A couple days had passed when Evan, Madison and Brooklyn walked into Evan’s room slinging their bags onto the floor before plopping down themselves to relax. Charity turned her head hearing just the end of a conversation that had started before they entered.
“Do you know what would be cool, guys?” Madison said, tucking her legs underneath her as she leaned against Evan’s headboard, her phone abandoned beside her. “If the three of us moved in together after high school, like a big city apartment or a loft downtown, and we built our own little community. Just us… and our Littles.”
Evan and Brooklyn both lit up like a pair of sparklers.
“Omg,” Brooklyn grinned, “like a self-contained unit but with a built-in helper system? Like, each Little has a job?”
“Exactly,” Madison said, straightening up, animated now. “We train them with different responsibilities. One handles laundry and clothing maintenance. One takes care of morning prep, coffee, breakfast, making sure our bags are packed. Another runs errands in the apartment. We rotate based on strengths.”
Evan nodded eagerly. “It’s like a functioning household but optimized. They’re not just pets, they’re part of our ecosystem.”
“And we’d have a Little leader,” Madison added, her voice sharp with certainty. “One of them could be trained to oversee the others. Enforce the rules. Make sure our standards are kept up when we’re not around.”
Brooklyn laughed. “A Little manager? I kind of love it. She could be like the RA of our apartment.”
“Exactly,” Madison beamed. “She keeps the others in line. We’d give her a tiny clipboard or something.”
Evan giggled. “With a pen leash. Like she gets demerits if she loses it.”
Charity, still in her lap, felt the words land like stones. Their apartment. Their future. Their empire. Built atop the backs of Littles they’d trained and broken like prize ponies. It wasn’t even theoretical, they meant it. She could see it in the glow on Evan’s cheeks, the hunger in Madison’s eyes. This wasn’t a daydream. It was a blueprint.
And they were already drafting roles.
Already imagining her there.
Charity clutched the hem of Evan’s jeans where she sat. She remembered her parents’ penthouse, marble and glass, brushed gold fixtures, the quiet buzz of the climate system. Back then, she would laugh at the thought of managing a task list. She didn’t even pack her own bags for trips. Now these girls were building a future where people like her folded socks, scrubbed floors, and enforced obedience among their kind.
And the worst part?
She could see it working.
“Imagine the consistency,” Madison continued. “We’d have, like, rules about how they sit and stuff. So they always look neat. Vocal response training. Rotating uniform themes. Littles who look sharp. Functional. Dignified.”
“Dignified,” Charity nearly choked. Dignified, as if anything about this life could be dignified.
Brooklyn tilted her head, her phone now aimed lazily at Charity, who was curled neatly into Evan’s lap. “We could make it look really aesthetic, too. Like, good lighting. Reels. a flow channel, maybe?”
“We’d go viral,” Madison said confidently. “My mom always says the future belongs to people who can package structure as beauty.”
Evan nodded slowly, stroking Charity’s hair. “And this one… she’s gonna be our template.”
Charity didn’t move. Didn’t flinch. She stared at the thread on Evan’s jeans, focusing on one tiny fray like it was a prayer bead. Her pulse thudded dully in her ears.
“I can already see the training modules,” Madison added. “Like, three main rules: Obey, stick to the schedule, and keep each other in check. The leader keeps the other Littles accountable, but ultimately, we decide rules.”
“We’d have a little law book,” Brooklyn offered, laughing. “Like a real one. With clauses.”
“We’d write it ourselves,” Evan said proudly. “It would be so much better than the ones online. Most of those are just punishment cycles. We’d build one around performance and rewards.”
“And culture,” Madison said. “Songs. Chants. Little mascots. A morning pledge.”
Charity’s skin crawled.
She wasn’t just a Little. She was the test case. The prototype. The future lit up before these girls like a social media campaign: sleek, modern, controlled. A world built for them, by them, down to the smallest gesture.
Her.
Charity Stevens.
