Ezra ate the pellets. He hated how he could feel himself getting full. How his grumbling stomach eased. How maybe Dayton was right. The more he ate the more it felt like he had more energy. He wasn’t as sluggish as he normally felt. Each time he ate a pellet, he could feel his stomach swell just a little bit more. He didn’t realize how malnourished he was until he was eating straight pellets. That mashing pellets into food is a fine supplement but you sitll need to eat just straight pellets or the expensive pellet-based food. (Pellet based food is similar to what chloe served littles at the party in smallara prime)
He searched his mind for some logic. Some other possible reason he could possibly be getting full. How he could feel like he had more energy. That he was more cognitively aware. He wanted it to not be the pellets. He wasn’t to proud to admit when he was wrong but he didn’t want Dayton to be right. Not in this moment. Not at this time. Not the girl who had him relegated to nothing more than her pet by the SEA.
The more pellets he ate he could feel his mouth drying out though. Looking at the second dish it was a basin more or less. It was quite large to drink from though. He wasn’t even sure if he could lift it up. Water had a way of being deceptively heavier than it should.
“You’re supposed to kneel in front of it, Ezra,” Hannah said sweetly, like she was answering a question in class. Her tone didn’t carry cruelty, just calm correction, like this was normal now. Like he was normal now.
Ezra looked over at her, not confused, not angry, just tired. It was so illogical.
“Could I just get a tiny glass?” he asked, his voice soft and raw. “If you don’t have one, there was one in the habitat the district provided. I’m sure I could get it.”
His voice, stripped of amplification, no longer carried force. No speaker, no projection, just the fragile pitch of a Little’s vocal cords. Whatever authority he once had was gone. He could only ask. And wait.
Dayton gave a pointed look at the small blue bowl beside his meal. Her tone, when it came, was flat, practiced, measured in the way pet owners used with animals.
“You’re not using a cup, Ezra. Not anymore,” she said, her voice calm but absolute. “I know it seems simple, but it’s not made for you. Your swallow reflex isn’t the same anymore, it’s shallower, and your throat structures different. Cups make you gulp. Gulping makes you choke. I have a special cup Thomas brought me from the little city that has little specific drinking mechanism. But thats for Kinsley’s Birthday.”
“Oh the little sippy cup. Its super cute.” Nicole said. “Are you really giving her that for her birthday?”
“Of course. I would never lie or joke about that. They aren’t a retail thing i guess due to government restrictions, but Generitech has them for sale in the little cities.” Dayton said as She nudged the bowl gently, the rubber grip squeaking faintly against the tabletop. The sound felt surgical.
“This?” she said. “It’s designed for you. It slows you down. Lets your body actually absorb the water instead of forcing it past your throat. And lifting a cup? That’s a spill risk. A bowl’s safer, stable, ground-based, no lifting required. So away from home you will use the bowl.”
She leaned back slightly, brushing a strand of hair from her face with her free hand, like the discussion was now closed.
“It’s not about looking dignified. It’s about staying healthy. And hydrated. So, this is how you drink now. This is part of your new routine. Structure matters. This isn’t punishment, Ezra. It’s habit training. Littles drink from bowls.”
Ezra stared at the bowl for a long moment. Then he looked up at her.
“Please,” he said softly. “I’ve tried to cooperate, but this, it’s humiliating.”
Dayton’s eyes didn’t waver. She lifted her hand from the table and folded her arms.
“I’m not trying to embarrass you, but we aren’t going to the SEA to ask about a cup from the illegal operation the district was running. I’d rather not deal with the SEA again. We’ll see what Little Mart has to offer. Maybe they have little water bottles or something that you can carry around. As you aren’t bringing your little cup outside the house. But for now you’ll
“You’ll eat like a Little,” Dayton said, voice low and flat in that trained way she’d been slipping into all day. “You’ll drink like a Little. You’ll live like a Little, because that’s what you are now.”
Ezra’s jaw tightened.
Dayton didn’t flinch. “The days of pretending otherwise are over. I’ll get you whatever Little products I can to make this easier,” she added, matter-of-fact. “But it takes time. And when you meet my mom… you’ll understand why I don’t do half-measures.”
