother an’ sister leaped over the edge before my very eyes. Heartbroken as I was, I didn’t put up a fight when the imperials clapped me in chains an’ dragged me back.”