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Early on in The Occupation Saga, two off-duty cops try to rape the main character in the bathroom of a dive bar. The main character isn’t sure how to process this—not being from the matriarchal Imperium, he’s never seriously considered that a man like him could be raped—and he repeatedly tries to put it out of his mind. He thinks of it in passing and then refuses to discuss it, even when it’s clearly affecting his actions. But everything wrong with the Imperium, and everything wrong in real life that the Imperium mirrors or exaggerates, can be summed up by his realization that the cops will never face any kind of punishment for this. I’ve made it through two books so far, and the question it keeps asking is “How do you enforce justice against people who control the justice system?”

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If there’s any character in Arknights who should have been fat, it’s Pudding, but Lumen is a close second. Everything about his characterization, skillset, and story role screams “short, fat nerd who looks out of place in your cast of supermodels.”