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Teenage cops, sure. I wouldn’t personally agree (because the Wards have more oversight and accountability than your average American cops do) but it’s not an entirely inaccurate comparison. They are essentially hybrid cops/firefighters.

Child soldiers, meanwhile…no. For one, Wards aren’t forcibly conscripted into service. It’s a choice they make- not a completely free one, but a choice nonetheless. They get paid, they get healthcare, they even get to choose if they’ll attend certain fights! It just makes no goddamn sense that people keep saying this when on every level that comparison is just not true.

The Wards program tends to get a lot of flak (well the PRT/Protectorate does in general but that’s a separate convo) in the fandom- and it’s an odd mix of people saying either the Wards program is terrible because it forces kids to fight people (it really doesn’t) or because it doesn’t let the kids fight more people with less oversight and restraints on acceptable levels of force.

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But if you're going to give him shit for a fic that handles E88 characters badly (i.e. gives the Nazis too much slack, etc), 'Taylor Hebert, Medhall Intern' isn't that fic. E88 are not the good guys in that fic and the moment Taylor finds out E88 runs Medhall, she turns on them and they try to kill her.

Ack does have a fic that humanizes the Nazi characters too much and glosses over their sins - but that fic isn't 'Taylor Hebert, Medhall Intern', it's 'The Slippery Slope' the one where Taylor gets radicalized into joining E88 and it spends all sorts of time showing how chill and awesome the Nazis are (from Taylor's POV and from their own). I think the fic's title and general concept and overall trajectory still makes it clear enough this isn't meant to be seen as a good thing, but the execution still ain't great and it's not showing us the Nazis doing bad things much yet which makes the execution worse.

So like, if you want to hold up an Ackfic as like, poor handling of Nazis, there's much better options than the one where even Purity doesn't get any slack from Ack (Medhall Intern).

And like, I make this post because I keep seeing people holding Medhall Intern up as if it's some super Pro-nazi fic and like, factually, no it fucking isn't?