just a note. I will be traveling for the thanksgiving holiday in the u.s. so this will be the final update this week as I will be traveling to visit family. Monday will be back normal schedule.
Morning came quietly.
No clatter of dishes. No scent of brewing coffee. Just the pale wash of sunlight bleeding through the blinds and the silence of a house holding its breath.
Dayton sat on the edge of her bed, fully dressed even though she hadn’t slept. Her eyes were raw from the glow of her phone screen, but her messages were still unopened. She hadn’t texted Nicole. She hadn’t posted on GuardianNet. She hadn’t even opened the app that let her track Littles for ownership alerts.
She just waited.
Below her, somewhere in the kitchen, her mother was moving. Soft footfalls on tile. A drawer opening and closing. The familiar crack of the fridge. But no call up the stairs. No “breakfast’s ready.” No invitation. Just the sound of decisions being made without her.
Dayton stood, grabbed the folder from her desk, and headed down before her knees could remember to shake.
Her mother was sitting at the kitchen table, a fresh cup of black coffee cradled between her palms. She wore a robe, no makeup, her hair still damp from the shower. The look she gave Dayton wasn’t hostile. But it wasn’t warm either. It was clinical.
The folder sat in the center of the table.
Folded shut.
Unopened.
“I read it again,” her mother said, without preamble.
Dayton didn’t sit. “And?”
Her mother nodded to the chair across from her. “Sit down.”
Dayton obeyed. Her fingers hovered near the folder, but she didn’t touch it.
Her mother stared at her a long time. “You know what the real problem is, don’t you?”
Dayton blinked. “That I’m too young.”
“No,” her mother said softly. “It’s that you’re too certain.”
Dayton stiffened. “I thought certainty was strength.”
“It is. Until it becomes blindness.”
There was silence. Then her mother reached for the folder, opened it, and pulled out a crisp white envelope tucked inside the back flap.
She slid it across the table.
Dayton stared.
The envelope was unmarked.
But heavy.
Her mother’s voice was low. “That’s the first installment.”
Dayton looked up. Her breath caught. “You’re serious?”
“I’m always serious.”
She reached for the envelope like it might vanish, her hands trembling despite everything she told herself.
Her mother didn’t smile.
“I’m not co-signing the full amount,” she said. “You’ll take out the remainder on the junior Guardian deferment plan. You’ll work to pay it off. I won’t bail you out if you fall behind.”
“I won’t.”
Her mother’s eyes narrowed. “You don’t even know what ‘behind’ feels like yet.”
“I’ll learn.”
“You will.”
Dayton held the envelope tighter.
“I want conditions,” her mother said.
Dayton’s spine straightened. “What kind of conditions?”
“Weekly check-ins. Documented feeding schedule. I want video of his housing environment. No less than ten minutes. Every Friday.”
Dayton nodded. “Okay.”
“No public humiliation. No videos on GuardianNet. I don’t want to see you dragging him through the mall like a fashion accessory.”
“He’s not a toy.”
“Good. Prove it.”
Dayton looked at the folder again. The letter was still in there, pressed flat and final.
Her mother took a sip of coffee. “And if he ever tries to run?”
“I’ll contain him.”
“If he lashes out?”
“I’ll discipline him.”
“If he cries?”
“I’ll decide if it’s weakness or progress.”
Her mother set the mug down. “And if one day he asks to be let go?”
Dayton paused.
Her jaw tensed.
Her eyes didn’t leave her mother’s.
“I’ll remind him what he is.”
There was no satisfaction in her mother’s face. Only a grim stillness.
“That’s what I thought,” she said.
She slid the folder across the table to Dayton.
“Make the call.”
Dayton opened the packet, her fingers fast now, practiced. She flipped to the claim confirmation line. It was blank. Waiting.
Her mother watched her pick up the pen.
“Why him?” her mother asked again. “You never liked Mr. Rhys, and he never liked you. Why are you so determined to claim him?”
Dayton let out a small breath that was almost a laugh.
“Exactly,” she said. “That is why you should trust me on this. I am not blinded by nostalgia.”
She pressed her Guardian license card flat against the table with two fingers, lining it up with the edge like it mattered. When she spoke again, her voice was low and clipped, each word measured.
“Mr. Rhys is not trying to be a Guardian,” she said. “He is not trying to steal anyone’s Little or abuse the system. He is doing something worse in a quieter way. He is pretending nothing changed. He is trying to keep teaching like Smallara did not happen to him, like the law did not rewrite who and what he is.”
Her mother frowned. “The district hired him, Dayton. Someone must have cleared it. They assigned that college girl to him, what is her name, the student teacher, to handle his transportation.”
“Yeah,” Dayton said sharply. “That is part of the problem.”
She sat up straighter, trying to assert herself.
