Dayton felt the weight of Ezra in her hands as she picked her stuff up in math class. The chatter and excitement from the SEA raid was still fresh in the teachers and students minds. While the SEA had taken a step back returning the halls to normal. A few still remained in the office.
Dayton grabbed her bag slinging it over her shoulder as Hayden came up along side her. She watched her eyes looking at Ezra. Mr. Rhys was their English and literature teacher. He had taught civics at one point as well but every year he had taught them English. He was strict and annoying in what he asked. He expected more then most but also had a brilliance to his lesson plans.
Now as Hayden came up along side her. Everything had changed. She curled her fingers helping to shield her former teacher. The small form of man radiated a tiny bit of heat as the two walked towards the door of the class. Dayton and Hayden’s eyes watched the tiny man who now looked small. The podium of books was gone. The booming voice that puled through the microphone and its speakers were peeled away. Now he was just a little. a
The hallway hit them like a tide the second they stepped out of math.
Lockers slammed. Sneakers squeaked on waxed tile. Someone’s laugh ricocheted off the ceiling and turned into a thousand smaller laughs. Dayton kept her shoulder squared like the noise was weather and she’d packed a coat for it.
Mr. Rhys sat in the shallow cradle of her palm, his back against the curve of her thumb. The world was a wall of moving bodies and swinging backpacks. A kid brushed past too close and the wind of it made him flinch anyway.
Dayton didn’t look down at him at first. She just kept walking, eyes forward, like she was escorting something fragile through a hurricane because, technically, she was.
“I’ll protect you,” Dayton said, voice low so it didn’t become hallway entertainment. “Really. I know I’ll have to earn your trust and respect.”
Mr. Rhys let out a small, humorless sound. It wasn’t quite a laugh. More like a scoff that had been sanded down by exhaustion.
“You’re thirteen,” he said. “What could you possibly protect me from.” He glanced up, then past her, at the stampede of students. “Half of these students are bigger than you.”
Dayton finally looked down. Her eyes were bright in that way that meant she was holding the line between “fine” and “about to go off.”
“Yeah,” she said. “And they don’t mess with me.”
She angled her hand slightly, shielding him as a couple eighth graders blew past, loud and careless. He caught the edge of one hoodie, the smell of cologne and cafeteria fries, then they were gone.
“They didn’t before,” Dayton continued, “and they certainly don’t now.”
Mr. Rhys’s mouth tightened. “Because of… what. A certificate.”
Dayton’s grip stayed careful, but her tone sharpened. “Because I’m Dayton.”
Hayden’s voice floated in from Dayton’s left, half a whisper, half a smirk. “She means she’s terrifying in a customer service way.”
Dayton shot Hayden a look. Hayden raised both hands like, I am innocent, I’m just a narrator.
Dayton turned back to Mr. Rhys. “I don’t need overwhelming strength to protect you,” she said. “Power, respect, popularity, skill, friends. They all work together.”
Mr. Rhys stared up at her. He hated, on principle, how coherent that was.
“And protection,” Dayton added, “also means safety. Security. Caring.”
That word landed heavier than the rest. Caring. Like this was something she’d decided to do properly. Like she’d read the manual and highlighted the parts she liked.
Mr. Rhys’s throat worked. He didn’t want her caring. He wanted his height back. His classroom. His keys. His life.
Dayton kept going anyway, voice still low but now edged with something personal. “You ignored me, Mr. Rhys.”
He blinked, and for a second he forgot the hallway and the scale of everything because the accusation was so familiar. The kind he’d heard from students who wanted praise. The kind he’d dismissed because he had thirty kids and one brain and a curriculum.
“You’ve always thought I was… maybe not nothing,” Dayton said, eyes locked forward even as her words aimed straight at him, “but less than.”
A group of girls passed them, glancing down at Dayton’s hand. One of them whispered, “Is that…?” then got yanked along by her friend.
Dayton didn’t give them a single ounce of attention.
“I had to work twice as hard,” she said, “and you never acknowledged me.”
Mr. Rhys’s face tightened. “That’s not true.”
Dayton’s gaze snapped down to him so fast he felt it like a spotlight. “Name one time.”
He opened his mouth. Closed it.