Who used to have her own suite and a staff.
Now being discussed like inventory. Like blueprint.
Like property.
She wondered if this was how Alejandra used to feel, moving silently past her in the hall, dusting picture frames of a girl who never looked twice at her. Back then, Charity had thought herself generous for smiling. For not being too demanding. But now… now she understood what it meant to be a fixture in someone else’s home. Not because you wanted to be, but because you were placed there. Because it made their life easier.
Now it would be her placing dishes on a table in a high-rise kitchen while Madison unboxed a delivery. It would be her leading a team of Littles through cleaning protocols while Brooklyn filmed a “day in the life” short.
It would be her upholding the laws of their apartment.
Or being punished by them.
Evan gently tapped her head.
“Hey,” she whispered, almost tender. “You’d make a great Little Leader. You’re smart. You learn quick. You could help the others stay in line, make us proud.”
Charity didn’t speak. Didn’t flinch. She stayed curled in Evan’s lap like a doll left on a cushion, silent, pliable, present.
But inside, her thoughts screamed.
A Little Leader.
That’s what Evan had said. With a grin, with affection, like it was a gift. A compliment.
Charity’s throat felt tight.
She could see it, that was the worst part.
She could see herself pacing in front of other Littles, reciting the daily pledges, checking chore lists, administering the soft reprimands Brooklyn and Madison would find so adorable.
She could see herself praising another Little for good posture.
Helping Evan draft their little house laws.
Smiling when Evan said, “That’s my girl.”
And worse,
God help me, she thought, I could do it.
And they’d love me for it.
Her pulse beat faster. Shame pooled somewhere behind her ribs. Not just because she had imagined it. But because a small, rotted part of her had felt relief in the imagining.
Because leadership, any leadership, felt like survival.
She wouldn’t be free.
But maybe she wouldn’t be last.
She pressed her forehead against the fabric of Evan’s jeans and closed her eyes, willing the thought away.
But it lingered.
The vision of herself with a clipboard and a collar. A badge and a leash.
Leading others… into the same cage she hadn’t escaped.
And smiling while she did it.
Charity as the Little Leader would be an interesting concept. It’d give her a purpose outside of chores and earn her more praise from Evan..
I wounder how that would fit in with her bond sugar level job.
I think she’ll get it, power will go to her head, then it get’s taken off her and given to Trina
true, although Evan already seems to love charity quite a bit. Its more charity’s resistance to Evan’s affection
Wow this girls really want to make a prison for Littles than a home with these words damn but who knows could change in time from sounding like a little nightmare to more of a grey area home where it strict and shit but something special for all involved in this
I think Greg and Cindy’s shrinking will change these plans
“We’d go viral,” Madison said confidently. “My mom always says the future belongs to people who can package structure as beauty.”—-
Yes maybe then what happens when your hero Sara says that what you guys are doing is cruel….
Hmmmmm hard to say since Cindy’s method is so deep into their understanding of what a little and guardian relationship should be maybe they find a mix bag of both sides
I hope Sara would do that
Sara wouldn’t, though; she’d maybe find it a bit much, but she’d likely praise their creativity and innovation. She loves the idea of Littles working and assigning them chores; she’d probably give them tips if she found out.
Sara may not even find out. Its not like she personally knows them or hangs out with htem. She has had some interaction with Madison and Evan but not any kind of level where she would know htem or even retain who they are as they would just be people to her and not really even specifically special or standout plus they are younger than her so it not like they would evn be peers.
A) All the chores talked about seemed to much for littles to do. Even a army of them.
B) The lack of love and companionship in their words is sad and a little bit of a bummer, if they are going to make a little village, does that mean they are going to let them have baby’s?
C) it sounds like Madison would be taking Cindy with her and that would be interesting because Greg would be with Macizie. I know they haven’t shrunk yet lol.
D) I am guessing things will change after Greg and Cindy shrink.