She pointed at the shallow water dish with one finger, like she was indicating a line in a handbook.
“Now drink.”
Ezra stared at the bowl.
It was surreal how quickly a life could collapse into a single ridiculous object. He’d read Tolstoy. He’d taught Orwell. He’d written letters of recommendation that changed kids’ futures. And now a thirteen-year-old who still had to negotiate with her parents for Chick-fil-A was deciding whether he drank from a cup.
His mind snapped at it, searching for someone to blame.
Her generation didn’t plan. They didn’t think ahead. If she’d known she was going to claim him, why wasn’t there a cup ready? Something dignified. Something human.
Then reality, cruel and simple, answered: because nothing was going to manifest out of thin air. And because the school didn’t hand out “dignified.”
The school handed out Little bowls.
He could already see them at the supply station, the exact same navy plastic, rubber-bottomed, designed to be stable on lunch tables and classroom desks. Standard issue.
Standard species.
He felt his stomach twist.
He inched toward the bowl anyway, not because he wanted to, but because thirst didn’t care about philosophy. As he moved, his eyes flicked up toward Hayden and Nicole, instinctive, hopeful. Someone would jump in. Someone would push back. Nicole had a sister who was a Little, didn’t she?
And that thought, the thought that there might be a different normal he simply hadn’t bothered to learn, made his cheeks burn.
He’d never looked. Not really. Not when Littles were an abstract policy and a training video and a “societal adjustment.”
Now he had to live inside it.
“Nicole,” Ezra said, voice strained but careful, “you told me your sister is a Little. Does she… not drink from glasses? Do you really have your sister drink from a bowl at the table every night?”
Nicole didn’t react the way he expected.
She didn’t get embarrassed. She didn’t look away. She didn’t scramble to soften it for him.
She kept chewing, slow and deliberate, like the question hadn’t knocked her off balance at all. Only her eyes narrowed a fraction when she looked at him.
“I’m not gonna pretend it’s the same,” Nicole said evenly. “She’s my sister. She’s family. She’s been with us since forever. It is different.”
She set her juice box down with a soft clack and leaned forward, elbows on the table, voice steady in a way that came from practice, not theory.
“But yeah,” she said. “She drinks from a bowl.”
Ezra blinked.
“We tried a tiny cup when she first came home,” Nicole continued. “She choked. Twice. Like, actual scary choking. After that my mom was done risking it.”
Hannah’s expression softened at the memory in Nicole’s voice. Hayden went still, her usual grin fading as she listened.
Nicole’s gaze flicked briefly to Dayton, then back to Ezra. Not asking permission. Just acknowledging that Dayton wasn’t making this up.
“Sometimes we give her little straws at home,” Nicole added. “Like, homemade ones. But at meals? Bowl. Every time. And no, we don’t bring ‘tiny cups’ out in public.” She huffed a short laugh, humorless. “They’re expensive, they break, and you lose them. You want to watch a cafeteria stampede turn into a scavenger hunt for a cup that costs more than someone’s sneakers? Hard pass.”
Her voice didn’t rise, but the steel was there now, the kind that didn’t come from Guardian training or government pamphlets.
“This isn’t about dignity,” Nicole said. “It’s about safety. You think it’s humiliating? Fine. But my sister’s alive because we stopped trying to force ‘normal’ onto a body that isn’t built for it.”
She paused, then added, quieter but sharper, “And she’s not complaining.”
Ezra swallowed hard.
Nicole wasn’t done. She tilted her head slightly, like she was considering whether to say the next part, then decided he needed it.
“There are a lot of unfair things Kinsley has to deal with as a Little,” Nicole said, voice steady. “Real things. Stuff that actually matters. Stuff we’ve worked through together. A bowl isn’t even… on the list.”
Ezra’s face tightened. Not because she was cruel.
Because she was honest.
He looked down at the water dish. The surface still rippled faintly from earlier, tiny waves catching cafeteria light like a mockery of a lake.
