#like 'Caithe please stop shoving the child at certain death let it NAP'

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foxholemonster replied to your post “It still hurts my little heart that the sylvari commander is...”

Sylvari commanders see children running around and playing, genuinely asking a friend what those kids are doing. Not understanding the concept of just having fun when it’s explained to them. “Come on, surely you’ve done that too, plenty of saplings play around from what I’ve heard” “...I...I wouldn’t know. I never was around saplings much.” “Really? Come on you’ve gotta be exaggerating” “No, really. I had a hunt, I couldn’t exactly go just waste time ‘playing around’ when the world needs me”

On the other hand, their team finding this out and immediately setting them on a mandatory vacation and taking them around the world to genuinely explore and have fun like they never got to. Seeing for the first time unbridled joy and excitement on their face once they settle into the idea of taking a break. Realizing how strained and posed their smiles always were when they finally genuinely smile and laugh. Realizing how wrong the world did this child, and how this may be too little too late

But by the gods they’re gonna give the Commander at least a moment of joy after all this

FOX I’M CRYING IN THE CLUB MY DUDE YOU DESTROYED ME

Anet let Dragon’s Watch take us on a lil vacation we need it, please

Like, god I can practically see everyone having this horrified dawning expression when it clicks that while they were living their lives (heck we’re half a year older than jory and kas’s relationship), we didn’t get that, we were keeping everyone safe by facing this threat most people believed we’d DIE to??

I can also see Canach being downright furious with Caithe and the rest of the Firstborn (and Pale Mom), like they’ve just raised this child for slaughter to some extent? They’re barely out of their pod and they’re fighting the Court, making important decisions over who lives who dies, learning about this destiny their sister who’s had 25 years to grow, has supposedly failed? And at the earliest possible chance, they essentially send them away to one of three military-esque boarding schools? ‘They had a choice’ doesn’t really matter when your choices are ‘child, do you want to go to this school where you’ll be researching your targets? This one where we train you to be a living weapon on the battlefield? Or this one where you learn to manipulate, torture, and become a spy?’

A necessity for saving the world? Yes! Good for this sapling? No! And the sapling just goes with it, because you’ve taken what’s essentially a child, and told them they’re this fabled hero, with a big destiny, and that you’re helping them - and at the start it’s easy, they feel big and important, the leaders of their race respect and listen to them! But years down the line it catches up, heck by the end of the personal story, there’s characters that actively HATE you, that despise you and want you dead - that’s messed up