#meanwhile the youngest of salem’s handpicked agents is in her mid-twenties when the war begins | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bestworstcase · 7 months ago

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leans out a window. it is not salem’s fault that oz uses child soldiers to guard his fortresses. it’s not her fault that he made a deliberate strategic choice to recruit children into a war they didn’t even know they’re fighting. (and it certainly isn’t her fault that he’s been getting kids killed in training for decades before she made her first move!)

he has been trying to destroy her for thousands of years while salem lived in exile, not fighting back, until one of those grown-up child soldiers found out the truth and gave her something to fight for. if your defenders are all children because you set up your fortresses to masquerade as schools, if you for decades continually made the choice to use children as unwitting human shields then you don’t get to blame the enemy when children die on the front lines. YOU PUT THEM THERE.

#meanwhile the youngest of salem’s handpicked agents is in her mid-twenties when the war begins #children start training for the huntsmen academies at thirteen AT THE OLDEST…#rhodes thought nothing of training cinder for the academies when she was TEN.#literally fanon salem is just people blaming her for the fucked up system oz created because she…goes to war to tear it down #like no. sorry. the one using almost exclusively child soldiers is the one responsible for children dying in battle. she’s right.

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