His throat went tight, not from pride exactly, but from that awful, creeping suspicion that she was right, and that his resistance was just… him trying to keep one last scrap of the old world.
He didn’t speak.
Dayton didn’t gloat. That was almost the worst part. No victory lap. No smirk.
She just leaned in slightly, voice softer, but still unmistakably firm.
“You asked,” Dayton said. “And Nicole gave you the truth. Maybe that’s what you need more of.”
She tapped the rim of the bowl once with her fingernail.
A small, sharp click.
“Now drink, Ezra.”
Ezra looked up slowly.
Dayton’s eyes were steady. Not unkind. Not pitying.
Just certain.
And somehow that certainty was harder to fight than cruelty would’ve been.
He looked again at Nicole, who had already gone back to eating her sandwich like nothing happened.
He bowed his head. Then, slowly, deliberately, he shifted to his knees, hands bracing on either side of the bowl. He lowered his head and took a sip, the water cool and quiet in his mouth.
No one laughed.
No one mocked.
The silence was more final than either would’ve expected.
“Your swallow reflex isn’t the same anymore, it’s shallower, and your throat structures different.”
good to know. we hadn’t really been told why they drink from bowls as far as i’m aware. it’s still humiliating, and i’m guessing the government not approving of those little glasses is by design. help reinforce their legislature and the image they’re creating
Ezra seems pretty pragmatic. hard truths are probably better for him and less humiliating than trying to be delicate about it. The nice thing with Dayton in this regard is that she’s being clinical. Not a lot of guardians are like that. She isn’t matter-of-factly or tauntingly explaining things, it’s really detached, which i think is the easier way of doing it. the tone’s that get used make it seem like, at least to me, there’s more that they hide from their little just because they don’t want to explain it. Dayton isn’t doing that, to me at least, so if i were in ezra’s position, i’d be more inclined to accept it.
Agreed Ezra would rather know the hard truths than have his feelings protected.
Dayton has been upfront for the most part. She didnt immediately mention his name
Changing from Rhys to Harris but it also hadn’t come up yet. So where they were at in the school day it’s understandable.
yeah, it’s probably the biggest display of her newer maturity. i’m sure the shock of the SEA is still in both her and Ezra so that has something to do with the tone, but either way she’s being a lot better than i’d have expected.
what’s kind of funny is that she and sara are having a sorta similar experience in the sense they’re starting with littles they didn’t necessarily want but claimed anyway. she’s being less whimsical than Sara had been but i think it’s working out better, or is going to at least.
I can see where Nicole is coming from since she and her family had Kinsley almost die on them twice. Yet I feel for Ezra too losing the life he built and becoming the pet of one of your students sucks but at the same time you have to protect people from themselves and that means for littles to have a guardian.
However I do hope that both Ezra and Dayton can come out of this situation in a better place.
Dayton is thriving. Ezra not so much right now.’it would be hard to be your students little.
Guardians living better well while their Littles suffer is pretty normal in this world
That’s true in real life as well.
The halves always are better off than the have nots
0) This public school cafeteria seems fancier that Sara’s private schol one, lol.
1) “He wasn’t too proud to admit when he was wrong, but he didn’t want Dayton to be right.” Valid
2) “Could I just get a tiny glass? If you don’t have one, there was one in the habitat the district provided. I’m sure I could get it.” I’m sure Dayton’s got (or will get) all his stuff from the district, but she won’t be going out of her way to get it for him now.
3.1) “You’re not using a cup, Ezra. Not anymore. I know it seems simple, but it’s not made for you. Your swallow reflex isn’t the same anymore” Well, he’s used one without issue thus far/
3.2) “I have a special cup Thomas brought me from the little city that has little specific drinking mechanism. But that’s for Kinsley’s Birthday.” So she entirely could but is choosing not to provide him this basic dignity. Colour me not surprised.
4) “They aren’t a retail thing i guess due to government restrictions, but Generitech has them for sale in the little cities.” Why is the government restricting this?
5) “It’s designed for you. It slows you down. Lets your body actually absorb the water instead of forcing it past your throat” it also lowers him and makes him look more reminicnt of an animal drinking, which I’m sure is a coincidence
6.1) “I’m not trying to embarrass you” I’m sure that’s just a fun bonus for her.
