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Especially when they don't really think of the children as people unless they manage to grow to adulthood.

Or when they can see the future and know exactly when and how they are going to die and still do nothing.

Or how they immediately used the initial success from trialing having doctors treat the sick children to have a bunch more children.

Or how they got really freaked out when one of the doctors quit so they slapped heavy restrictions on the rest of the doctors to make them behave.

Or how they got outraged that one of the doctors euthanized a suffering child instead of letting them wither away through years of suffering before their eventual guaranteed painful death.

Or how they got shocked that one of the doctors started claiming that they were evil and needed to be destroyed and couldn't understand why.

Or how they imprisoned the last doctor without access to support for using an untested treatment on himself in order to save a child.

Or how when a man who wanted to be the very best protector he could be ended up being really good at killing instead, they forced him to execute sick children for thousands of years, all the while having more and more children. More than they could ever protect from monsters and other adults despite that being their original supposed purpose.

Akura Charity is my favorite supporting character in the entire series.

Introduction to the story? Immaculate.

Spending babysitting duty in an artisans smock carving statues? Immediately identifying the cop and letting your doorman rough him up while you talk to his prisoner? The casual twenty-story flipping of a chisel while you take a break and talk to your nieces friend?

Flawless. Perfect. I suspect she had babysitting duty because it's the closest she gets to actually relaxing. She's the straight man to her father's wacky shonen-protagonist-post-series-nonsense.

And they're both immortal so this couple months a decade where you don't have to send Dad through a portal because he's trying to start fights with randos out of boredom, or trying to keep people from throwing themselves at your vicious wine aunt grandmother.

Her friendship with Min Shuei? Delightful. Charity is the perfect foil Min Shuei and once again is the one brain cell keeping the world together all through the mid series.

Her relationship with the freshly powered up Lindon? Easily slips into addressing him as an equal despite their previous history.

Her sacred arts are cool as fuck.

She doesn't hold back on sarcasm.

She offers lessons in cutting people with words.

And she seems so down-to-earth for one of the world's most powerful beings.

Inktober day 6 - Durandiel

Underrated character imo

- The two judges he met before even hitting Iron were Restoration and Destruction

- He has pure, cleansing madra and destructive blackflame

- Lindon's soulsmithing tool Genesis has this same duality

- He had the Void Icon and the Hammer Icon

- Void is what comes before creation, Hammer is used to create

- Lindon's two Icons represent Nothing and Something

- Or the absence of something and making something

- Lindon represents growth from Nothing (Unsouled) to Something (one of the most powerful Sacred Artists to ever inhabit Cradle)

- He is meek and polite but able to throw his weight around if he wants to (his personality has two sides here)

- Lindon calls himself the End but he is also a "creator" as a soulsmith

- He says the above twice, and once at the end of his Cradle arc but at the beginning of his Abidan arc. This moment is both a beginning and an end simultaneously

- The above also links to the idea of a circle. An embodiment of opposing dualities in a single manifestation. Every point of a circle is both a beginning and an end

And therefore in charge.

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My impression of the Abidan after reading Reaper: