Talk:Mistle/@comment-2601:404:CE00:9F90:7C48:89AD:3819:3B8B-20190906033037

I do think that Mistle was probably a very psychologically fucked-up person, like the rest of the Rats, but there’s a lot of nasty little paramilitary gangs of violent, traumatized stray teens running around war zones irl. They’ve probably existed as long as large-scale war has, but documentation exists at least back to the Napoleonic Wars. And they often “haze the new people in” by raping them, or have new members become sex servants to an older “mentor”, too (hell, the “mentor” is often the one who rescues the newbie from worse abuse, thus “adopting” them). This is sadly not untypical and the guy who wrote this could easily have pulled the whole scenario straight out of anywhere from the Eastern Fromt of WW2 to the modern DRC and not changed a thing, but I still fucken hate the Rats. One can pity and hate at the same time.