“The district brought him back and slapped a band aid on a federal violation. They assigned an unlicensed student teacher to sign the forms and be ‘responsible’ for his arrival and drop off. She walks him in from the staff lot, signs the SEA paperwork, and then disappears. She is not a licensed Guardian. She is not SEA certified. She is not in the room during class. That is not Guardianship. That is paperwork theater.”
Her mother opened her mouth, but Dayton rolled right over it.
“After December 31, 2020, every Little on United States soil is required by federal law to wear a collar in public,” she recited. “That is not a suggestion. That is not a guideline. That is statute. No collar means out of compliance. Out of compliance means SEA has jurisdiction to remove and reassign. Smallara Enforcement Agency exists for that exact reason. They police Guardians and Littles both, to keep everybody inside the lines.”
Her eyes flashed.
“He walks into Roosevelt Middle every morning four inches tall and uncollared. He sits on that little platform on his old desk and teaches literature to sixth graders with his bare neck showing. No collar. No tag. No registered Guardian present. In a public school. That is not a cute exception. That is a walking federal violation.”
Her mother shifted, uncomfortable. “He is not hurting anyone by explaining symbolism in The Outsiders.”
“He is hurting the law,” Dayton said. “And he is dragging everyone in that room into the lie with him.”
She tapped the license card once, a sharp little crack against the wood.
“Dr. Moroz wrote it in the SEA white paper, Policy 1904. You remember. ‘Unclaimed Littles placed in unilateral authority over full sized minors show a sixty three percent increase in risk markers, boundary confusion, role inversion, and authority distortion. Basically saying, when a dependent is allowed to act as master, everyone loses track of who needs protecting.’”
She held her mother’s gaze.
“He is not a Guardian. He is not trying to be one. He is something SEA never wanted to exist. An uncollared, unclaimed four inch man functioning as if he is still a full sized, licensed teacher, alone with kids and no legal adult above him in the room. That is the ‘dependent acting as master’ scenario in real time.”
Her mother shook her head slightly. “The district assigned that girl. They must think it satisfies SEA.”
“She isn’t licensed,” Dayton shot back. “Guardians have licenses, not stickers, not notes from the principal. We go through months of training in a generitech program, we pass federal exams, we are certified by the U.S. government to care for Littles. Littles cannot be Guardians. Littles cannot supervise Littles. Unlicensed college kids cannot magically turn into Guardians just because a superintendent needs plausible deniability.”
She sat back just enough to lace her fingers together, then leaned forward again.
“We have a dedicated Little and Guardian curriculum at Roosevelt. You signed the opt in. SEA aligned, age appropriate, fully audited. And notice who does not teach it. Not him. They put a full sized, SEA cleared adult with an active license on that course. Mr. Rhys never has to stand in front of a room and say the words, ‘Littles are a domesticated species. Littles must be collared by law. Littles are legally incapacitated and cannot own property or assets. Littles cannot serve as Guardians and cannot hold independent professional authority over full sized minors.’ He is walled off from that unit, like the truth about his own status is someone else’s problem.”
Her mother’s voice went soft. “Maybe they thought letting him keep his job was kinder. He was a good teacher. Kids loved his class. You even liked him before all this.”
“I respected the books,” Dayton said. “Not him. He always treated me like I talked too much. That actually helps here. I know exactly how he looks at people he thinks are beneath him.”
She swallowed once.
“Today he looked at my license that way. My Guardian license, with the SEA seal and certification number, the thing I studied all summer to get. He saw it and you could see it in his face, that little flinch. He did not say it out loud, but the look was clear. In his head, I am still just a kid and he is still the teacher. I am beneath him.”
She let that hang, then pulled the citations out like blades.
“Cindy Wessen said, ‘Every time we tell a Little he is still a teacher or still a leader, what we are really saying is that biology, law, and safety do not matter. That is not compassion. That is negligence with good PR.’ You shared that episode with me.”
Her mother’s expression tightened.
“And she also said,” Dayton went on, “ ‘Being a Little does not mean you keep your degree. Fair or not, it is the law.’ That is what happened to Jordy. That is what happened to Kelli. They accept that their degrees and certificaitons do not function anymore. They are four inch and six inch littles in a world that rewrote their status. Littles lost the right to hold licenses. Littles lost the right to work as independent professionals. Littles lost the right to be in charge of full sized minors. Littles certainly lost the right to wander around uncollared in public.”
She flicked her eyes toward the hallway, imagining the classroom, the platform, the bare neck.
“Prof Malik Duarte wrote, ‘You cannot build a stable society on the promise that pets may, one day, be peers.’ Littles are tiny people, yes, but the law treats them like a domesticated species. Collars, tags, Guardians. That is the framework. When the school district says, ‘Except this one, he gets to keep being a peer, a professional, an authority, without a collar and without a licensed Guardian present,’ they are cutting a hole in the whole system. And they are asking kids my age to stand there and applaud it.”
