Curly is a bad person.

I swear every single post in this sub about Curly is "controversial opinion: I don't hate Curly" with 100+ upvotes or every youtube video about him being bad is full of comments disagreeing while every defense for him is absolute bullshit. Like why does everyone keep insisting on "no matter what he did it would be bad". Literally ANYTHING he could have done would be better than doing nothing.

Curly is not a morally grey character Curly is straight up a bad person who doesn't care for literal sexual assault . Sexual assault isn't a disagreement between him and his friend, it's a vile crime that requires punishment, with a very real victim, a person, which he fails to care about. If I ever saw someone in real life who reacted to his friend being a r@pist with "sigh fine I'll talk to him" without even any actual confrontation, I would %100 conclude that they are someone I should stay away from as well.

He ignored a sexual assault victims wellbeing in order to coddle up his r@pist buddy with a criminal record. Going off on the assumption that he did take the hint, it would be so that Anya asked for direct help, or a gun for self defense, or at the very least a safe place to sleep in. Any even *remotely* good person with a little bit of empathy would provide at least one of those things, let alone the fact that an actual good person would lock up Jimmy. But not even a slap on the wrist was there.

The game implies more than once that Anya's assault was not a one time thing. If Anya never anounced her pregnancy leading to Jimmy sabotaging the ship and setting off the events, Curly was never going to take action. Anya would be repeatedly assulted for the rest of her days on that ship and Curly would be complicit in the ongoing crime. Not enabler, complicit. He was the authority that should've CARED.

No he is not weak minded, manipulatable, bad captain, nor naive. The mental gymnastics are wild. It's not a morally grey character, it's a misogynist who only has empathy for his psychopat r@pist bro and not even the slightest concern for the living human being that said bro assaulted.

He didn't "trust the wrong person" or "get manipulated", he knew exactly who he was choosing as a friend. He knows Jimmy, he knows Jimmy has a past also, still recruits him on a ship with a female nurse. He has that nurse coming to him asking for help, he basically ignores her.

It's not a mistake your average person does, it's a mistake a bad person does. Your average person gets filled with rage and wants to hospitalize Jimmy the moment Anya's SA was implied, just as you, the player did.

The fact that y'all keep saying stuff like "put yourself in his shoes", "you might have done the same", "surely most of us have been Curly before" actually scares me.