[ She breathes out, a small, short huff of amusement. ]
The world I come from has its own sense of humor. The best at fighting the threat to humanity are taken away from that fight. They're brought in to police over humanity itself, under the order of the King, and among them, the youngest, newest recruits are most heavily relied on to perform.
There's a field to work in - several, in fact - but it isn't where they could be most effective. Not for the fight against the Titans.
[ For a very different fight, a political, social battle, it's brilliant. The most loyal are rewarded with the kinds of lives that bred corruption by teaching how to look the other way, brutally and effectively making the world conform to those expectations. ]
You go where you're ordered to go. You fight, capture, interrogate as you're told. You hunt down missing family members, you track down people dodging taxes, you escort drunks out of taverns, you stand watch when important prisoners are moved through your district.
We're the enforcement and the executioners when called for. Yet we don't have to stand and fight the biggest known threat for the last hundred years. Funny... isn't it.
[ She doesn't find it funny in the slightest. So it goes. ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYunO8SZe30 randomly this is the one that came to mind for me
[ She breathes out, a small, short huff of amusement. ]
The world I come from has its own sense of humor. The best at fighting the threat to humanity are taken away from that fight. They're brought in to police over humanity itself, under the order of the King, and among them, the youngest, newest recruits are most heavily relied on to perform.
There's a field to work in - several, in fact - but it isn't where they could be most effective. Not for the fight against the Titans.
[ For a very different fight, a political, social battle, it's brilliant. The most loyal are rewarded with the kinds of lives that bred corruption by teaching how to look the other way, brutally and effectively making the world conform to those expectations. ]
You go where you're ordered to go. You fight, capture, interrogate as you're told. You hunt down missing family members, you track down people dodging taxes, you escort drunks out of taverns, you stand watch when important prisoners are moved through your district.
We're the enforcement and the executioners when called for. Yet we don't have to stand and fight the biggest known threat for the last hundred years. Funny... isn't it.
[ She doesn't find it funny in the slightest. So it goes. ]