He could name times he’d corrected her. Times he’d called on her. Times he’d told her to stop talking. He could not name a time he’d acknowledged her the way she meant.
The hallway swallowed their silence for a beat. A bell rang in the distance. Somewhere, a teacher yelled “WALK” like it was going to change the nature of adolescence.
Dayton exhaled through her nose, not quite a sigh, more like she was letting herself be honest for exactly two seconds and no longer.
“I don’t expect you to change,” she said. “I’m not asking for an apology tour.”
Hayden muttered, “Thank God,” under her breath, then immediately looked guilty, like she’d just made a joke at a funeral.
Mr. Rhys stared up at Dayton, and for the first time since the day had started, the shape of the trap came into focus in a new way.
It wasn’t just the government. Or the law. Or the collar.
It was the fact that Dayton Harris, age thirteen, had been building a spine out of his indifference for years. And now she was holding him in her hand like proof.
Dayton’s fingers shifted, and he felt the tiniest adjustment, like she was making sure he stayed steady as they approached the tech wing. The glass walls ahead reflected them in fragments: a girl with a firm jaw and a little man in her palm, like a strange class pet that used to grade homework.
She softened her voice again, just slightly.
“I’m still gonna protect you,” Dayton said. “Even if you don’t like me. Even if you never do.”
Mr. Rhys swallowed, the motion big in his small throat.
“And if I refuse?” he asked, because he needed to say it, even if it was pointless.
Dayton didn’t smile. She didn’t gloat. She just looked at him with that maddening steadiness.
“Then I’ll protect you while you’re refusing,” she said. “You can be mad. You can hate me. You can think whatever you want.”
Hayden leaned in, like the words were supposed to be private. They weren’t.
“You should see all the stuff she has in her room,” Hayden said, and it came out too casual, too quick. Then, without thinking, she added, “I guess you get to be Thomas.”
The sentence hung there for half a beat, shiny and stupid.
Hayden’s eyes widened. Her mouth snapped shut like she’d just bitten her own tongue.
Dayton stopped so abruptly that Mr. Rhys felt the motion echo through her hand and into his bones.
“He’s not Thomas,” Dayton said, too fast.
Too protective.
The speed of it was what made Hayden blink, caught off guard for the first time all day. Dayton wasn’t embarrassed. She was… defensive. Like Thomas was a thing she’d already decided to guard.
Mr. Rhys shifted in her hand, voice tight. “Thomas?” he repeated. “I didn’t think you had a little, Harris.”
Dayton’s jaw flexed. For a second she looked like she wanted to say none of your business on instinct alone. Then she remembered he was… him, and she was trying to be something better.
“I don’t,” she said. “Well. I didn’t. Not like… this.”
Hayden kept her eyes forward, suddenly fascinated by a poster about the robotics club.
Dayton kept walking, but her hand rose slightly, sheltering the pocket opening from the hallway like she was shielding him from drafts. Or from ears.
“In training,” Dayton continued, “Thomas was my training little. He’s… not mine. He was assigned by Generitech and owned by Generitech. We worked together as I learned how to be a guardian.”
Mr. Rhys’s brow furrowed. “Assigned.”
“Yeah,” Dayton said. “Like how CPR dummies are assigned. Except, you know, he’s a person.”
Hayden snorted once, then tried to swallow it like it hadn’t escaped.
Dayton shot her a look that said do not make this worse.
“And he became a friend,” Dayton added, softer, like that part mattered in a way she didn’t want to over explain. “He lives in a little city.”
Mr. Rhys stilled. “A… little city.”
“Yeah,” Hayden jumped in, relief laughing now that Dayton wasn’t mad mad. “He’s cool. You should see his apartment. It’s like… honestly it’s super cute.”
Dayton rolled her eyes. “It’s not ‘cute.’ It’s organized.”
“It’s cute,” Hayden insisted. “He has like little furniture and everything. It’s giving… Pinterest. For tiny people.”
Mr. Rhys’s expression tightened at the casualness, the way they said tiny people like it was a brand of dog.
Hayden glanced down at Dayton’s hand., then back up, trying to be normal. “I’m sure you’ll meet him eventually. I mean… you’re Dayton’s now, so it’d be hard not to, I guess.”
The words landed wrong. You’re Dayton’s now.
