[Cradle]

CRADLE IS AN ISEKAI FROM EITHAN'S PERSPECTIVE

Sort of

No, it totally is.

He's super overpowered and he came (back) from another world, it checks out.

I have just finished reaper and he was arrested for being an OP isekai character

Now THAT'S an isekai premise I can get behind

There's that Way of the Reaper story and the IDF

about heroically fighting off insane invaders from another world

Imagine if it was more like

COPS intro

Group dedicated to fighting off isekai protagonists but they aren't cool heroes they're bored civil servants

asdfgh yes perfect.

Some Kirito-alike shows up and then an exhausted-looking multidimensional guy in a bright reflective traffic warden kind of vest shows up like 'really, buddy? This is the third time we've caught you this month, get your shit together.' in about the same tone you'd expect a cop to use for somebody being brought in on a drunk and disorderly.

That's exactly what Suriel was introduced doing

To the equivalent of like a litterbug to Ozzie's high ass treason

Absolutely.

Suriel is too dignified to be a proper procedural civil servant tho

Li Markuth was the dude you drag out of the bar parking lot for public nudity. Ozriel is the guy you pick up actively in the middle of setting fire to a federal building, cackling loudly the whole time.

(Suriel puts up with so much shit.)

Cradle AU where Suriel speaks in an exhausted Brooklyn accent

You know what, yes. Fund it.

I mean, her Presence is probably translating for her when she speaks to Lindon anyway. You can't prove that's not her native accent. : D

I will also accept Bostonian

Eyyy, I'm Forgin' 'ere

Okay, but consider: the guy who narrates the audiobooks apparently gave Eithan (and the rest of the Arelius family) vaguely English-esque accents.

AU where he went a couple countries over and made them Scottish instead.

That fits, like the Rosegold area reads as vaguely Roman but this isn't actual earth

I always read Yerin as sounding extremely cockney

I think the worst possible world is Lindon with a heavy scots accent

Actually I take it back

Everyone keeps trying to fight him because he comes off as being extremely hostile

I think if you said "apologies, but," in a heavy scots brogue you'd definitely sound like you were winding up to physically fight

God, you're so right.