I’m going to have to hold myself back from going on a mile long rant about Platinum End. I need to save all that for the seasonal anime roundup article. Instead, I want to take today to focus on a question. You see I love when morality and sex interwine into an article idea that I can talk about with you guys. In Platinum End, angels can give certain humans special powers. One of these powers is known as the Red Arrow. This special arrow can be shot at another person and will cause said person to fall in love with the shooter for 30 days. Someone shot by the arrow will seek to please the shooter and follow their orders to a tee. The only thing that the shooter cannot order them to do is kill themselves. Essentially the target is brainwashed but still retains some aspects of their personality, they’re not a lifeless puppet. Now the question is, are you using this bad boy?
In other words, it's a scuffed Cupid's Arrow.
Before I get cancelled before this article is even over, allow me to clearly state that no I probably wouldn’t (hey we never know for sure what we’d do with extreme power until we have it). You see, I’m a prideful bastard. Just the fact of knowing that I was not able to entice this woman naturally to want to be with me would have me triggered. Knowing that I had to stoop down to using a Red Arrow to force someone to be with me would be such a sad thought that I likely couldn’t handle the guilt of what I’d done, at least not enough to still have a boner anyway. Funnily enough, a similar situation even occurs to a character in the anime. Cheating your way into sex with brainwashing is simply a hard pill to swallow. For that reason I’d have to say I’m out in the vast majority of cases. I couldn’t do that to someone else. I can only think of two exceptions.
Exception 1: I’m like 70 years old. You see I have to admit that my answer is partially influenced by my age. I’m still a young buck with plenty of years down the road to end up finding a girl. I’m in no rush. However, let's say I’m a 70 year old virgin who still has some gas left in the dick tank. At that point I might suck it up and try to find some absolutely horrible woman (convicted murderer, rapist, pedophile, etc.) and use the Red Arrow on her just so I know what sex is like one fucking time before I die. Even then prostitution might be a much simpler option so I can’t say one way or the other, but damn getting old does change the equation. Exception 2: I suspect she already likes or loves me. In this case, I think I would use the Red Arrow. HOWEVER, I wouldn’t fuck her during the 33 days. Instead I would shoot her and then ask when she began to like/love me. If she says the date I shot her with the arrow, then I know she never did naturally and won’t pursue anything with her, allowing the 33 days to expire. If she says a date before when I shot her with the Red Arrow, that means she already liked me naturally and thus after the 33 days wear off, I’ll simply ask her out with my newly acquired knowledge. For that purpose of extracting the truth and nothing more, I could be more open to using the Red Arrow.
Me trying to think of ways to utilize the Red Arrow without sacrificing my morality.
Those are my thoughts on this hypothetical. I’m interested to know how you guys would use such a power. Are you watching Platinum End? Would you use the Red Arrow? Avoid it and forget you even have it? Reload, take aim, and fire in the comments below!
