@ENJAY
You are right, that that is how it is presented in most other situations, but it's different this time. Most of those other situations the person is either 1. Out of the danger that their parents are trying to train them for or 2. Are benefiting from the skills they gained from that torture enough to control the situation (i.e. justifying the training). In the case of the former the "training" was waste and thus was pointless torture, but this only becomes apparent after the danger is found to be no longer relevant, in the case of the latter, the character has reaped the benefits from the training, but the Main Character, having lived a normal life points out the absurdity of the strange life of the character, usually to show them a different way. Neither of these apply here, because we're not post training, we are mid-training in this story, we are in the perspective of the father trying to protect his son through the only methods he is aware will train the son for the problems he will face.
Well if he dies obviously the training failed. They're not trying to kill him, but prepare him. The Father was going to cut the training short due to his son being overwhelmed so it's not like his Father doesn't care about him either and wants him dead. The goal of this particular training is to help him survive poisoning attempts, how would you propose the son be prepared for this? Ideally, he never even has to imagine having this problem, so what method do you propose to solve this problem?
You are right, her goals are not stupid, but her methods certainly are. She has no awareness of "why" Ain is undergoing this training, only her perspective as a modern person who lived a moderately comfy life free from bloodshed. Ain does not get to grow up in that world, the Duke's family is already steeped in shady business, and, like it or not, in these situations the sins of the father follow the child. Some may even attempt to kill the son in order to get back at his Father. If she actually wanted to achieve her goal, she needs to remove Ain's completely from the situation entirely, not just stop the training, she needs to leave the property and go into hiding. Ain's is innocent of what his father has done, but he will be responsible for handling some of the fall out, whether he wants to or not. If the only thing she does is educate him differently, but still become the head of the house of a criminal family, he will have issues.
You are right, that that is how it is presented in most other situations, but it's different this time. Most of those other situations the person is either 1. Out of the danger that their parents are trying to train them for or 2. Are benefiting from the skills they gained from that torture enough to control the situation (i.e. justifying the training). In the case of the former the "training" was waste and thus was pointless torture, but this only becomes apparent after the danger is found to be no longer relevant, in the case of the latter, the character has reaped the benefits from the training, but the Main Character, having lived a normal life points out the absurdity of the strange life of the character, usually to show them a different way. Neither of these apply here, because we're not post training, we are mid-training in this story, we are in the perspective of the father trying to protect his son through the only methods he is aware will train the son for the problems he will face.
Well if he dies obviously the training failed. They're not trying to kill him, but prepare him. The Father was going to cut the training short due to his son being overwhelmed so it's not like his Father doesn't care about him either and wants him dead. The goal of this particular training is to help him survive poisoning attempts, how would you propose the son be prepared for this? Ideally, he never even has to imagine having this problem, so what method do you propose to solve this problem?
You are right, her goals are not stupid, but her methods certainly are. She has no awareness of "why" Ain is undergoing this training, only her perspective as a modern person who lived a moderately comfy life free from bloodshed. Ain does not get to grow up in that world, the Duke's family is already steeped in shady business, and, like it or not, in these situations the sins of the father follow the child. Some may even attempt to kill the son in order to get back at his Father. If she actually wanted to achieve her goal, she needs to remove Ain's completely from the situation entirely, not just stop the training, she needs to leave the property and go into hiding. Ain's is innocent of what his father has done, but he will be responsible for handling some of the fall out, whether he wants to or not. If the only thing she does is educate him differently, but still become the head of the house of a criminal family, he will have issues.
Him being evil wouldn't justify the training, and I've not seen anyone claim the child is evil, and, even if they had, it's not what's important. What's important is we've seen Ain's thought process as the audience. Ain's is not an innocent child, he is, canonically, a calculating one. He is making decisions, and, even in the chapter before, personally chosen to take poison for his training. You could argue that it was the training that made him this way, and that's quite possible, in fact I believe that is probably the situation. But being evil or good is irrelevant here, he canonically has adults scared of him and canonically is making decisions, he has awareness as an individual. Don't compare Ain to a child IRL, he's, for the purposes of this story, different.
R Yes, but only for some poisons and not others.
