Irene: *deep sigh* Well Boyd and Leliel's team has already commented about this to death, so let's just be glad my third incarnation, Sana, who married Niles didn't spork this with her husband. We'd never hear the end of it.

Subaki: I keep imagining how easy it would be to tip over. It's about as strategically sound as the "lion ladder" argument the billion of lions fans use as a counter against Pokémon.

Indeed. That needed to be a meme for how...silly it is.

Yoona: Following that logic, Nohr's buildings should have all collapsed due to the sealing, which is necessary for buildings to hold together, not being able to dry out without a sun, which also would expose them to frost! This is just another can of worms opened regarding the sunlessness! Subaki isn't far off about the tipping over comment...

Yet more reason PLOT HOLE SUN needed to be a count earlier...

Kaze: Unfortunately, given the length of the fanfiction, I had already deduced contrivance would make my counterpart's attempt of shortening the story a failed endeavour. Taeyeon had the foresight to at least let me settle with this. *throws shuriken into a Garon portrait and nails it dead centre in his face*

Yoona: Teen DDI is really just writing like the old kid treehouse saying "No Girls Allowed" except here it's "No Hoshidans Allowed."

In hindsight, given how Teen DDI was trying to write Evil Being Cool...it doesn't make it better, but I'm so glad he didn't actually think the prejudice was a good thing.

Irene: Well said my other half. That's also Nohr's redeeming trait, that anyone with a decent skill of fighting and an honourable spirit is a worthy option. The whole Conquest route is about us quietly rebelling again Garon, not being their execution dogs like we're Hans!

Seriously. Once again, Teen DDI simply didn't realize there was a great plot he could have had in the supports

Subaki: This... this just hurt my brain to read. What an utter lack of regard for life. For that matter, I guess trying to extort information is for spineless cowards, even if they were going to executed after giving information anyway.

Kaze: Also note she doesn't care that we're just Hoshidans trying to do our duty to our kingdom, only about being unarmed. Apparently, our crime is equal to that of rapists and murderers. How compassionate and egalitarian.

Again, the realization DDI genuinely realized Nohr was bad guys he respected is such, such a relief...

Yoona: Father dearest has clearly never heard of the trope Don't Create A Martyr. Killing a brave soldier on the line of duty, especially as his last stand is trying to take down the warmongering king, is a great way to give the people an inspirational figure to rally behind. They're not going to fear death because the martyr figure is behind them!

Irene: Besides, you know how conquerers get successful with conquests? Treating their conquered well to show that surrender is better for them than resistance. Killing them with kindness, however backhanded, yields better results. If they know they're going to die anyway, well, as Leliel's team has said in the future, that just suggests to them that they as well remain defiant to the end and go down fighting.

Benny: Also, I suppose Garon has never heard of every self-fulfilling prophecy in which an evil ruler razes the chosen one's town to prevent his downfall. There's always people who get away, who survive. Just ask Aang, Po, Jesus or Moses,

And you know? In a better fic, this could go places! It's just, well, it got lost up its ass before it even started.