Her mother rubbed her forehead. “This still feels cruel, Dayton. Collaring a man you already dislike. Tagging him. Taking him out of the one thing he is still trying to hold on to.”
“If I wanted to be cruel, I would not be sitting here asking you,” Dayton said. “I would call SEA. Anonymous tip line. Uncollared, unclaimed Little in a public building, in authority over minors. Smallara Enforcement Agency would send a team, walk into his classroom, and remove him. They would process him as a federal violation, assign him a number, and send him wherever the system has space. Shelter, facility, worst case some overflow kennel setup they use for unclaimed Littles. He would not get a say.”
She took a breath and her voice softened, but there was still iron under it.
“Harper Lin said, ‘A collared species is a cared for species. The moment a Little starts believing he is above his collar, he has already become a danger to himself.’ He does not even have a collar to be above. He is four inches tall and walking right past the law that says his neck should never be bare in public. SEA exists to stop exactly that. They police Guardians who fail their Littles and Littles who break the limits placed on them. Right now, nobody is doing either job for him.”
She put her hand on her license again.
“I am not asking you to let me punish him,” she said. “I am asking you to let me do the job I trained for. Guardians are licensed and certified to care for Littles because Littles cannot care for themselves inside this legal framework. Littles cannot be Guardians. Littles cannot be teachers of full sized kids. Littles cannot appear in public spaces without collars. That is the world we live in, whether we like it or not.”
Her gaze did not waver.
“You raised me to believe laws matter. That we do not get to ignore the ugly ones and only follow the comforting ones. The law says: after December 31, 2020 every Little must wear a collar or be in violation of federal law. The law says: Littles are four inchs and six inchs , classified as Homo Parvus, a domesticated species that requires licensed Guardianship. SEA says: unclaimed, uncollared Littles in authority over full sized minors are a risk. The Guardian manual says: stepping in to correct that is a promotion for the Guardian, not a punishment for the Little.”
She let out a long breath that seemed to take the last of her resistance with it, but not her resolve.
“You can think the system is wrong,” she finished quietly. “You can hate it. I probably do too. But until it changes, the kindest thing I can do for Mr. Rhys is stop helping everyone pretend he is still what he legally cannot be, and finally give him what the law says he has to have.”
Her voice dropped to a near whisper, steady and cold.
“A collar. A tag. And a licensed Guardian who will tell him the truth, even if he hates her for it.”
Her fists curled on the edge of the folder, knuckles white.
“Everyone knows what he thought of me. He didn’t even have to say it. It was in his face. In the way he smiled when I asked him to address me properly. Like he was indulging me. Like I was some naïve little girl trying on a title too big for her shoulders. Like I didn’t matter, and never would. Not to him. Not in that room.”
She looked up, her eyes glittering not with tears but with a hard, distilled fire.
“Do you know what that feels like? To do everything right, to rise to the top of your training class, to pass every exam, to be the best Guardian at my school, and then have someone who’s four inches tall smirk like he’s the one in control? Like he has the right to correct me?”
She let the silence breathe for a moment, the air between them electric.
“I don’t want his praise. I don’t want his friendship. I want the truth in his eyes. I want to see the moment when he realizes I’m not some child playing a game. That I am the one in control. That I am the reality now. Not him. Not his memories of before. And certainly not whatever fantasy he’s still clinging to.”
Her fingers uncurled. She picked up the pen.
“He won’t ever look at me like that again,” she said, quieter now. “Not if I own him. Not if I teach him what he forgot or never knew.”
And with that, she signed.
Deliberate.
Precise.
A single black line across the claim form, the beginning of something permanent.
She closed the folder.
Stood.
Clutched the envelope like a passport to another life.
And for the first time in days, she allowed herself a smile.
Well, Mr. Rhys, it was nice knowing you. This is going to be one tense pairing between him and Dayton.
In the great word of Godzilla “let them fight”
Let’s get ready to rumble!
Dammmm….. well you had a good run Mr Rhys! Welcome to hell! Top dog! Horrible spoiled Dayton….
Fuck Dayton ! Like she deserves shit thrown at her at this point
Oh and Daytons Mom is FINE!! wouldn’t mind being her little 😅
I agree, If I was her little I would rub her beautiful body down lol.
Thank you, I spent alot of time getting her just right. I wanted to her to look mature, but still a looker.
Not ginna lie I’ve been imagining a chubby Karen looking bitch.
god damn it lol what a bullshit comparison between jordan and Kelli’s situation and this one. they adapted because they have guardians that gave them the space to do so in one way or another. Dayton, you are going to force change via discipline. you’re mom is right, you want to play god and get revenge at the same time, you don’t care about this particular little and it’s going to be a awful experience.