6.2) “we aren’t going to the SEA to ask about a cup from the illegal operation the district was running. I’d rather not deal with the SEA again” Why not? Thus far SEA has made your dreams come true.
7) “You’ll eat like a Little,You’ll drink like a Little. You’ll live like a Little, because that’s what you are now.” He was eating and drinking like a Little, perhaps not her vision of Littles, but his own.
8) “Her generation didn’t plan. They didn’t think ahead. If she’d known she was going to claim him, why wasn’t there a cup ready? Something dignified. Something human.” He shouldn’t stereotype. Dayton absolutely planned for this; she wasn’t told the exact date, so not everything is on her, but she’s absolutely prepared for his arrival at her home.
9) “Nicole had a sister who was a Little, didn’t she?” Nicole does treat her Little better than this, but I have a feeling she doesn’t think Ezra deserves better than this.
10) “I’m not gonna pretend it’s the same. She’s my sister. She’s family. She’s been with us since forever. It is different.” One rule for she, another for he, very typical of girls
theirall ages.11) “But yeah, she drinks from a bowl. We tried a tiny cup when she first came home. She choked. Twice. Like, actual scary choking. After that, my mom was done risking it.” Oh, never mind lol, she’ll Kinsley will water for the Little cup Dayton;s got her for her and Nicole’s birthday.
12) “we don’t bring ‘tiny cups’ out in public, They’re expensive, they break, and you lose them. You want to watch a cafeteria stampede turn into a scavenger hunt for a cup that costs more than someone’s sneakers? Hard pass.” I feel like a LEGO cup would be sized appropriately for a Little like Ezra, (maybe too small for Kinsley, but other LEGO pieces could substitute), and they’d only be a couple of cents each.
12) “And she’s not complaining.” Maybe not now, not since she’d been forced to live like that for a year, I’m sure she’s given up on all complaints.
13) “There are a lot of unfair things Kinsley has to deal with as a Little, Real things. Stuff that actually matters. Stuff we’ve worked through together. A bowl isn’t even… on the list.” Ezra’s gonna get his own list soon enough, as a male Little, it’ll probably be longer, and as a Little claimed for revenge, that’ll add to it, but either way, it’s not Nicole’s place to say if things he finds unfair are “real” or not.
14) “His throat went tight, not from pride exactly, but from that awful, creeping suspicion that she was right, and that his resistance was just… him trying to keep one last scrap of the old world” Wanting to hold onto the remnants of his old life is fair
15) “You asked, and Nicole gave you the truth. Maybe that’s what you need more of.” Ezra’s certainly been hurt by the lies humans have told him post-infection, lies told under the guise of ‘protection’. These truths aren’t much more fun for him though, and it’s obvious there’s still information being deliberately kept from him by the girls though.
4) ruins the image they’re trying to present to the public. probably why the SEA made absolutely sure no one was recording in the class room. it wouldn’t look good if the fact that a little was able to articulate ideas well enough to teach kids (radical teachings or otherwise) was made known to the public. it’d raise more questions about why they’re classified as animals if they can think and reason in the same manner a normal human can
3) I agree, he has used one up to this point. Looks like today’s episode is introducing new canon about Littles. I looked through past stories and when bowls came into play, there were no explanations other that that is how pets drink.
4) Probably Cindy Wessen’s doing.
7) Other than his realization that he was probably malnourished, I agree, he was eating just fine before.
8) Sounds like cups are hard to come by (according to Dayton), but Ezra claims to have had one.
12) yeah, the logic here is a bit thin. Small cups or something that works as one should be easy to get.
14) Thirsty or not, I’m surprised he didn’t decide to forgo drinking from the bowl. I doubt Dayton would have relented, but I think Ezra would have tried to refuse.
3) he’s proven he won’t choke in my opinion.
4) blaming Cindy is something I can always support.
7) if I were a little, I’d probably prefer malnourished food I chose over healthy food forced on me.