Mr. Rhys’s throat worked. He could feel the hallway watching even when no one was looking directly.
Dayton’s pace didn’t change, but her voice sharpened at Hayden, immediate correction. “Don’t say it like that.”
Hayden lifted a hand in surrender. “Okay. Sorry. I meant like… you’re with her.”
Dayton took a breath, forcing herself back into the explanation, back into control.
“I’m not comparing them, Hayden,” she said. Then she looked down toward her hand, like she wanted Mr. Rhys to hear the next part cleanly. “But I do have things for you.”
Mr. Rhys’s eyes narrowed. “Things.”
“Supplies,” Dayton clarified. “Because I thought I was going to claim Thomas.”
Hayden’s eyebrows shot up. “You did? I knew you thought about it.”
Dayton nodded once. “I wanted to.”
Mr. Rhys’s stomach tightened at the word claim. Not because he didn’t know the law. Because hearing it in her voice made it real in a new way.
Dayton kept going, steady but honest. “He didn’t want to be claimed when I got toward the end of training. So, I respected his wishes.”
That made Mr. Rhys blink. It didn’t erase anything. It didn’t make him safe. But it was… data. A fact that complicated the simple story he’d been telling himself: Dayton is a kid playing hero with a leash.
Hayden softened, just a hair. “He likes his job,” she said, quieter now, like she was trying to prove she wasn’t just running her mouth. “He’s like… weirdly proud of it.”
Dayton nodded. “He is. He likes his routine. He likes his friends there. He likes being… him.” She swallowed, then added, “So I didn’t push. I didn’t make it a thing.”
They passed a group of kids who slowed to stare at Dayton’s hand. Dayton’s shoulders squared. The kids looked away first.
Dayton’s hand shifted again, protective and precise. “So yeah,” she finished, voice returning to practical. “I already have pellets and stuff because I was preparing. Not because I think you’re Thomas.”
Mr. Rhys didn’t speak for a moment.
In her hand, he could feel the warmth of her body through her skin, the steady drum of her pulse. He hated that his world had become something he could fit in a child’s hand. He hated that he was learning her personality through how she carried him.
Finally he said, carefully, “And if I don’t want to be… claimed.”
Dayton didn’t stop walking. Didn’t perform. Didn’t look around for who might be listening.
She just answered, low and firm, like the truth was inconvenient but still the truth.
“Then we’re going to have a problem,” she said. “Because you already are.”
Hayden made a small sound in her throat, like she’d just realized the joke she started had teeth.
And Mr. Rhys, staring out from daytons hand at the towering hallway and the indifferent ocean of students, felt the world tighten one more notch around him.
Dayton and Hayden continued in lockstep chatting casually but Dayton was thinking about what she didn’t say. She didn’t tell him what she didn’t think he was ready to hear. Every little is claimed. Thomas is held by Generitech. While she didn’t claim him. Someone else just holds his leash. Littles are biologically dependent. They aren’t meant to live in this world. They require support and help to survive. They aren’t self sufficient. Left to their own devices there isn’t an outcome that leads to survival.
The tension with every word spoken between Dayton and Mr.Rhys is palpable. I sense that this will come to a head sooner rather than later.
Daytons in a weird\new spot for a guardian. She has some hardcore anti-little beliefs in terms of their autonomy and purpose, but I think her spending so much time with Thomas and seeing what he values and enjoys challenged those beliefs. So I could see her still being resentful and spiteful with Rhys since she’s a teen and wasn’t getting recognition she thought she deserved (and Rhys even realized he never gave) but at the same time, with help from nicole and kinsley and the stuff with Thomas, I can see Dayton being more considerate that she first appeared to be in these earlier chapters of this season
I agree, who knows, Dayton could end up being a guardian like Chrissy or Hailey down the road. It’ll just take her a while to get there.
I feel like Chrissy and Dayton aren’t that far apart. People just like Chrissy more as she does the same to similar things but I presented them in a different light then I did with dayton.
That seems kinda mean to Chrissy.
Their actions were very much opposites
1) Chrissy took a Little from a bad situation he didn’t want to be in and brought him into a better one with the desire to help him.
Dayton targeted a Little in a better situation, one he wanted to be in, and dragged him into a worse one with the desire for revenge.