Also, screw daytons mom lol you clearly have massive doubts about this and are going through it anyway? i don’t care if it’s all Daytons responsibility going forward and if she’ll be the one paying etc, it’s so fucked up to see a problem and just seemingly wave it off
Once again Dayton can go fuck herself and burn in hell for all I care I rather see Cindy and charity redemption arcs than this little brat and they done worse !!!!
I don’t know how it’s possible for me to want to see good things happen to two characters that don’t deserve it than this little brat of girl that hasn’t even done level shit as Cindy or charity like holy fuck !
And that Jordan and Kelli comparison piss me all the way off if she saw how broken it made both of them feel to have their futures that the strived for rip away because of the law you would understand it’s probably not a great feeling and it took time for them to adjust to that truth so fuck her !
And her mother just seeing this and thinking “oh I’m sure she’ll learn to be responsible enough” bs that she think this will be sun shin and fucking Rainbows is crazy to me !!!
Sigh
I can agree with this and still think a Preema Tech would’ve fit Dayton’s guardian style better, since they are trained in a military-style where the Guardian is the superior officer and the little follows orders.
that would be no fun and to easy for her. DAYTON wants to fix a naughty little lol-
So what im hearing Sara allowed Jordy the space and time to breathe and grow and figure things out to become the little he is today. While not every decision was ideal or may be viewed as correct. it was done from a genuine standpoint of care, concern and love.
What dayton is doing you feel isnt coming from that standpoint or belief set.
While you may not be wrong. Its also possible Daytons belief set is different and whiel she just genuinely believe what she is doing is right and in his best interest. it may not be morally acceptable to the reader.
Oh daytons mom hates littles. She has no sympthay for Mr.Rhys but she loves her daughter. So she can look at things objectively and view the other side and poke holes in it to test her because she loves Dayton. Thats why she let her guardian train even though she hates littles.
My ultimate opinion of Sara and jordan at this point is that Sara might have push Jordan a bit towards acceptance but generally speaking she never really sought to change him from a personality standpoint. maybe in some aspects (fashion, music taste) but I never got that “you WILL accept your reality” vibes from her. I think a lot of things she did for control were all done so in response to her mental health, which i think is totally valid to do to an extent. I never got the feeling that sara wanted to put jordan in his place and make sure he knew it. even with the hierarchy of the house explanation thing, that felt more of a playful explanation than a serious one.
Dayton’s beliefs are way different to me though. This is honestly probably what we would have seen from Madison had her littles not been her parents, but idk enough about her to say that she craves obedience control and power the way that Dayton seems to. tbh, Madison’s shown times with Kenzie or her friends where she can defer to their opinions. The law and procedural stuff might be the catalyst, but Daytons actions and words both here and with Thomas tell me this is a personality thing, though I don’t think it’s a set in stone one as there are very very small glimpses where Dayton seems to question if her beliefs are right, like these last 3 chapters and part of the earlier ones in class. That being said, morally speaking, I think what she seems to be wanting is a red flag and a reason why she shouldn’t be getting a little. Like lets say she does end up with Rhys, breaks him and trains him like she wants to, and eventually he’s as obedient and submissive as Trina, what happens after that point? Dayton’s already said or heavily implied she doesn’t want Rhys for anything more than obedience, so if she got him to that point, i’d expect her to get bored and move on and look for another project. She’s not looking for a little to be a friend and companion, she’s looking for one to break and isn’t thinking about the result or the next how many years of life she’ll spend with him, and that’s my big issue with her as a guardian as it stands now. And why i’m pissed at her mom lol
Mother fu$&4)# no no no I don’t care what Dayton thinks is right fuck her this doesn’t seem like a healthy mindset to have a little like Mr. Rhys
Like god lord she literally isn’t doing this to help Mr. Rhys in an way just take away what he loves doing and has a passion for
God once again Jordan was right to think bad about her because this proves his point and how dare she use their condition for why they lost their certification to what they went to school for and lose as a way to back up her point she can fuck off
I feel more sorry for Cindy than her I feel more sorry charity than her and they did worse !!!
Like a child who hasn’t done the level of shit those two have done I feel more bad for than her ! At this moment of time and the information and time spent on them at least but good lord
Okay rant over happy thanksgiving and see you Monday next week
Well, either way, Mr. Rhys is either Property of the School District, which still makes him ultimately government property, as federal dollars support the district. He is either a ward an asset of the state or the federal government.
But you could argue she is doing this to help him but her belief set differs from yours. So she si not approaching it from the same viewpoint.
As knowing you from your comments you and dayton dont have the same beliefs and certainly not about littles. You still view a little as an equal with the full rights of a human being.
