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[The feed comes up on Blake outside the Violet City gym. He's holding the Gear in one hand and tossing something small in the other. Behind him his Snubbull is sitting on his Mareep, both looking proud of themselves. For his part, Blake doesn't look so thrilled.]

Hell of a loaded word, "badge."

[He catches it on the toss and holds it up to the camera.]

Look at that. Does it looks like much use to you?

[He sighs and slips it in his pocket.]

Zap the crap out of a kid's birds and get a medal that lets you fly.

You know what the worst part is? It's not until right now I realized there's anything wrong with that. I'm getting used to it.

[He starts walking aimlessly down the street, Pokemon trotting after him.]

It's baseball season, not that you'd know it here. Can't remember the last time I missed Opening Day. But hell, now it's been more than a month. Just went right by. How's it even May if you're not arresting drunk idiots on Cinco de Mayo? It's not right.

[Blake looks troubled.]

It's too easy to get caught up in this animal fighting crap and forget about the real world.

[His expression shifts toward its more familiar flinty pugnacity.]

Almost everybody here's been here longer than me. Give me some proof you haven't forgotten. Tell me something about home. Anything, I don't know, something you miss.

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[Here is where you get the face that says he thinks something is wrong with you Blake.]

More like 'oh, my teammate hurt himself, going to make sure he doesn't die from bloodloss and I'll heal him as much as possible so we can continue the mission and I can do it better when we're out of enemy territory.'

[The kid talks about this like it's something he's seen for himself, and more than once.]

Here's a crazy idea.

How about you don't go on missions into enemy territory to begin with until you're old enough that a fake ID could fool somebody?

Whoever's in charge of all of this is one sick fuck.

Hey hey don't be like that! Seriously, it's not like I'm Kakashi or something, he started at five. I got graduated with my class at nine, and if my cousin is any indicator, in the future they like, waited til age 12 to graduate people. But times of war, you know?

It's okay.

Five?

You're kidding me. That's not even physically possible. You can't kill somebody when you can't even color inside the lines.

[Blake's voice is rising. The more Obito says, the more convinced he is that he comes from some kind of dystopian hellhole. The worst part is the kid himself doesn't see what's wrong with it.]

How long has this war been going on?! Christ, even then they still don't draft anybody under 18.

No, it's not okay! [The tendons are standing out on Blake's thick neck. He doesn't hear the curious noise Steve makes behind him.] What kind of twisted son of a bitch lets little kids die to prove his point?!

OI! My sensei would never let any of us die okay? I died when I wasn't with him and that was my own stupid fault so don't get all lumping in like that. We're not like the countries that require kills to graduate. We're not the countries that send genin to the war front and hope for the best. It's just. Not like that. Especially not my country.

The war started right before I graduated, but things were tense before that so just CALM DOWN AND LISTEN PROPERLY!

You trust somebody who'd send you out to fight when you should be in goddamn junior high?! Just because other places are worse doesn't make that fucking okay!

[Carter is turning dark red.]

I'll calm down when you see there's something fucking wrong here!

[He lifted his chin, shoulders straightening as he stared him in the eye, seeming to settle down as he got his temper under control. Yelling wouldn't work on this guy.]

The world doesn't change overnight Carter. The world takes small steps to change. People don't stop fighting just because we want them to, it takes time. Sensei is a good leader, he'll make peace closer, and if I'd been around for it, I would have taken the next step after that, then those who came after me would follow it up. Who knows, I might have seen real peace in my lifetime.

Getting angry about the past is totally never gonna make it happen though, now is it? That's how wars start.

[Nope. He is a one-way venue for yelling.]

[A kid calling him by first name like he's the reasonable adult rankles Blake further.]

[He's throwing his arms out, gesturing more and more violently.]

That's a real practical, believable plan coming from a guy who's getting little kids to fucking kill other.

And you're not dead! You're right there!

[He stared up at him, fingers twitching a little before he clasped them together. He didn't have anything to fear from this man and overt defensive reactions would not help.]

Younger people aren't sent to the front lines, they have missions, but combat is only a risk,not a certainty on those.

And I'm not even going to get into my living situation okay? One topic at a time thanks.

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