2) Chrissy has a Little Shelter set up where she rescued wild and mistreated Littles.
Dayton bullied the Little of her ‘sister’, to the point where he had to be rescued from her.
3) Chrissy has a Little teacher and lost no respect for him when she found out.
Dayton had a Little teacher and imediatly started plotting against him when she found out (even if Ezra was collared Dayton would likely have still objected).
just to go on a tangent, is it confirmed Chrissy’s sanctuary is one of the generitech sanctioned ones?
The sanctuary is very much unsanctioned. Chrissy happens in 2022 and the smallara village project happens on a trial basis in 2025
WOW lol what’s the SEA think about that?
Well they would have to find out but they Are normally vague. Thats why they want to open a little store or eventually a sanctuary proper.
I hope Dayton never learns about this that’d put me in a weird position.
On one hand, if she reports it, that’s bad because it’d ruin the position of one of the better guardians in the series, which I’d drag her for.
On the other hand, if she doesn’t that’d break her word of not just following the laws she likes, which I’d also drag her for
she knows Chrissy “rescues littles” She doesnt know the context beyond that.
When did Chrissy find out Bryce was a little?
I think Londyn told her, or it could have been when he started wearing a collar.
pretty sure londyn messaged chrissy about it.
1) I mean he was in a store being sold as a little. I wouldnt say a bad situation. Worse then generitetch as Preematech is a more budget option littles. But she does view him as a rescue.
dayton identified a little who was in a dangerous and illegal situation and brought them under her care uplifting them to legal and safe lifestyle.
2) Chrissy is part of a illegal little operation which is housing undocumented littles and turning them over to government facilities.
that one fair on daytons part but both can be viewed as wrong.
3) Chrissy’s teacher took advantage of the generitech teacher program as did the district and Mia. So everyone is 100% legal and he is working under the oversight of Mia, and district has a liscensed guardian in the classroom for disiplinary purposes.
Dayton’s little teacher was not doing it legally. Even if he was collared he was still working illegally in a unsafe environment. Where he could have have given some kid and F and tehy could have snapped and tossed him off his desk or against a wall. Rhys could ahve fallen off his book stack or desk. A fire could have broken out and he would have been trapped on his desk burned alive unless someone came to get him.
even without the collar there are alot of things that were wrong.
Definitely some tension but to
Be expected considering what
Happened
I think Rhys is stuck on her age when in the world of smallara he is the child and she is the adult. Like many newly made littles, he still hasn’t mentally figured out his place in the world has changed. Even what he calls a child is is the size of skyscraper and she can freeze him with a single pet with a finger. Even his place in the little world is less then he was in the human world because he is going to be the small male wife to a aggressive alpha woman.
Kind of a nice chapter. Daytons being more vulnerable than i ever expected her to be, so she’s different from Sara in this regard, in a good way. I’m guessing she doesn’t have the same level of insecurities and whatnot that drove Sara to be seemingly calculative about what she reveals and says. It’s cool to see that in Dayton though as a person, hopefully between that and Nicole and Kinsley keeping her honest, she won’t be authoritative with Rhys.
She’s looking more like the guardian i thought she was becoming during the classes, too, which is a positive. I don’t expect her to change her views to the extreme degree, but i think the stuff with Thomas should be hitting closer to home in regards to a littles independence and things like that. Like yeah they’ll need a guardian to watch over and help them, but that doesn’t mean they need to live and die by their guardians will. I think Thomas’ way of life challenges a lot of her beliefs and has made her more open to what littles feel they are capable of.
Hopefully that all makes sense haha running on low sleep, low caffeine, and busy at work today
It makes a lot of sense. It’s talking
About the growth in Dayton as a person. She probably won’t ever be this extreme pro little rights person but there is a large space between where she was, where she is and where she could be.
She sees them as people more so then She did. But not fully equal but still Intelligent life forms that deserve respect.
yeah, i’ve noticed recently too that she and her friends have been calling them “person” or “people” or some variation recently, which, especially for dayton, really sticks out at a indicator of change to me. like I’d expect her to correct her friends or whoever when they don’t refer to a little as a little, so it’s good to see that not happening lol
Yeah,” Dayton said. “Like how CPR dummies are assigned. Except, you know, he’s a person…… so she thinks Thomas is a person… interesting
While I doubt Dayton will ever fully view littles as equals. She can and does see them as intelligent life. Existing in a higher regard than where she did with Jordy originally.