Dayton is coming at it from the persective that the government is right, what she was taught was right. What she trained was right. And based on all that she is seeing something that is right. It doesnt look right, its not legal, it doesnt smell right. So she is saying something.
She was being truthful when she said if her intent to hurt Mr.Rhys she woudl just anonymously report him and they would investigate. She wouldnt need to do all this. She is doing the extra to help him but maybe not in the way you or others agre with her views. But reasonable minds can differ as they say.
I think the biggest problem from a government point of view is it sets a legal precedent that could undermine the little laws in place if someone is arrested for a undocumented little.
0) Enjoy your holiday
1) “She hadn’t even opened the app that let her track Littles for ownership alerts.” There’s an app for that?
2) “I thought certainty was strength.” “It is. Until it becomes blindness.” Mrs Harris keeps hitting winners
3) “You’ll take out the remainder on the junior Guardian deferment plan. You’ll work to pay it off. I won’t bail you out if you fall behind.” Damnit, that’s a yes.
4) ““No public humiliation. No videos on GuardianNet. I don’t want to see you dragging him through the mall like a fashion accessory.” weirdly protective for someone who hates Littles, but I could see that being more about protecting Dayrton
5) “And if he ever tries to run?” “I’ll contain him.” You sure? You didn’t do so well last time a Little tried to escape you
6) “And if one day he asks to be let go?” pretty sure that’ll be day one, possibly every day for a while
7) “Why him? You never liked Mr. Rhys, and he never liked you. Why are you so determined to claim him?” Because he made her feel small while she was trying to do the same to him.
8) “The district hired him, Dayton. Someone must have cleared it. They assigned that college girl to him, what is her name, the student teacher, to handle his transportation.” That’s a good point, I’m assuming most students are assuming the law is being followed behind the scenes. Even if they don’t know the specifics
9) “She is not SEA certified.” How do you know that?
10) “After December 31, 2020, every Little on United States soil is required by federal law to wear a collar in public.” The collaring Law also gives a one-month grace period to aquire a collar, which he could easily be in.
11) “He walks into Roosevelt Middle every morning four inches tall and uncollared” Technically ,he starts in the school
12) “He sits on that little platform on his old desk and teaches literature to sixth graders with his bare neck showing. No collar. No tag. No registered Guardian present. In a public school. That is not a cute exception. That is a walking federal violation.” You’d think he was walking around with his cock out, the way she’s reacting
13) ‘Unclaimed Littles placed in unilateral authority over full-sized minors show a sixty three percent increase in risk markers, boundary confusion, role inversion, and authority distortion” Only if one considers them as needing to be lower, if one is ok with Littles having whatever status they’ve earned, then it’s not an issue
14) “He is something SEA never wanted to exist. An uncollared, unclaimed four inch man functioning as if he is still a full-sized, licensed teacher” he is claimed by her school; she should know companies can claim Littles
15) “The district assigned that girl. They must think it satisfies SEA.” and for all the Haris’s know, it does
16) “We have a dedicated Little and Guardian curriculum at Roosevelt. You signed the opt in. SEA aligned, age-appropriate, fully audited. And notice who does not teach it. Not him. They put a full sized, SEA cleared adult with an active license on that course” that’s because Mr Rhys is a literature teacher, but it does sound like there’s another teacher Dayton can ask about Mr Rhys and the legality of his position.
17) “In his head, I am still just a kid and he is still the teacher. I am beneath him.” That is how classrooms work
18.1) “Being a Little does not mean you keep your degree. Fair or not, it is the law” I’d imagine that depends on the degree, but for all she knows he got recertified in the period he was absent for.
18.2) “That is what happened to Jordy. That is what happened to Kelli. They accept that their degrees and certifications do not function anymore.” I don’t know, apparently Jordan’s driver’s licence still counted
19) “When the school district says, ‘Except this one, he gets to keep being a peer, a professional, an authority, without a collar and without a licensed Guardian present,’ they are cutting a hole in the whole system. And they are asking kids my age to stand there and applaud it.” Systems change, society used to say women can’t be teachers, and girls can’t be students, those Laws changed, and it started with exceptions.
20) “This still feels cruel, Dayton. Collaring a man you already dislike. Tagging him. Taking him out of the one thing he is still trying to hold on to.” Oh, it is, but that’s just how you’ve raised her
21) “If I wanted to be cruel, I would not be sitting here asking you,” would call SEA. Anonymous tip line. Uncollared, unclaimed Little in a public building, in authority over minors.” there are multiple ways to be cruel, I’m not certain which is worse, your actions or that hypothetical.
22) “Harper Lin said” “Prof Malik Duarte wrote” ““Dr. Moroz” Loving all the random scholars Dayton’s dropping in this one.
