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He really likes sailor moon, he has never told the crew and does in fact shoot them if they get too close to finding out.

There are definitly those who brush it off, like Minato who trained Kakashi and Choza who had a seven year old Gai on his team.

I mean, the genin age I don't cringe as much at cuz they do D rank missions which are non fighting missions inside the village.

It's when Minato takes a six year old Kakashi onto an actually dangerous mission in the lost tower movie

Or they promote Kakashi to chunin age six (when he'd start taking more dangerous missions outside the village) that I really cringe. I mean, it's gross that they would have a five year old doing work at all cuz that's a whole level of fucked up, but chasing cats and helping old ladies isn't bad. A genin's job is to train to get better and help the villagers in their village. Not to do dangerous missions (Hiruzen caving to Naruto's complaints was just being a piss poor Hokage but also story telling purposes cuz people would get bored with the constant d rank missions we would see and the training (hence why we rarely ever actually see then train)

But then the village turns around and decides things like 'ahh yes, this six year old will make a great chunin.' or 'this 11 yr old would be perfect for leading dangerous missions and being the captain over full grown adults' or 'this 11 and 13 yr old is perfect for anbu' and my favourite (sarcasm) let's convince this 13 yr old to murder his entire clan cuz we're afraid of them and don't want to treat them like human beings.

I just...

We spent a lot of time discussing how much Armand is emulating Marius while still being traumatized by some (most) of Marius's behaviour five centuries later, which is obviously very true and interesting, but Armand emulates also a lot of Santino in the way he run the Coven and torture Daniel and gaslight people into his own vision of the world/situation.

For Armand, the "Maitre" and the Cult leader roles are quite interwined. He is Maitre for the Coven and the Theatre des Vampires and he run them like he used to ran the Cult, more or less.

"Maitre" is (more or less) French for the "Master" he used to call Marius and Santino was the one who, through his example, taught Armand how to run a cult.