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Jenna Ortega

Thinking about the Chevalier interlude, specifically the inaugural team of Wards. Like in universe, they sell it to this first group of kids (and presumably the rest of the world) as a place for second chances, to find friends and mentors who understand what youre going through, where you can learn to use your powers safely while making good memories. The kids broadly seem to believe in these noble intentions of course, but what really gets me is that I've seen readers buy into it!

"Oh, it's such a tragedy that the Wards program became this awful thing that traumatizes kids even more, and expects them to die for the sake of civilians! It's fallen so short of what it was originally supposed to be!"

No it has not??? The fact that the triumvirate and Hero are saying it has this noble goal doesn't make it true. The Wards was pretty clearly always a way to increase the amount of bodies the prt could throw at threats, and we know this because it was started by the fucking Triumvirate as a part of the Protectorate! Alexandria literally came up with the idea of the Protectorate to legitimize the power of capes, and have a consistent source of heroes Cauldron could throw at problems. That is the whole reason for the PRT/Protectorate existing. So when we have this group of children brought in a subsidiary, there are 2 real options.

1). Cauldron and Alexandria decided they would be really niceys and created this program with no intentions other than helping these kids out.

Or 2). As things got worse, they realized the Protectorate didn't have enough manpower to do what they needed, and so they expanded it to include children (the demographic most prone to triggering). That way, they greatly increase the number of capes who they can send to fight and die as needed, and the ones who do survive their tenure in the Wards will be better trained when it comes time to join the actual Protectorate.

At the risk of sounding conceited, I think the second one is far more likely based on everything we know about Cauldron. Maybe it was originally a little nobler, and the goal was just to create more well trained heroes and cut back on young villains, but there's no way Alexandria, Doc Mom, and Contessa didn't factor in the ability to sacrifice the kid heroes if it improved their chances of success. That was absolutely a perk at minimum.

That's the real tragedy of the inaugural Wards. The kids were lured in with promises of safety, comraderie, and second chances like lambs to the slaughter. All the while, Alexandria and Cauldron knew that many (if not most) of these children would suffer abuse by the prt (like in the case of Reed), die, or face a fate worse than death like poor Mouse Protector. It's horrifying! The idea that they didn't know the danger these kids would be in is literally inconceivable. Especially when one of you is also the head of the prt! They knew, and they didn't care. It improved their chances at the end of the world, and so they did it no matter the cost.

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Crazy how I've seen dozens of youtube videos about the whole "kids in sephora" crisis of capitalism but not ONE has mentioned how the adultification is gender specific

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Chloë Grace Moretz

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The son lives with his mother in the same apartment. The son has recently graduated from university. The mother works for a private company. The son also lives with his mother's boyfriend, whom the son has known since school, as they lived in neighbouring houses, often played football in the yard and often visited each other. As his friend is the same age as his son, he also recently graduated from university. The friend finally fell in love with the son's mother at the end of the school year before graduation. As his son's 18th birthday approached, the friend decided to tell him the truth. It came as a surprise to the son, but eventually he realised that his mother had not had a husband for a long time. When the son was born, the father left the family two years later and went to live with another woman. For his mother, this love was actually from school, and his parents got married at the age of 18, and when his mother was 19, they had a son. All this time, my mother raised her son alone and worked alone. The son and his friend went to different universities. While studying at the university, the friend could not find an approach to the son's mother for quite a long time, often giving her flowers and inviting her for a walk, but she refused at first because it was unusual for her to date a guy half her age, and he was also her son's friend. Eventually, the boy's persistence won out, and she started dating him. Over time, the mother became close to her son's friend. When they were in their third year at university, the friend decided to move in with the mother. There was enough space in the apartment, and the friend shared a bed with the son's mother. At first, everything was quiet, but over time, sounds like a bed creaking began to come from the room. This went on for quite some time. Six months before he graduated from university, his mother told him she was pregnant, and this did not come as a surprise to the son, as the sounds he heard from the room, as well as what his friend said after the night, made it clear that sooner or later it would end in pregnancy for his mother. The son hugged his mother and said that he was happy that his mother was happy. A week later, a friend made a marriage proposal that the mother could not refuse. The friend said that he would graduate from university and get a job, and after the baby was born, they would have a wedding in a small circle of relatives.

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