A) That was my thought too. They could never do laundry, at least not in a reasonable amount of time. They couldn’t even lift a pair of pants or a shirt!
Scrubbing floors? If you don’t mind it taking weeks to complete then OK.
The “Bigs” are going to have keep making their beds and do laundry. Shoe cleaning and toilet cleaning are still on the agenda as we have already seen in previous stories.
C) In Madison’s World they changed the plan to moving into Madison’s house and McKenzie would have the master bedroom and be in charge. So Cindy and Greg would still be together.
IF I remember right legally, if the girls split. Greg goes with kenz and Cindy goes with Madison.
Yes, if they split, but the story has them getting along for now.
I just thought that if Madison moved out with her friends that they would no longer be living together and Cindy would be Madison’s little. good for Cindy to be around her students as a little lol.
We are thinking the same way on most of the chapter lol.
A) they are were also just talking as girls that age would. It wasnt meant to be moses coming down from the mountain with the tablet locking things in. This was just where there idea came from.
B) When you are talking about structure and rules you would envision for a society. That does naturally remove love and companionship as you are working on something more rigid. Societal laws, soceital structures generally are made without love. As love comes seperately from the indviduals who make up the society.
c) Greg and Cindy are only seperated if Madison and Mackenzie go their seperate ways or have some huge fight where custody would come into play.
D) Well they dont even have a community yet its all just talk and dreams so anything could happen.
A) I figured that was what you were going for (probably should have said so in my earlier comment).
Yeah, kids that age think big and not always realistically.
Eventually, if they are successful with their “community”, I could see them becoming social influencers promoting their vision of Little guardianship.
BTW, you probably already realize this, but maybe others have not picked up on it, but my personal viewpoint is that Littles are still people, so my comments will always have that “bent” to them.
I am with you bud. I believe littles are ironically a more advanced humanoid life form that is better for the earths health and if left alone will overtake the humanoid presence on earth because humans are slowly being phased out from poising themselves and small amounts of humans becoming littles every year. The littles have the ability to survive without humans if they are able to create their own living spaces and tools to survive.
At least Charity was able to curl up in a warm place on Evans leg and is able to just listen and stay out of their sight.
it is interesting that there is less little woman then men but all the girls have woman littles
female littles generate more revenue then Male littles canonically. Same parallels in reali life. you can buy 2000 variations of barbie and maybe like 50 kens.
so does that mean males are a lot cheaper because there are more of them and smaller and weaker then females? Are the Fees & taxes for males less then females because they much cheaper and the goverment need to give humans a reason to buy the males because they don’t want a glut of male littles they have to take care of & not making them money.
1) “A couple days had passed when Evan, Madison and Brooklyn walked into Evan’s room slinging their bags onto the floor before plopping down themselves to relax” This story really feels like a montage
2) “If the three of us moved in together after high school, like a big city apartment or a loft downtown, and we built our own little community. Just us… and our Littles.” seeds getting sown
3) “We train them with different responsibilities. One handles laundry and clothing maintenance. One takes care of morning prep, coffee, breakfast, making sure our bags are packed. Another runs errands in the apartment. We rotate based on strengths.” I’m curious how Littles could do some of those jobs.
4) “It’s like a functioning household but optimised. They’re not just pets, they’re part of our ecosystem.” Slaves, the word you’re looking for is slaves
5) “A Little manager? I kind of love it. She could be like the RA of our apartment.” “Exactly, She keeps the others in line. We’d give her a tiny clipboard or something.” It seems like the role Charity would want, but I think Trina will get it, lol
5) “Their apartment. Their future. Their empire. Built atop the backs of Littles they’d trained and broken like prize ponies” Many empires were built on the backs of slaves.
6) “Back then, she would laugh at the thought of managing a task list. She didn’t even pack her own bags for trips. Now these girls were building a future where people like her folded socks, scrubbed floors, and enforced obedience among their kind” so it’s basically how charity used to live, but now she’s at the bottom, and with fewer rights than the people previously below her.