23) “The law says: Littles are four inches and six inches” Guess that means Jordy and Greg missed the cut.
24) “The Guardian manual says: stepping in to correct that is a promotion for the Guardian, not a punishment for the Little.” it could very easily be both, especially with a Guardian like Dayton. (I’ve also noticed you’ve started capitalising Guardian, like you’ve done with Little)
25) “It was in his face. In the way he smiled when I asked him to address me properly.” That is not a proper address for Guardians; that is just your ego, inspired by the ego’s of Cindy and others like her.
26) “Do you know what that feels like? To do everything right, to rise to the top of your training class, to pass every exam, to be the best Guardian at my school, and then have someone who’s four inches tall smirk like he’s the one in control? Like he has the right to correct me?” What about how he feels, he went to college to get his teaching degree, passed every exam, then likely had to jump through even more hoops, fight tooth and nail just to keep his job, then some uppity student decides she wants to talk down to him, that he needs to address her with reverence while clearly not respecting him any more, thinking he deserves to lose everything he’s ever achieved, a punishment more brutal than most, just because his genetics aren’t the same as hers.
27) “I don’t want his praise. I don’t want his friendship. I want the truth in his eyes. I want to see the moment when he realises I’m not some child playing a game. That I am the one in control. That I am the reality now. Not him. Not his memories of before. And certainly not whatever fantasy he’s still clinging to.” And that’s precisely why you shouldn’t be a Guardian; this isn’t about caring for a Little and helping build them up despite all they’ve lost, this is about tearing one down.
28) “He won’t ever look at me like that again, not if I own him. Not if I teach him what he forgot or never knew.” I’m not sure Dayton would like the way Mr Rhys looks at her after claiming him. How do you think she’d react if Mr Rhys killed himself while under her care?
29) “A single black line across the claim form, the beginning of something permanent.” Here’s hoping the response she gets is “We’re sorry, the Little you are requesting is not available for claiming right now.”
ooo almost a 30 post thread.
0) Thanks, american thanks giving is all about good food, Family and american football. So its hard to have a bad time.
1)There is an app for everything can entice people to spend thousands of dollars and lock them into recurring fees and food. and medical costs. This is america the land of never missing an opportunity to monetize something.
2) I feel like Mrs Harris has alot of lethal points.
3) It probably also means a phone call to daddy to see much seh can get to lessen the cost she has to payback. Dayton is alot of things but a fool aint one.
4) Well the idea behind it is that Mrs. Harris loves Dayton. Even though she hates littles. So she does whats best for dayton in every situation. If she is going to have a little whether Mrs. harris likes them or not. She will ensure Dayton does so correctly that wont not only get her in trouble is also appropriate.
I wanted to write her as a good mom regardless of her beliefs. As what i like about her hcharacter is that while she has some bad viewpoints on littles. She is a good person. She is nice and caring. She loves her daughter and puts her first in every situation. Will go with less herself so dayton doesnt have too.
5) Shes learned since then. Jordy woudl never have the opportuntiy to do that again with Dayton. It was a lesson for her.
6) I would assume so as well. I mean i would ask.
7) thats one argument i dont think is completely accurate as if she wanted him to feel small her later point of she could just anonymously tip the SEA. She does believe what she is saying and that its for the best. Even though others may not. Which does show conviction of her beliefs.
8) Yeah that is also daytons point. People who dont know any better just assume things are right and just when they are not.
9) Well, she’s not a guardian, so it would be illegal for a government agency to place or condone a little being placed in untrained hands. It would be like placing a child with a sexual offender as a caretaker.
10) Mr. Rhys was gone for several weeks though. which would have been over a month. As they were talking about if they were straight up getting a new teacher in the first chapter he was gone so long.
11) That is true. you got me on that one.
12) Well it is illegal what she is depicting.
13) that is the beauty of stats they can say manything depending on how you sue them.
14) Those companies also collar there littles. They have guardian or a guardian trained people overseeing the little. Steph’s mom is trained and is lisa’s direct. She looks out for her and whle Lisa was originally the hospitals she had guardian support.
Mr. Rhys does not. Even in generitech there is guaridan trained people watching over the little cities. The little leaders meet with guardian trained people regularly.
15) Dayton knows she isn’t guardian trained which means she doesnt meet all the needs.
16) that doesnt mean anything though. My wife is a science teacher but she teaches social studies which is history but they dont call it history till high school
But her greater point was that they actively have a course taught in the school that district is having the kids take that point out things Mr. Rhys isnt doing.
17) Well i don tknow if most teachers would agree with students being beneath them.
18) Well the issue with the way the law exists right now is that he wouldnt have a degree to get a teaching license you need the degree or so many credit hours. So he wouldnt meet hte requirements if he doesnt have the degree as it voids his education.