8) they are canonically expensive, though we know of a few littles who have them, Liam and Noah for instance.
12) it could be improvised I agree.
13) true, if I were in his situation, I’d probably go on a hunger strike until preferred food is made available, the question is could I outlast Dayton’s will.
5) I don’t get it, he drinks from both a glass and a bowl. What’s the difference? When I was a kid, I’d lie on the ice and drink water from an ice hole in the river in winter, and I’d drink it just as fast as I would from a cup. But even so, no one stops him from kneeling down, scooping up water in his cupped hands, and drinking from them, without having to lap it up like an animal.
It allows your body to actually absorb water rather than pushing it through your throat. – What do you mean by that? Don’t babies absorb water from their stomachs and gastrointestinal tract? Does it actually get absorbed in their throats?
I think it’s more the positioning and posture than anything. It does look demeaning, and given how it seems more of a government mandate, it’s meant to be so by design. otherwise why deny the special cups for littles at the government level? unless theres more to it than Dayton said, like Generitech has a valid reason to support the governments decision. Given what we’ve seen though, i wouldn’t put it past this government to have dumb rules to enforce their opinions on littles and homo parvus put in place to keep them in a lower class of being without being questioned
as for how it all works, Asuka would need to supply more context, but it sounds like Littles don’t just absorb nutrients from food in a different process, but they also hydrate in a different manner as well
Don’t forget that Littles are physically changed. They absorb air through their skin as well as lungs, plus many other changes (It was described in the Charity story, I believe). Looks like in this episode, Asuka is establishing some previously unknown facts about Little physiology.
I try to bring out new little facts in each season.
You are correct charity established supplemental breathing through the skin.
1) The flow rate is huge relative to their airway
Dayton can tip a glass and gauge the stream with lips, tongue, and a big, forgiving throat. Littles have the same basic anatomy, just scaled down, and that’s the problem:
A little’s windpipe opening is tiny.
Their safe swallow window is much shorter.
A brief ill timed inhale turns into aspiration (water pulled into the airway), which triggers choking and can lead to fluid in the lungs.
Even a thin ribbon of water from a tilted glass hits their mouth like a sheet, not a sip.
We have seen this depicted in the risk that rain poses to littles. Why sara tucked Jordan into her pocket/bag even though he didnt like it. Water is required for survival but also a risk to littles.
2) Surface tension makes water behave like a clingy monster
At small scale, surface tension matters more than gravity. Water likes to stick to itself and to surfaces. So instead of a neat little stream:
Water can bridge across their lips and nose, forming a partial seal.
It can “glue” to their face and flood faster than they can clear it.
If their mouth is pressed to the rim, a little tilt can suddenly create a continuous film of water.
Humans deal with droplets. Littles deal with water membranes.
This is the other risk when it rains. it snot jus tbeing knocked unconscious but the water can coat them and suffocate especially if they are unsconscious from the force repeated drops.
We see similar issues with drinking water.
3) Momentum doesn’t scale the way their body needs
If you pour a glass for dayton, the water’s momentum is trivial to manage. For a Little, that momentum is enough to:
Overrun the tongue’s ability to channel it,
Force water past the epiglottis (the flap that protects the airway),
Trigger a cough reflex that they cannot “power through” because their lungs are smaller and fatigue faster.
4) Hydrostatic pressure spikes
If a Little tries to drink like a person, they often have to get close to the rim and angle their head back. That increases the chance that water runs straight to the throat with more head pressure than their swallow reflex can comfortably regulate.
Why lapping works better
Lapping is basically a built-in micro-dosing pump.
1) Tiny amounts per cycle
The tongue flicks the surface and pulls up a small, controlled volume each time. That means:
The Little can swallow between laps,
Breathing stays coordinated,
The risk of aspiration drops hard.
2) Water is “captured” as droplets, not delivered as a sheet
Lapping breaks water into small packets (droplets/boluses). Surface tension helps here: it forms stable little beads that the tongue can manage.
3) It spreads across more mouth surface first
Instead of a rush to the back of the throat, lapped water:
Coats the tongue and inner cheeks,
Gives the nervous system time to trigger a safe swallow,
Reduces the “surprise flood” effect.