7) “We’d have, like, rules about how they sit and stuff. So they always look neat. Vocal response training. Rotating uniform themes. Littles who look sharp. Functional. Dignified.” We’ve seen some of this in Madison’s world; it’s getting dark
8) “Dignified, as if anything about this life could be dignified.” It could, just not the way they’re describing.
9) “My mom always says the future belongs to people who can package structure as beauty.” well she’d know, it’s part of her job, both now and in the future.
10) “And this one… she’s gonna be our template.” suck it Trina, lol
11) “Like, three main rules: Obey, stick to the schedule, and keep each other in check. The leader keeps the other Littles accountable, but ultimately, we decide rules.” at this point it’s still slavery
12.1) “We’d have a little law book, Like a real one. With clauses.” “We’d write it ourselves,” and give no input to the Littles like many corrupt governments before you
12.2) “It would be so much better than the ones online. Most of those are just punishment cycles. We’d build one around performance and rewards.” Somehow I think yours would still heavily involve punishment.
13) “And culture Songs. Chants. Little mascots. A morning pledge.” Culture? Or Cult-ure
14.1) “She wondered if this was how Alejandra used to feel, moving silently past her in the hall, dusting picture frames of a girl who never looked twice at her” yeah, probably, except not as bad because Alejandra know y’all were vulnerable, so she knew freedom was inevitable (and could quit anytime she wanted)
14.2) “Back then, Charity had thought herself generous for smiling. For not being too demanding.” and make no mistake, Evan, Madison and Brooklyn think the same, Krisi, Emma, Ava and even McKenzie will as well.
15) ““You’d make a great Little Leader. You’re smart. You learn quick. You could help the others stay in line, make us proud.” She’s also bossy and used to having authority; even if you gave her this power, it’d go to her head, and she’d likely need it taken from her and given to Trina (who we know has it in the future).
16) “She could see it, that was the worst part. She could see herself pacing in front of other Littles, reciting the daily pledges, checking chore lists, administering the soft reprimands Brooklyn and Madison would find so adorable. She could see herself praising another Little for good posture.” very much sounds like her
16.2) “Helping Evan draft their little house laws.” That part I highly doubt she’d have any role in
17) “And worse, God help me, she thought, I could do it. And they’d love me for it.” and hse has done it.
18) “Not just because she had imagined it. But because a small, rotted part of her had felt relief in the imagining. Because leadership, any leadership, felt like survival. She wouldn’t be free. But maybe she wouldn’t be last” People with no power often cling to any small amount they can acquire; they are the fastest to get corrupted by it.
3) I was thinking the same thing. they sound like slave owners not pet owners.
5) based on history the word they are looking for is House slave
5) History repeats itself.
6) what comes around goes around for charity but worse.
7) just being a good little slave is not enough.
8) from the mouth of babes evil is coming out. seems like parenting.
9) Cindy will be living it soon and hopefully Madison can train her different
10) Trina didn’t seem nice so go Charity lol.
11) They are being good giant slave owners.
12)From slave owners to tyrants. That was fast lol.
12) Tyrants cant get away from punishment.
13) sounding like a place in Europe in WW2.
14) being a human and little is totally different.
14) giants looking at littles as less then even if they don’t mean to is normal.
15) Trian and Charity are the battle of girl bosses lol.
16) its sad being a 12 year old’s bootlicker lol
16) littles don’t make laws, their brains are to small. That is what Cindy said lol.
17) she knows but still wants a giant to pet her lol.
18) she would be like a hall monitor in school and the other littles would talk behind her back.
3) I’ve been saying it since the Body-Hottie days
5) That’s two words
5) Again?
6) exactly
7) I think this extra stuff is part of being good slaves
8) Damnit, Cindy
10) Right, because Charity seemed so much nicer/s
11) Nah
12.1) It’s not a great distance
12.2) Never
13) Not quite, this is dominance, not genocide, but I like the enthusiasm
14.1) Yep, they are
14.2) Very normalised.