She’s still young and is still learning and growing. Thoughts and opinions can change.
If she were older she would be less likely to change. Like her mom probably isn’t changing at all.
i think Daytons maternal instincts have come forward and she will without knowing it , treat him like a child she needs to love and protect while teaching him how to act with a firm hand for his own good. i think Dayton like Sara will become a guardian with a older little that knows his place and is physically bonded to her so he will need to always be with her and know her mind and body like know one else because its his job as her little to serve.
I think love is probably a bit much. As she didnt like rhys before just because he is a little under her care i doubt she would automatically love him.
She will care, protect, etc. set rules and boundaries.
Given time and such its possible they could develop a level of friendship or love in the way someone loves there pet.
But she would always love Kinsley more then Ezra for example.
OK, first let me get my negativity out of the way 😁
Littles can be self sufficient eventually with the kind of cities that Generitech is building. I could see the need for Guardians disappearing. Since Parvus have the same cognitive ability that Sapiens have, they could develop a sustainable Eco-system of their own. Surely someone or some group in this universe have got to know that Parvus will spawn their own geniuses and STEM thinkers. At the very least Generitech, their compeitors and governments will want to leverage that resource.
Now, my positive remarks:
Dayton seems to be showing quite a bit of professionalism so far. I’ve stated it before, but here it is again. So far my biggest beef with her are the charms on the collar. If that is as dehumanizing as she gets with Rhys, then given the circumstances, he lucked out big time. Of course it’s only been a few hours with her so far, so…
Rhys is taking things pretty well too. Maybe he saw this coming and has reconciled much of it already, but I figure he has to have a meltdown at some point, not because he’s a jerk, just because of the way his life has so greatly changed. (Maybe he melted down earlier before this story started).
Still waiting with bated breath to see how Dayton’s mother is with him in the house. 😇
Part of Dayton means though is that even the generitech little cities that is something built by humans, controlled by people, its yes allowing littles to live with their own kind in a communityesque environment. But they aren’t capable of sustaining that on their own. Its powered by generitech services. The water is filtered and cleaned by generitech, the sewage is siphoend away by generitech, Refined materials are provided, etc. Actual humans manage the littles cities. Yes there are little leaders, and littles version generitech security who operate as police. But they are trained by generitech.
What she is saying is there whole civilization is still propped up by human society. If you just dropped them in the woods and said build out a home. They would all die. They would die from nature, from weather, they would eventually die from not getting all the nutrients there bodies need. They are a intelligent species but they are wholly dependant. Where even if a litlte had survial skills from when they were full sized. they are biologically so divergent from that point it wouldn’t correlate. As when you are a full sized person rain wouldn’t bludgeon you to death. You are capable of surviving winters, etc. You can forage for food while littles could forage they still need complex diet like humans do and they need to eat more becuase of their size. Which is why the pellets were developed to begin with. It allows them to eat normal 3 meals a day. There body digets it slower throughout hte day and provdies all nutrients they need.
Thats why we ultimately saw Sara’s method with Jordy not work of allowing him to eat normal food. It just wasnt sustainable so he has to eat pellets atleast once a day and then a curated diet
I’ve tried to show Daytons growth post training so the readers can compare and see for themselves how she has grown. As she is more mature then she was. She has grown in her opinions and views. Being around KInsley, Thomas, Ella, etc. has opened her eyes more. She’s still dayton. So i dont want to oversell her growth. Where i’m sure there are things she will do that people dont like she isn’t as much of a brat as she was when she first met Jordan.
1) “Dayton didn’t look down at him at first. She just kept walking, eyes forward” of course not, why would she check on someone she’s promised safety?
2.1) “I’ll protect you,” You’re the kind of person he should be protected from
2.2) “Really. I know I’ll have to earn your trust and respect.” This from the girl who attempted to demand it when she first saw he was a Little? I don’t believe her.
3) “You’re thirteen. What could you possibly protect me from.” I hope he holds onto this mistrust for a while
4) “Her eyes were bright in that way that meant she was holding the line between “fine” and “about to go off.” That’s all it took to get her there?