When i originally outlined the mechanic back in 2020. This was the reasoning. I will admit i did use AI to help science me through things in addition to my wife’s biology text book at that time.
But the goal was to create actual biological risk and reason for the practice. As while it can be viewed as humiliating I didnt want the practice to be just because its humiliating. I wanted it be for a reason and it sucks. But its reality for them.
Love lore dumps lol need to add this to my Ai scours
Ha Ha “it sucks” what a pun. 😝
His issue is that it’s not what he wants to do, just because you’d be okay with it doesn’t mean he will.
I think they would stop him cupping his hands, that’d make more of a mess.
Littles can absorb some water through their mutated skin, better than a baby could
I didn’t mean that I drank while lying down, but that I still drank in gulps and quickly.
I wonder how they would have stopped him? Take away the water? I don’t think so. Besides, I think it’s safe; the palms are small, he won’t choke, and it doesn’t create a stream.
By the way, despite all this talk, he can drink from a small cup at home. But not during meals. What’s the difference? Do pellets make him thirsty, and do little ones drink more greedily?
They could stop him bu hold6his arms behind his back, or just punishing him latter.
Pellets are extremely dry, so yeah, they’d make him thirsty.
And again, the question arises: why not make tall water bowls? Like drinking fountains, so Baby can drink standing up rather than kneeling.
I just didnt want too is the real reason. I wanted to canonically depict them how they are depicted so i created lore to support the vision i had.
So they can quote literally keep Littles down, lol.
0) This public school cafeteria seems fancier that Sara’s private schol one, lol.
1) “He wasn’t too proud to admit when he was wrong, but he didn’t want Dayton to be right.” Valid
2) “Could I just get a tiny glass? If you don’t have one, there was one in the habitat the district provided. I’m sure I could get it.” I’m sure Dayton’s got (or will get) all his stuff from the district, but she won’t be going out of her way to get it for him now.
3.1) “You’re not using a cup, Ezra. Not anymore. I know it seems simple, but it’s not made for you. Your swallow reflex isn’t the same anymore” Well, he’s used one without issue thus far/
3.2) “I have a special cup Thomas brought me from the little city that has little specific drinking mechanism. But that’s for Kinsley’s Birthday.” So she entirely could but is choosing not to provide him this basic dignity. Colour me not surprised.
4) “They aren’t a retail thing i guess due to government restrictions, but Generitech has them for sale in the little cities.” Why is the government restricting this?
5) “It’s designed for you. It slows you down. Lets your body actually absorb the water instead of forcing it past your throat” it also lowers him and makes him look more reminicnt of an animal drinking, which I’m sure is a coincidence
6.1) “I’m not trying to embarrass you” I’m sure that’s just a fun bonus for her.
6.2) “we aren’t going to the SEA to ask about a cup from the illegal operation the district was running. I’d rather not deal with the SEA again” Why not? Thus far SEA has made your dreams come true.
7) “You’ll eat like a Little,You’ll drink like a Little. You’ll live like a Little, because that’s what you are now.” He was eating and drinking like a Little, perhaps not her vision of Littles, but his own.
8) “Her generation didn’t plan. They didn’t think ahead. If she’d known she was going to claim him, why wasn’t there a cup ready? Something dignified. Something human.” He shouldn’t stereotype. Dayton absolutely planned for this; she wasn’t told the exact date, so not everything is on her, but she’s absolutely prepared for his arrival at her home.
9) “Nicole had a sister who was a Little, didn’t she?” Nicole does treat her Little better than this, but I have a feeling she doesn’t think Ezra deserves better than this.
10) “I’m not gonna pretend it’s the same. She’s my sister. She’s family. She’s been with us since forever. It is different.” One rule for she, another for he, very typical of girls their all ages.
11) “But yeah, she drinks from a bowl. We tried a tiny cup when she first came home. She choked. Twice. Like, actual scary choking. After that, my mom was done risking it.” Oh, never mind lol, she’ll Kinsley will water for the Little cup Dayton;s got her for her and Nicole’s birthday.
