Talk:Riko/@comment-77.111.247.58-20200620073837/@comment-3438245-20200825215556

Fair enough she may be lucky, but I don't see that as an issue. It didn't impact negatively or diminish the story. Sure, she could've died countless times on this journey, but what would it have achieved story-wise? Nothing. The main interest and plot driving force is to explore the Abyss and its inhabitants. For a child like her to realistically succeed at that, she must be very lucky and have strong allies.

You seem to have a preconceived expectation of what this story should be that is completely different from what it is, and are upset only because it doesn't fit with your expectation.

And I'd say if Riko is still "pure", it's not that see didn't have to face horrible situations up to now, because she has in fact faced some pretty traumatic stuff, I would argue. It's that she is literally fearless. No matter how traumatic the things she encounters, she seems completely unaffected by them. She has an unreal amount of mental resilience and a borderline unreasonable tendency to marvel at things rather than fear them. She doesn't have the same kind of mental stress that Reg has because he is so much weaker than her in that regard.