I personally love the fact that Halt’s training methods were unusually ruthless when they had ZERO right to be. Like it’s cannon that no other rangers dismiss their housemaids and make their apprentices do the chore but Halt did. He made Gilan and Will suffer for sooooo many years bc of it. LIke, Halt was a crown prince, he grew up in a castle, he had servants do literally everything for him and probably had no understanding of hard work whatsoever and yet he still made his apprentices do all the hard work.
And thus, it is with great pleasure that I announce to you all my new favourite headcanon.
When Pritchard first started training Halt he got really Annoyed that he refused to do any form of hard work (with the exception of training, but he found that fun so it doesn't count) so he took him to the middle of the forest and left him alone there for several days. This , of course, made Halt learn the hard lesson that yes, housework is necessary (as sad as that is TwT). When Halt found his way back Halt was very indignant and yelled at Prichard for a bit but he just found it really funny. He kept on doing that same test every time Halt complained about housework until he learnt that he just had to do it.
Flash forward several years and Halt is talking to Crowley about it. Crowley is all confused, like, “what do you mean he made you do the housework?” and Halt is just learning that Pritchard did that to make fun of him. At that moment Pritchard reveals himself from the shadows and starts openly guffawing at him.
This is what led Halt to make Gilan and Will suffer through five years of unending housework. All just to get back at Crowley and Pritchard. (And also so that Gilan and Will could have the same experience that he had with Cowley when he first found out because, let's be real here, he 100% would).