5) “Because I’m Dayton.” Because she has a reputation of cruelty and intimidation
6) “And protection, also means safety. Security. Caring.” SO Dayton’s admitting she doesn’t have what it takes?
7) “Like she’d read the manual and highlighted the parts she liked.” Sounds like her
8) “Mr. Rhys’s throat worked. He didn’t want her caring. He wanted his height back. His classroom. His keys. His life.” some he lost to genetics, others he’d lost to Dayton
9) “You ignored me, Mr. Rhys.” No he didn’t he actually paid Dayton a lot of special attention.
10) “The kind he’d heard from students who wanted praise. The kind he’d dismissed because he had thirty kids and one brain and a curriculum.” that would be difficult to keep track of.
11) “You’ve always thought I was… maybe not nothing, but less than.” He treated you like a student, which isn’t less than a teacher, but is below a teacher. Which is not the same as you treating him like he’s less than.
12) “I had to work twice as hard, and you never acknowledged me.” Gee why would a teacher who’d’ve known he was pre-shrunk hesitate to acknowledge a student with openly anti-Little idiology? That ‘s a head scratcher. (Not saying he was right, just saying it’s likely the consequences of Dayton’s choices)
13) “He could name times he’d corrected her. Times he’d called on her. Times he’d told her to stop talking. He could not name a time he’d acknowledged her the way she meant.” For someone who just acknowledged she needed to earn his respect, she’s taking it very personally that he didn’t respect her. (and it is his respect, he decides if Dayton’s actions do or don’t earn it)
14) “I don’t expect you to change, I’m not asking for an apology tour.” Bull fucking shit, changing him is her explicit intention.
15.1) “I’m still gonna protect you,” Protect him from what? Because we know guardians love to pick and choose what their Little does and doesn’t get protected from, Even the #1 guardian did that, including picking and choosing if and when her Little was and wasn’t protected from
SatanDayton.15.2) “Even if you don’t like me. Even if you never do.” I hope he never does, And Dayton is forced to live with the consequence of her actions in the form of a spiteful Little she can’t get rid of.
16) “Then I’ll protect you while you’re refusing, you can be mad. You can hate me. You can think whatever you want.” If Dayton was more trustworthy that’d be a powerful statement.
17) “I guess you get to be Thomas.” Yes, Hayden, bring up the Little she actually wants, rub it in more.
18) “Then she remembered he was… him, and she was trying to be something better” Part of me wishes I could trust Dayton on this, the rest of me just knows better.
19) “Like how CPR dummies are assigned. Except, you know, he’s a person.” Still feels like she’s lying whenever she calls a Little a person
20) “You’re Dayton’s now.” – “Don’t say it like that.” Still feels like purely manipulation fro Dayton’s part.
21) “I’m not comparing them, Hayden,” which would be for the best, no way Ezra will live up to Dayton’s view of Thomas
22) “Because I thought I was going to claim Thomas.” despite being told ad nauseum that claiming him wasn’t an option.
23) “He didn’t want to be claimed when I got toward the end of training. So, I respected his wishes.” That is not what happened, claiming him was never an option for you, you lying cunt.
24) “A fact that complicated the simple story he’d been telling himself: Dayton is a kid playing hero with a leash.” His story is the right one, Dayton tricking him like that is a dirty trick
25) “He likes his job, He’s like… weirdly proud of it.” You know what other Little liked their job before Dayton forced him to quit?
26) “He is. He likes his routine. He likes his friends there. He likes being… him. So I didn’t push. I didn’t make it a thing.” No, just forced that fate onto another Little.
27) “And if I don’t want to be… claimed.” Dayton didn’t stop walking. Didn’t perform. Didn’t look around for who might be listening. “Then we’re going to have a problem, because you already are.” There’s the real Dayton, not the illusion or performance she’d been displaying.
28) “Dayton was thinking about what she didn’t say. She didn’t tell him what she didn’t think he was ready to hear” not really Dayton’s place to say, but he may already know anyway.
29) “Every little is claimed. Thomas is held by Generitech. While she didn’t claim him. Someone else just holds his leash” The difference is Thomas’s leash is designed to simulate freedom, he’s living a life designed to let him forget the leash is there, Ezra was in a closer position to that which Dayton removed him from.