15) not Girlboss, more like Girlmiddle-management.
16.1) Better licking the human’s boot directly than licking a fellow Little’s boot. (best is not licking either)
16.2) Cindy fucks it up again
17) I meant when she was human
18) Absolutely.
18) I’m thinking to the extreme. It makes me think of the holocaust camps where the Nazis had designated prisoners as enforcers. It’s like Lethal said, some people will latch on to any amount of power.
It is sad a group of young girls couldn’t come up with a fun loving community for basically doll people. The concepts they are talking about is beyond the sex stage of their development. Scary how fast they are growing up around the city.
1) I wanted it to move along more so it covered more time. I like how smallara prime is a granular depiction but I wanted the time with Evan to be able to realistically show a level of growth.
As with the mainline Smallara series its harder to show Sara’s growth because everything is happening with within 7 days. Where Charity gets a bit more time to grow and you see days, weeks, or months between chapters
2)I wanted to show the ground floor of how the little community started. Obviously not every idea or suggestion they have makes it into how it ends up being. But I wanted to show that excitement and how people throw out ideas and people run with things. This was very much the wouldnt it be cool phase.
3) Some of them are vague though laundry can mean alot of things. It could be delinting a sweater or maybe it has sequins and they would polish them. Alot them are purposefully broad and like was mentioned with #2 they are just tossing out idea without workshopping or fully thinkng about specifics.
4) One could call it slavery but the argument in universe as you know is since they arent people and slavery is owning other people Although if it was put to Evan as Slavery in the true sense she would probably give pause.
5) Most civilizations were built on the back of slaves if you trace things back. I cant htink of many that arent which have historical relevance.
6) exactly. Now charity is the “alejandra” as Evan put it.
7) I mean this is a prequel so nothing should be surprising but it also hasnt ever been depicted fully realized so the actual final form is anyones guess
8) they are 12. I wouldnt take the depictions to seriously. The way I envsioned things at 12 are now they turned out when i graduated high school The same could be and probably is true for them.
9) very true but not how cindy would have imagined her life turning out.
10) lol. I like how Evan props Cindy up here over Brooklyns little.
11)Although in in a way you could say the other litltes are enslaved to a little.
12) Charity or Trina may have input into it as they would be around for he entire process. Even if its giving there two cents to Brooklyn or Evan.
12.2) In theory the littles themselves would decide if it would be a punishment cycle or not. As the more rebellious the little the more punishment would be needed. Charity hasn’t been punished really by Evan.
13) Even america has the pledge of allegience and mascots are quite popular. Im not sure about austraila but it would not be out of ordinary comment for american culture. But i did like the joke.
14) Alejandra wasnt obligated to work for them. She could have left at any point.
15)Im shocked that you think Charity Stevens of all people would let something like power over others go to her head. What on earth would lead you to believe that? lol
16)It does sound very charity.
17)oh most certainly
18) I agree. IM not saying it would go to charity’s head but it would be like the darkside of the force. it would be easy for her to fall into its traps.
1) Yeah the time skips betwixt each chapter do that well
2) It was showcased well
3) Fair enough
4) Claiming that enslaved groups “aren’t really people” dates back to the dawn of slavery, it’s no new for this universe, even in the world Dani compares size discrimination to skin colour discrimination.
5) True, though some had more of a reliance on slavery than others
6) Truly a cutting remark
7) valid
8) agreed
10) you mean Charity?
11) yep
12.1) maybe, but seems unlikely
12.2) That is not how that works, but if you wanna play that game; the humans decide if it’s a punishment cycle or not. As the more unfair the humans make it, the more rebellious the little would become, and there the more punishment would be “justified”.
13) We have a national anthem we sing at special occasions. And mascots are usually connected to brands not the government
14) Exactly
15) her past, and her present thoughts
18) It’d be like relapsing on a drug addiction recovery.