12) “we don’t bring ‘tiny cups’ out in public, They’re expensive, they break, and you lose them. You want to watch a cafeteria stampede turn into a scavenger hunt for a cup that costs more than someone’s sneakers? Hard pass.” I feel like a LEGO cup would be sized appropriately for a Little like Ezra, (maybe too small for Kinsley, but other LEGO pieces could substitute), and they’d only be a couple of cents each.
12) “And she’s not complaining.” Maybe not now, not since she’d been forced to live like that for a year, I’m sure she’s given up on all complaints.
13) “There are a lot of unfair things Kinsley has to deal with as a Little, Real things. Stuff that actually matters. Stuff we’ve worked through together. A bowl isn’t even… on the list.” Ezra’s gonna get his own list soon enough, as a male Little, it’ll probably be longer, and as a Little claimed for revenge, that’ll add to it, but either way, it’s not Nicole’s place to say if things he finds unfair are “real” or not.
14) “His throat went tight, not from pride exactly, but from that awful, creeping suspicion that she was right, and that his resistance was just… him trying to keep one last scrap of the old world” Wanting to hold onto the remnants of his old life is fair
15) “You asked, and Nicole gave you the truth. Maybe that’s what you need more of.” Ezra’s certainly been hurt by the lies humans have told him post-infection, lies told under the guise of ‘protection’. These truths aren’t much more fun for him though, and it’s obvious there’s still information being deliberately kept from him by the girls though.
0) Well its servicing differnt groups. The food is better at Sara’s as they have actually cooks/chefs preparing meals as if you noticed tehy had plated meals basically at Sara’s school. Chloe had a steak in one episode. Where Dayton’s school has food court style restaraunts and then basic school food available. They are both nice but serving different quality for different types of people.
1) it really is one of the more valid things he had said. I wouldn’t want to admit to Dayton I was wrong and she was right either. At Least not about something like this.
2) Well realistically my actual thought process was the little glass was district property if they wanted him to have the glass it woudl have been on the tray with his actual belongings when the district cleaned out the home they had provided. So i can understand Dayton being reluctant to just go. Plus the SEA did storm her classroom with fully automatic weapons like its a drug raid. So not wanting to interact with basically people armed like they are going to war are expected. Everything the district and the SEA is planning on providing was on that tray at thsoe are his personal belongings.
3) Just because someone is used to something without issue doesnt mean its appropriate or there is not issues by doing it. A person can be used to driving without a seatbelt and never have an issue but it doesnt mean its the best thing to do or there isn’t issues by not doing it. Can a little drink from a glass and not choke and die. Sure they can. But its not the safest thing for them.
3.2) Well they are exclusively sold in the little cities by generitech. The one she obtained is meant for a specific person. So its not unreasonable to want to the cup she obtained for kinsley to go to kinsley for her birhtday. It’s not a life or death matter on him drinking from a cup. Most littles even in little cities still drink from the bowls as its most cost effective and normal at this point. The glasses are a luxury item even in the little cities.
4) They dont want little glassware in the supply chain they don’t want any agency or presentation that would give the idea that they are human, human like, or human adjacent.
5) Well the official stance has been pretty clear that littles are animals. So its more the governments treating littles as they are perceived. They are commodities not people. While we may think its wrong. Its how the governments of this world have classfied them.
6) Dayton doesnt actually care about embarssing him as she proved her point. Shes the guardian, he;s the little. He should have been collared, his situation was illegal. It was proven to be illegal. The illegality was corrected. She was awarded the little so she has one now. Embarassing him is not even a consideration as she won. She doesnt need to embarass him. Everyday is proof to him that she was right, and he was wrong. HE is in this situation because he didnt listen to her.