30) “Littles are biologically dependent. They aren’t meant to live in this world. They require support and help to survive. They aren’t self sufficient. Left to their own devices there isn’t an outcome that leads to survival.” I’m sure there are some littles who’d prefer the no survival option.
1) Just because she didnt look down doesnt mean she can’t see him. She just didnt purposefully gush over him or anything.
2) I still say there are worse people than dayton.
2.2) I like how you took her admitting that she well have to earn respect and trust into a negative.
3) I knew you would like that line. Even if it is a bit disengenious on his part.
4) Well they have a history. He isn’t exatly thrilled either.
5) I’ll give you intimidation but cruelty seems like a stretch being the only person who could claim cruelty would be Jordan and pretty much the whole school doesnt know him.
6) you are going in on her hard today
7) isnt that what most people do that. Highlight what they feel is important to them or material to the class.
8) I’d argue dayton didnt do and of it. She didnt tell the district to break the law nor did she tell Rhys to go along with someone that even a 13 year old was suspicous about. Yet he somehow thought was completely on the up and up. Thats on him as a grown man. Its not on dayton for reporting what was illegal.
9) He even admits he was wrong. He did ignore her in a meaninful way and only acknowledged her to basically bully her which is a grown teacher bullying his student.
10) maybe but its literally his job.
11) no he treated her as worse then his other students and even you acknowledged it. You talke repeatedly about how he called on her and singled her out. Then when moved to her friends in Nicole and Kinsley.
12) Mr. Rhys didnt have little based lessons before he was a little. So its entirely possible that he didnt know all of Daytons belief set in regards to littles. Being he didnt know much about what happened to Kinsley other then she was infected.
13) Well he’s been there teacher for 6th, 7th and now 8th grade till november. They have a long history at this point as teacher and student. Plus he is her teacher its not uncommon for a student to want acknowledgement from their teacher for their accomplishments.
14) Some of this i feel is you reading into what you want to see because of her history with Jordan Reeves.
15) the #1 guardian’s little also could have asked for help. Told the #1 guardian that dayton was blackmailing him. As Sara did put a stop to Dayton seeing Jordan.
15.2) She could get a second little in the future if Mr.Rhys really did stay spiteful. She wouldnt have to be mean. She could take care of him, feed him, etc. But just obtain a second little for everything else. Then Rhys could just sit at home and miserable. she doesnt have to cart him around everywhere. Chrissy doesnt take her little around her with her everywhere. He has to be careful what he wishes for.
16) well there is nothing dayton could do to make you trust her.
17) well she doesnt want him anymore. As they are friends. I mean she would take him in a second but she isnt actively trying to get him or anything. they are just friends.
18) I feel like that ship has sailed for you. Nothing he could do would change. Even saving 100 babies. Your a jordy guy and have placed all your trust, love and support in Sara. we all get it
19) What would you want her to call them?
20) How? Hayden is the one who said. dayton told her to tone it down and corrected her.
21) True. Thomas is a pretty high bar.
22) Well she got close. If Thomas had wanted to go Chloe wouldnt have stopped it.
23) I mean no one saw it happen but Dayton and Thomas so only they truly know.
24) its certainly the lethal narrative.
25) Probably the one who was illegally teaching, and radicalizing young minors with anti government propaganda and nearly got the entire school district closed by his actions. As he could have taught a regular cirriculum and still been teaching. he could have just acknowledged daytons acheivements and she wouldn’t have reported him. it cost him to be nice. Nothing to do his actual job what he is hired for and supposed to be passionate about and thats uplift your students and be their advocate. And thats not just to the ones you like. To all students. If you arent able or willing to d o that then are you really teacher.
isntead he was breaking the law, running his mouth and his illegal actions caught up with him. Now everyone who hired him is fired, fined hundreds of thousands of dollars and will have their licenses and certificate, and life work ended along with retraining process.
Dayton didnt do any of that. That was all Ezra Rhys and his mouth, his actions, and his Choices. He has to live with that. As he did that. Dayton didnt break the law. Dayton did say anti-governemnt rhetoric
26) She didnt force it. She just followed the law and they dug there own graves and he is living with consequences for his own actiosn and choices. He knew the law and chose to ignore it.
