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[dangerousthings.livejournal.com]

I have a question. How come you have to be 15 or older to take the SeeD exams? I can keep up just fine in the big kids fighting classes and I already knew how to fight before I came here!

Oh, and I'm not 10 anymore. It's been more than a year since I got here so I'm 11 now.

-Luki

Comments

[musagetes.livejournal.com]

Well, to begin with, people won't hire mercenaries who are ten years old.

--Instructor Cynthius

[dangerousthings.livejournal.com]

They will so! Me and Noki were bounty hunters!

~Luki

[musagetes.livejournal.com]

Not here they won't.

[dangerousthings.livejournal.com]

They should! And besides, I'm 11 now!

[Clearly, this makes all the difference in the world to her.]

[musagetes.livejournal.com]

Eleven isn't much of a difference.

[dangerousthings.livejournal.com]

Sure it is. I've had a year of extra training and Mama made sure me and Noki knew how to fight before. If I can fight just as good, why can't I take the exam?

[musagetes.livejournal.com]

Because you're not old enough by the standards here.

[dangerousthings.livejournal.com]

I don't want to go to school for four more years! That's boring!

[musagetes.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they'll let you simply stay in the Garden until you're old enough without needing to take classes, or allow you to take the exam and simply not let you take on missions. I don't think this has been an issue yet.

[worthyheir]

Wait... What? You have to be 15 to take the SeeD exam? This is nonsense! What's the point of attending this stupid school at all?

- Damian Wayne

[batmansphoenix.livejournal.com]

- Instructor Jason Todd

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Probably a few reasons, really. Most of them boring ones, like how SeeDs require a varied skillset rather than just fighting ability. You need more emotional maturity, not just the ability to fight well.

That, and here, they'd rather kids be kids.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, it'll break you out of that attitude.

Didn't you read the admissions/graduation info?

[monkingaround.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either. But I guess it means we're stuck here for the next few years.

- Aang

[dangerousthings.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't they just make me take the exam all over again when I was fifteen anyway?

[dangerousthings.livejournal.com]

I guess because we're stuck here anyway. But I don't think it's fair.

~Luki

[dangerousthings.livejournal.com]

But my body heals up right away and I'm good at it. Of course I should fight!

~Luki

[dangerousthings.livejournal.com]

I was a bounty hunter back home. I'm really good at tracking and finding people. So I already can do more than just fight.

~Luki

[dangerousthings.livejournal.com]

You know what would be schway? If we talked to the Headmaster and he said we could take the exam early!

~Luki

[bratbeyond.livejournal.com]

[musagetes.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Like I said, I don't think this has been an issue yet.

[worthyheir]

I read the letter I was given and the course book. Had I seen that I would waste my life away in this place, I would have left.

[worthyheir]

That's an understatement. It's age discrimination, pure and simple. Age should not be a factor into how skilled we are, considering I'm stronger than some of these so-called seeD's already.

[turnip-rage.livejournal.com]

So you didn't even look into the Garden rules?

Well, whatever. If you want to ignore vital information about the place you're staying in, that's your business.

[worthyheir]

Whether or not I read the rules is not the problem here. The problem is the blatant age discrimination practice that this school thinks is acceptable.