That’s terrible. [—he says, before his usual filter can stop the words from being spoken.] To not even be given names, or to be treated as a true individual, until “proving” themselves through some kind of… dangerous trial?
[Faerghus was a land of knights, of honor in and out of the battlefield. Children learned to use a sword long before they could properly read and write, and Dimitri was no exception to that rule. He still remembers the days where he would train, as a child, running through the woods in heavy armor to build up his strength. Or when his own father would take time out of the day to show him how to properly wield a lance, where to place his feet, how to strike the enemy.
But that is different than what Oz is telling him; the unfair expectations of children to all be so strong, when he knows that humanity is weak and fallible at its core. Perhaps it’s unfair to apply his own cultural beliefs to one a world away, but he cannot help see it as unfair, as wrong. Individuals should not have to prove the right to exist by way of being a warrior.]
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[Faerghus was a land of knights, of honor in and out of the battlefield. Children learned to use a sword long before they could properly read and write, and Dimitri was no exception to that rule. He still remembers the days where he would train, as a child, running through the woods in heavy armor to build up his strength. Or when his own father would take time out of the day to show him how to properly wield a lance, where to place his feet, how to strike the enemy.
But that is different than what Oz is telling him; the unfair expectations of children to all be so strong, when he knows that humanity is weak and fallible at its core. Perhaps it’s unfair to apply his own cultural beliefs to one a world away, but he cannot help see it as unfair, as wrong. Individuals should not have to prove the right to exist by way of being a warrior.]
What did you do?