#and duane had his little band of charming child soldiers. fun stuff

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my vain hope for unsounded is by the end duane or really anyone has a long overdue epiphany that they shouldn’t have any allegiance to their country’s governing bodies. also that the military is fuckin evil 

#the political scheming and dramatic irony of this story stress me out so much. it's infuriating #in which everyone is morally dubious and has committed at least one thing irreedeemable #duane is a tragic dad figure but he's also an asshole #who says things like In my country lying harlots have their tongues cut with the same blades used to neuter dogs #I think he's at the cusp of learning. it was at the 'you have always been a fine judge of character' moment. #technically quigley is already at this point but he. yknow. he is how he is #we know in at least alderode's army rape is a commonly accepted practice. so there's that #and duane had his little band of charming child soldiers. fun stuff #I'm already fed up with lem and he just showed up. he can take his sad crying-in-his-brother's-arms flashbacks and shove it #I know a big central theme of this story is that everyone has their own motivations #and thinks that they're in the right when they are from the outside so clearly undeniably wrong #people will profess a moral code in one breath and slaughter innocents the next. so much prejudice so much brutality #hypocrites everybody #sorry I read all of it in a week #and I only understand maybe sixty percent of it #unsounded