[Fic] "Children's Crusade" -- Naruto
Aug. 25th, 2009 01:57 amThis week's
15_minute_fic word is not actually up; one from a few weeks ago seems to have been copy-pasted in by mistake. So I went back a few months and found a word I'd skipped.
I ended up with a characterless bit of world-building for Naruto, along the lines of Traps -- in other words, morbid thoughts about the social and legal construction of childhood in a culture where children are often raised to be assassins and front-line soldiers. It's also a strict form double drabble, for the hell of it.
( Children's Crusade )
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...Clearly the whole 'training children to be killers' aspect of Naruto bothers me on a deep level, since I keep turning back to it directly or indirectly. I wish Kishimoto would address that more in canon.
I ended up with a characterless bit of world-building for Naruto, along the lines of Traps -- in other words, morbid thoughts about the social and legal construction of childhood in a culture where children are often raised to be assassins and front-line soldiers. It's also a strict form double drabble, for the hell of it.
( Children's Crusade )
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...Clearly the whole 'training children to be killers' aspect of Naruto bothers me on a deep level, since I keep turning back to it directly or indirectly. I wish Kishimoto would address that more in canon.