Byrce being in california is years later and also california is more progressive but also byrce has a guardian in Mia who did provide him with everything he needed and is there for support. Which is more then mr rhys has.
18.2) Loophole as you say.
19) in america women were teachers historically. Even dating back to the 19th century
20)Throwing Mrs. Harris under the bus.
21) I like the idea of you being overloaded by her cruelty
22). She is educated on the topic so I really worked at having in univese citation
23) lol I like the idea of Dayton telling them they are less than littles.
24) I did not realize that.
25) I like the inspired by part
26) now now, dont turn daytons point around and make it not about her. thats not allowed lol.
27) So you;re saying dont do what she does best? Try less hard? Dayton only knows how to hit home runs in meanness.
28) Probably how anyone would look.. Seeing a dead body is one of the worst memoris i have.
29) then the next line would be: Here is a 10% of coupon for the following premium littles available in your area.
A) i hate to say it but Dayton sounded convincing lol. I feel more for Jordan and Kelli then I do the teacher
B) I a strange way I think the little teacher is in a dangerous position and all it would take would be one angry not close to brain being developed 12 year old to grab him or hit him across the room for a bad grade or reprimand.
C) I do think the littles need a guardian, I just don’t think they should have everything like degrees and money stripped away that has nothing to do with their size. they can still work via the internet. Hell I did for years across the world lol.
D) instead of calling them animals, I would give them the same legal status of little kids that need a parent to take care of them and love and protect them., and cant vote.
E) I think the collar again wouldn’t fly on a kid, why put it on a tiny adult that’s with its little mommy? I think the chip is more then enough if they get lost.
F) I’m just trying to think in terms of the smallara world, what would be best for everyone.
A) that was part of my goal I wanted her argument to soudn compelling and researched. As her character does know what shes talking about. She did do well and applied herself because of Sara and wanted Sara to be proud of her as dayton cares what she thinks. She thinks of Sara as a older sister and Sara think of Dayton as a little sister. and while they dont see eye to eye on everything like we saw earlier in the episodes. Dayton does rspect her opinion and loves her.
b) There are dangers that Dayton alludes to throughout. Other students could hurt him. He is kind of using her as a guardian without giving her the respect of one.
C) That is fair it is harsh butit was narratively interesting to have them lose power its kind of like a power inversion which I was goign for when i wrote Smallara prime. having expanded it out more to being legal for consisitency does it make it harsh and unfair but sometimes thats life even in IRL.
D) I dont call them little kids when writing in universe because it denotes a station and status and level of rights tehy dont have in this world. And I dont want to provide the reader with a canonical depiction which would allude to them having more rights then they do. As legally they have almost none.
E) The collar is becuae they are animals. The us government doesnt view them as people. Doesnt look at them as people. They are domesticated animals who fall under collaring laws like any other animal
F) Thats fair
I agree with al your answers. I love the defined structure of the smallara world, It makes for good feedback because there are so many historical links.
(Ominous musical notes) Dun, Dun, Dunnn
lol
Also, I wonder what Asuka expects the reactions to these chapters to be like, and how close or far to those expectations we as commenters get lol
Wel I know people dont like dayton as a person outside of a few people so I generally expected the reaction to this episode to be people upset that dayton is progressing because they don’t want her to have a little.
So i’m not surprised how people reacted. UNless its something new i generally have a good idea of where people will stand and what the reception will be.
Nothing today was otuside of my expectations. Some of the charity episodes I didnt know how people would react because she is a villian but i purposefully humanized her throughout the journey in a way that didnt forgiv her for what sshe did but allowed people to understand why she did what she did and how she felt remoarse at the end.
Even if Charity if she could would still be mostly the same person she was if she regained her size. Maybe slightly better but she wouldnt become mother teresa
I’ll say that I don’t know enough about dayton as a person to have a opinion of her lol Sara seems to think she’s a good kid, her friends seem to like her. She’s absurdly controling, immature and bratty that’s for sure, but outside of that i don’t really have an opinion on if she’s a good or bad person or if i dislike are one.
I hate her as a guardian though. that is 100% true lol
I was just curious in general though cause you mentioned the other day about it being interesting that people are looking at Dayton like she’s some powerful and strategic entity and not a 13 year old girl and that made me wonder if you ever introduce concepts or characters that you expect people to look at in one way and then our reactions to them are unexpected. Like how Kayla and Kelli are basically a\the fan favorite, i got the impression you didn’t expect everyone to be so passionate about them
I know I’m in the minority but I think she would be a good guardian with the right little that would be submissive to her and let her feel in total control and buy some of her comments he would be very good to the little on her terms.
