[OOC][PLOT] The Fourth Thread of Planning for Arc 1 - Arrivals

[robkelk]

I'm thinking that "what are we going to do with these girls, and what do we do about their handlers" isn't a solution we can reach in a single story.

If we don't get everybody, all at once, then they're just going to hole up and very carefully find some more girls who won't be missed to turn into more brainwashed combat cyborgs. And they're too smart to be taken all at once. Sure, we could rescue Henrietta or Rico or Claes or Angelica or Triela, but that doesn't help the next homeless or orphaned or severely-crippled girl.

And the girls have been sufficiently brainwashed that they don't want to be rescued. In fact, they'd see any attempt as a kidnapping and fight against it... and they are superhuman combat cyborgs. EDIT: And we only need to look what happened to Claes in canon to see what happens to the girls when they're separated from their handlers.

My thought was they'd be an ongoing issue that nobody knows how to deal with, and (almost) nobody wants to simply kill to stop.