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[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

X-Men, Animorphs, Digimon, Avatar the Last Airbender, Naruto, Fire Emblem, Batman Family, quiet a few JRPGs....

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What's interesting about Animorphs is that it actually showed how being turned into a child soldier fucks a kid up.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

Animorphs slaps for this reason among many yeah. Its incredible how much genuinely thoughtful stuff is packed into these short little pop novels for kids lmao.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gundam

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Earth Federation Forces most moral army in the galaxy...using child soldiers to win world war 3.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Couldn't agree more. Disgusting behavior

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

fry looks at your profile pic

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

Me sowing: "Oh sweet, now I'm going to train and mentor the special Gundam boy, but I'll just not suck at it."

Me reaping: "Oh god, oh fuck, my psychic child soldier is in a coma now. Gonna dip out for a while."

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

In all fairness to Digimon, it was a computer program recruiting child soldiers and no one designed the program.

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

raiden-source But my child soldier family is different!

[+] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This was originally true of my works because of the JRPG/Shonen inspiration but I ended up aging up a lot of my characters that were like 16/17 to 19-20, though there's still a few explicitly kid members of the party.

[+] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah my story is multigenerational (ive sort of mentioned this before to you I think?) so it tells the character's stories until they die (actually, even past that point, since an afterlife is involved, lmao sorry my story's scope is way to massive to deal with) and then a new generation takes over and such. I'll definitly have to think about including themes of war trauma, especially for the characters who are not grown when the story starts. Also a lot of the main characters have been training for war since early adolescence (and one grew up in a prison camp) even if they are young adults when the story starts, so I'll have to deal with that theme as well and the fallout that has on their psyches. Interesting to think about. Thats why I like talking about it. Brings up new themes I realize Ive underbaked. Which just ads more to the scope lmao but there it is.

[+] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking of doing POV chapters too but I'm not sure that works in Kinetic novel form because I want the charachter on scene, though I could have only one charachter expressing inner thoughts per chapter and just bounce around as necessary? Not a new character per chapter though no.

The other problem is some key characters have secrets lol. Which I'm not sure how to handle. Like it would seem kinda suspicious to have those characters never have POVs, or have their story be told through the eye of a bodyguard or something when other characters are not.

I think I'm probably still going to do something POV-esque because I do want SOMEONE giving personal perspective on events and I dont know that I want it to just be a handful of them. I guess i'll just have to be careful with the scope of WHO is getting POVs so its not so broad that its really suspicious when a particular character isn't.

[–] Cammy@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

New Slop: Suicide Squad Babies!

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 months ago

Baby Geniuses: Special Ops

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

The Found Family trope always has me in tears kitty-cri-texas

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

But I was told we were beasts of no nation I-was-saying

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Tsuwabuki.

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