I said this a few times but I would like to see a Madison and Cindy story happen with Dayton and her mom. That would be really entertaining
Hey guys! This is not a done deal yet. The wheels of the government need to start spinning. Like some have pointed out, we don’t know what the school district has done up to this point. Could be legal, maybe they made some mistakes and they will be corrected. Maybe another guardian will step in.
Another issue that has bugged me is that Dayton keeps insisting that because she is a guardian and told Rhys to call her by her title, that he should have complied. She is NOT HIS guardian, so he does not have to obey her (this may change 😝). If simply being a guardian allowed you to boss any Little around, then she could go around contradicting rules set by other guardians for their Littles.
Even if Dayton thinks Rhys has no guardian, that does not give her governance over him (yet).
So, in my opinion, she is just upset about being insulted (which she set herself up for in the first place).
Personally, I think all guardians should be of an an adult age before guardianship is assigned. 13 or 14 is just to darn young.
I disagree, I like the age variance as it leads to some unique dynamics and interesting storytelling.
the reasoning i used is the exact inverse mr rhys would have expected when I wrote it. Meaning if you are a student at the school and another teacher approaches you are you going to say “Hi Greg” or “Hi Mr. Martin” he;s not your teacher. So it’s the same situation.
She may not be his guardian but it was expressed to him what she prefers to be called based on the education and certications she has earned. Him calling her Miss Harris costs him nothing other then showing her a little respect. And not even respect of being a guardian respect as a indvidual who requested and asked to be addressed and called a certain way.
Thats the logic I used writing about that incident. That is why she is upset she worked hard at something and he refused to respect and dignify her effort while expecting her to respect his.
I chose dayton to be 13 on purpose as I purposefully dont objectify or sexualizez the characters of the world. Adult themes and topics will be covered sometimes but its nto gratitous sex or inappropriate as I part of the fun to me is writing a character like Dayton who is young, not as proper, can be immature and the situations that it creates as she knows her stuff. Shes not wrong in teh arguments in that everything she says in this episode is factual within the world of smallara. Shes not lying. Now as a 13 year old she could and can be missing that not everything is as black and white as she is making it out to be. When your young though you often think and black and white and that is her shortcoming. but also why its fun that she si 13
My problem with the age is that they are just too young for that type of responsibility. Despite some characters equating Littles to dogs or cats, Littles are much more sophisticated and teens just aren’t mature enough. Just learning the rules and passing a test is insufficient. Would you trust your children to a teenager for full time rearing (not just babysitting)? If a teen has the support of an adult then maybe, but in the case of Littles and the bureaucracy involved, I would only assign them to an adult and then the adult could delegate care to the teen.
All that said, I accept the Smallara world as you have designed it. Just like Lethal, I have to spout of now and then. 😬
I mean, adults can be immature as well.
Very true. I know many adults that struggles with the basics of life and I was a kid that was better a finances and planning than my parents and so were many of my friends of their parents in middle school. Age doesn’t = how responsible individuals are but it is the only general constant stat we can use to judge a persons maturity.
I enjoy when young kids are guardians of older littles. The way both sides deal with the reverse power dynamic like in Madison’s story is fun to see because I like littles having to learn deal with their world being controlled by a kid and having to learn to humble themselves if they are going to enjoy life as a little. I enjoy the sex stuff when adults are involved because its a major drive in humans and in animals but not years like 12 years old’s, that would not be good.
Hey just curious .. is there a story or a story scheduled for a supersmallaravirus ? The infected persons become super tiny maybe smaller than ants … one mindless teenage girl could have a whole city of them at home getting them to all sort of trouble with don’t know leaving a teenagermagazin on top of the habitat so a giant Sabrina Carpenter looks down on them, or she leaves her phone nearby and the incoming messages causing earthquakes because of the vibration, or a friend is visiting and gave the city a kiss 💋 so they saw the lips for a few days and a small doll is placed inside the habitat as their Statue of Liberty ?! Or an accident let the habitat fall into an open dresser and it lands in the cup of a giant bra for 16 year old girls 😀 things like that would be cool to see 🙂 and Dayton could rule over an entire city 🙃
idk about that, but a spin off where littles have their own littles cause of a smallara mutation would be interesting. I know wash likes the idea of the virus mutating so this might be a fun one for him
Mhh nah this would be the same like a normal story … if Dayton own a city of superlittles she would made a weekly livestream called daysaters where she causes trouble in little town 🙂 that’s what my idea is about 💡
your right I’m into the virus mutating, but i wanted it to effect some immune humans that thought they were safe like Cindy did making for more switch in power dynamics which are interesting to me, I’m not really into micro humans because there is less of a chance to interact with normal size things and create attachments to normal things.to small and normal people would lose interest, i would think. just like more people are into cats and dogs then bugs. i understand some people are into miro stuff but its just not my thing. I’m in to more power dynamics daytime drama show stuff. I blame it on my accident making me a house husband lol.