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so new people showing
hi everyone! I'm Kate, or Hawkeye
there's a lot of younger people in the mix as well
before the adults get involved and start poo pooing the idea of *kids* saving the world
I'm sure mine isn't the only one that's been saved by the younger gen a time or two

anyway
I've found a building here that is basically mine from home
my home
it's marked as Bishop Publishing

any teens or 20 somethings need a place to hangout
it's open
there's several games, an archery range, gym, and a lot of other things that can be used to either train or just relax

[address of building here]

feel free to join us
it's all good

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They're not. Child soldiers are forcibly compelled, often kidnapped, and have no alternative other to assimilate to the cause. Superheroes are better than that.

yeah? they all woke up one day and decided combat was their favorite thing to do, and no one influenced them?

I think the news coverage of superheroes is enough to influence anyone, but it’s not the same as aggressive influencing.

news coverage alone doesn’t give you the drive and the skills for that sort of thing.

Metahuman genetics happen at birth, and just because someone has training doesn’t mean it was forced on them. I played sports at school. Nobody made me.

As though some superkids aren't backed into a corner too.
Distinctions without a real difference in the end.
Just instead of fatigues they've got tights.
Still end up with dead kids.

And all the kids brought here?
Forced to save their worlds?
What are they?

I think we should stop debating things we don’t have firsthand experience with. We’re kidnapping victims. I’ve been saying that from the start, but it doesn’t do any good.

Bold of you to assume what I have experience with.
But sure.

I'll go back to being the comic relief. Things are easier that way.

I’d ask you to share with the class, but I’m not trying to make things harder for anyone.

Enlisted in the army at 17 to get away from my shithole father.
Because it was that or the streets.

Saw literal child soldiers in Mogadishu and Baghdad.
Some couldn't have been more than ten years old.
Not all of them were forced into it, either.

[ He had meant to separate real child soldiers from young vigilantes, but in light of that statement, he’s not going to continue. ]

Understood. I’m sorry.

I'm sorry too.

Seems like you could use this place that Kate's set up.
Good place to dislodge the rod out of your ass and play some fucking Mario Kart.
I've already claimed Princess Peach.