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So, catching up to GoT - not caught up yet - and I am reminded that the league of shadows GoT edition has the most terrible training program
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It's like
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"Okay, you're the intern"
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"A few months (maybe!) pass, and you're playing along, so here- a totally impossible and unreasonable test for you"
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"You failed, because you haven
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't even begun to purge your identity yet? MASSIVE PUNISHMENT!!"
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"Let's beat you up as a beggar for a little bit until you feel like no one."
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"Here's a few weeks to a few months more of training and zero mental conditioning of any real effect"
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"NOW FOR A HARDER TEST"
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"BTW YOU ONLY GET TO FAIL ONCE SO LOL"
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that isn't how you run an assassins guild
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You know she's the daughter of a lord and mostly talk, you know she's got all this honor and serious personal vendetta and motivation behind her actions
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You know she's like 12-13, not a malleable child at this point
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Why would you first give her a mission that's "Do this kill, by the way someone you personally want to kill is there and we will give you zero supervision or guidance"
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and then "I know you have moral issues about this but we need you to kill this person for someone who's morally bankrupt. Be a good girl and do it!"
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At least lead her in with "These are bad people" quests first??
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Keep her away from her personal feelings until you know she's ready?
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This is BASIC stuff
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No organization would do this
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I don't even think original Jaqen would do it
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it's totally counter productive and just loses you people who have great potential
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Like, come on. You know she didn't grow up believing in the death god you do. Telling her that it wants something doesn't mean anything next to Stark HONOR
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Instead, bring her along, make her observe instead. Then have her help do one, then have her do one with help
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keep her the heckle away from "This is a good person who a bad person hired us to kill" and "That's a person from your list btw"
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ONE DAY
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ONE DAY she'll be indoctrinated enough to go send her after Jon Snow (like the theorists want) and she'll be genuinely torn between the two halves of her
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but it's not freaking six months after she shows up