7) He was eating the privacy of his own district provided housing. He was eating and drinking. if it was done so appropriately is upto how you are viewing it. Was it upto th standards of the us government probably not. Was he eating and drinking in a way that would keep him alive? If he wasnt eating pellets he was eating but not healthy for his body style or species. So it really depends he hasnt been a little as long as jordan so the longterm of effects of improper eating wouldn’t have materialized. As it said in the beginning he was only gone a few weeks as they were wondering about subs or replacements. If he had kept his current methods into the new year there would ahve been a larger sample size to know the true reality. However the perspective I am writing it from as an author he was eating people food, and drinking from a glass. Any pellets he was eating was a very meager portion of pellet compared to people food. As he didnt want to lower himself to eating what he views as beneath him. So he would have ended up in a similar situation to jordan without Dayton stepping in and he could ahve just ended up dead as he woudlnt have had a guardian or anyone to intervene or reconize details.
8) Yup, fully agree. SHe is locked and loaded at home. She was clueless as to her getting him you are right. This is his own arrogance showing imho.
9) Ezra was mean to her and her friends. I think its kind of human nature. She doesnt want him harmed or anything cruel done. But she also doesnt have an issue with how he is being treated considering how he treated the people she cared about. Dayton herself isnt doing anything overtly mean. SHe is just being procedural and doing it by the book. Its not like she has done much to go out of her way to specifically humilate him. Any humiliation has been just from him percieving himself as a person and beforced into lower status.
10) Agreed. Kind of like the famous female line. Whats yours is mine and whats mine is mine.
11) Well the cup is daytons gift to kinsley. Nicole has a seperate gift from dayton. But Dayton did acquire it for a reason. Its not to say she wont get one for ezra. But it certianly wont be today. It would take time.
12) Legos aren’t cheap either. Plus you’d ahve to buy a whole lego set for hte cup. My wife builds legos and those sets are all 50 to 100+ Thats a pretty price plastic cup. But i do see understand your point. Something could be done. Dayton coudl acquire a 3d printer and make her own for instance as well.
12 Also) KInsley hasnt given up on complaints but she has realized what is a valid complaint and what is just life as a little which may be nice to change but isnt complaint worthy.
13) You are right but so far his list is rather petty and shallow. its not about the rights its I want to look dignified so I want a cup.
14) It is. Its understandable why he woudl want too even if Dayton is right.
15) I dont think they are deliberately keeping much from him. IF anything things may not have come up but they are also at school. There is a time place for some discussions that may not be the middle of roosevelt hallway or cafeteria
0) I figured Sara’s would be higher quality.
2) I see, so no cup. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/2639.svg
3.1) I say it’s his choice if he wants to risk it,
3.2) I’m not saying he needs specifically Kinsly’s cup, just a cup.
4) They are really insecure about this, lol
6) I doubt she wouldn’t be taking any enjoyment out of his shame, she loves the power too much.
7) At the end of the day, weather or not he eats healthy was his decision, He was doing the Little equivalent of Macca’s every meal, which I agree isn’t healthy, but ultimately was his choice.
9) Completely agree that Nicole has no reason to treat him the same, she has active reason not to.
11) I just meant that because Nicole and Kinsley ate twins so it’s both of their birthday
12.1) It wouldn’t need to be Lego specifically, just any toy that has cups, though many cheap Lego sets ($5-$20) contain cups, they are not a rare piece.
12,2) Picking her battles is wise, He’ll probably learn the same.
13) I’m sure his list will change and alter as he experiences more problems and reevaluates them, but ultimately it’s still his list, just because Nicole, Kinsley or Dayton don’t think something’s a big deal to them doesn’t mean it won’t be important to him.
15) That’s true, to their credit they’ve been honest, a little blunt and un empathetic about it, but honest.
a) interesting how he is a new little acting like a pouty child as the giant girls tell him how to simply drink water and why. He keeps showing why he has the pride and actions of a child that needs to be babysat lol.
Video of Dayton treating Prof Puff like the child little he is lol.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HTODZEehm_supncxSRHg2cB3HuYXY-Lp/view?usp=drivesdk
your getting good at this.
I wish sometime we could see the real action in the future when they start seeing little is less then human like her sister ? Will her family treat defiantly about this how know .
They are treated different through their Sister guardians I believe like Kelli is treated different by her sister Guardian Kayla who her parents leave Kelli’s daily choices to Kayla, Same I think between Nicole and Kinsley.