27) She wasnt lying. The US Government assigned him to Dayton. Thats not an illusion or performance. He did this to himself. He even stood in his class and told her that he was right and she was wrong. That he knew more and better the government. Then the US government said hold my beer.
28) no its not and she didnt.
29) Well its about perspective. As an outsider could say Generitech is weaponizing the idea of freedom and offering a simulated version as you put it which is just a marketed PR friendly version of Slavery in which they can extract free labor from away from the government eyes and regulation.
30) statistically you are right as there are always people who would prefer death over life. That is a impossibility to eliminate. In real life there are many people who kill themselves everyday. So just based on math you are 100% right. But its not something I really focus on and canonically only write about littles who want to live and value there life. I have no desire or want to write about a little who wants to die. real life can be depressing enough with horrible people doing horrible things without having to write fiction on it.
1) I guess,
2.1) And I still say there are better people than Dayton, bit are true
2.2) I turned her lying into a negative.
4) but he didn’t chose this.
5) Well then how did she get an intimidating reputation without cruelty, or anything similar?
6) I am
7) She wasn’t accused of highlighting important parts, it was just the parts she liked.
8) He was a grown man, but one who did check the legality of the matter, it’s not his fault he was deceived. Dayton chose to file her claim, he didn’t choose to be lied to.
9) Truel that was a smart-ass comment on my part.
10) and a mistake thousands of people with that job make.
11) I thought she meant less than as in lesser being, not as in he liked her less, but yeah, with new context, he was wrong for his treatment of her.
12) Then what were his reasons?
13) Not uncommon, but still his choice if she’s earned it.
14) But Dayton has said she wants to turn him into an obedient pet, that’s changing him from who he is.
15.1) Perhaps if the #1 guardian hadn’t blatantly ignored his previous requests for help including another time Dayton had lied about his actions, he’d have trusted her to intervene this time, “Actions have consequences” doesn’t just apply to the Littles’ actions. Sara did stop Jordan seeing Dayton, but then pressured him into seeing her again that Christmas.
15.2) In my head she can’t afford a second Little, the first is already a hefty financial burden for future Dayton. And if he does sit around being miserable that’s his punishment for being a bully too.
17) but he is the one she fantasised about owning, well, him and Jordan
18) I don’t want that to be true, if I’m gonna be completely honest, I do like redemption arcs, but off screen development isn’t gonna do the trick
19) She’d be the type of person to use slurs like underbred, and get pissy when corrected.
20) and all in front of Rhys
22) Wasn’t Chloe the one who told her no.
23) Lol
24) It is.
25) I never said he was perfect, He was putting his political opinions in his lessons, and playing favourites with his students, but that’s most teachers, it’s wrong but not fair to only punish Mr Rhys. I get that is sucks to have a teacher dislike you, I had a few teachers like that in my time, and even though complaints were filed nothing happened to them.
If he acknowledged her achievement, it would validate her desire to be seen as above him, which would have cost him a lot of respect not just form her but other students as well, obviously denying it he lost way more, but he couldn’t have known that.
He was breaking the law but had been assured everything was perfectly legal, the district deserved what happened to them, he’s a victim of the district’s lies. Had he known of the questionable legality he may have behaved differently
26) He didn’t choose to ignore it, he was lied to about it and got cocky.
27) I meant more the indifference, the “tough shit I’m getting what I want” way she answered his question, as opposed to the mock sympathy she showed him earlier in the episode
28) I meant not her place to say if he is or isn’t ready to hear it, that one’s on me for poor communication
29) That is true, just like many guardians weaponise freedom and privileges, Genritech could be seen as doing the same thing on a larger scale, PR Freindly slavery is an interesting term.
30) That would be a pretty dark story, but it’s not like suicide hasn’t been brought up in this world before, all be it in a recovery context.
Thanks Lethal! Sometimes I feel like I’m slowly becoming like Jordan and starting to accept what Guardianship entails. You keep me focused. You always seem to recall details that I have forgotten and I remember just how messed up some of these characters are (or are not).
I like to think of it as people start fall into the governments line of thinking within the universe and then lethal comes in with the otherside points to keep things honest.