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First Lesson –
Rorschach watch as Terra gutted and butchered the pig. He decided to go slow and get her to become desensitized to the grim work that his road leads to. He had brutally shown her what's in store for her when he took down the sex slave ring. He left those who were still alive helpless in a gasoline doused house boat that they were using to ship their human cargo. The leader of the group was screaming that he's no different from her. He turns back to the boat with a fire bottle, calmly replies, 'Tell me something, I don't know', before he tosses the bottle lighting the boat in flames. Terra watched the scene and made no move to save the slavers.
He told her that it is easy to do good in times of prosperity or in a world like this, but it takes a true hero to be a good person when the entire world is screaming for you to be otherwise. He's friend Nite-Owl was one of those people, always trying to be the good guy even as the world around them was breaking down. But he isn't that kind of hero. He isn't to be like, isn't to be seen as a role model, he isn't here to make things better. He's just here to keep things from getting worse. The real heroes would be the ones who be the guiding light for young people to try to be like. While heroes like him the ones that no one likes just fade away. And that's the best ending for the kind of life he has to offer, for what he has to do so that people can sleep well at night not having to worry about the kind of people he deals with.
"How's this?" Terra ask having clean and gutted the pig leaving only the choice cuts.
"It will do. Now you know what it feels like to kill face to face. You need to remember to feel when you kill someone, like what you feel when you step on an ant. But remember never make a mistake in killing someone who doesn't deserve to die. Hurting someone is one thing but once you kill someone you can never take it back," Rorschach said.
"Right, I remember that," Terra said looking up to her mentor. She remembers the training that she had done with Slade but all he taught her was how to control her powers and how to fight like him. The training was hell but it paid off as she could now control her power better then before and had some Batman type skills now. "When are you going to give me some training from hell?"
"Training from hell doesn't work," Rorschach said surprising Terra. (1)
"What do you mean?" Terra ask.
"I'm not training you to be able to fight like Batman, I'm teaching you how to kill. Doesn't matter how skilled you are, getting your head smash open still makes you dead. You read what happen to Superman's arch foe. When you're facing someone with power armor but leaves their head expose you don't fight to take down you grab a gun and shoot his face. You don't need to be skilled to do that. I fought people who are trained fighters and they're all dead," Rorschach explains.
"Right what we do, we don't let those kinds of people live," Terra said.
"No we don't that's why you need to get use to having blood on your hands. The training from hell just narrows the field to what the one who created it wants, wasting too many who would be good otherwise. I don't need someone who is cripple or mind is broken," Rorschach said.
"You ran into people like that?" Terra ask.
"Since they had no metahumans to use the army tried to turn soldiers into super soldiers through hell training from Comedian and drugs before shipping them off to Vietnam. Did nothing more then create a whole generation of ex-soldiers who suffer from mental problems or are cripple. Seen them all the time living on the streets, taking drugs or drinking to get away from their memories or committing crimes. And the ones who did pass and kept it together are worse then me," Rorschach explains. (2)
"Worse then you?" Terra ask.
"I still hold on to something that keeps me from becoming a monster. The ex-soldiers after Manhattan won the war, don't. They were all taken care of by Manhattan once the ones who turned into what they became, realized what happens when super soldiers don't have a war to fight anymore go back to normal life. It wasn't pretty for anyone," Rorschach said not going into what happen.
"Oh," Terra said understanding what had happen to those soldiers once there's no longer any use for them. Or what they did once they came back home.
"You're still young and there's still a life you can have that doesn't follow mine. I will either die or fade away, alone. That's why, I'm not going to train you to be like me," Rorschach said. "I'll just show how to kill. After that everything is up to you. Power comes when there's a reason. Make a reason."
"You are kind," Terra said surprising Rorschach. "You're kind enough to show me everything that, I'm going to see and have to do to do what you do. Not because you want me to become like you, but because you don't want me to be like you. Everything you do is to make sure that no one would ever wants to be like you."
Rorschach thinking what she said about him. He turns around and left the room without a word.
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Author's Notes -
1 - Training from hell is counterproductive (if done badly or just by being done) to the health and efficiency of the recruits. Confusing abuse with thoroughness, not only produces an extremely small percentage of recruits who may or may not be efficient instead of being resilient to pain and laid insane amount of waste of resources (90 to 95%), but can simply run down said recruits and damaging them irreparably before action, both physically and mentally. And the "magnificent" results may just be a popular myth. This was doublely so in ancient Times with a more flippant attitude to death and very bad medical care: take, for example, the Shaolin warriors, that while the training made them harder, it killed or crippled dozens of applicants, destroyed untold potential and the results were not all that great (as Chinese history and "purges" shown), regardless of what popular culture would make you believe. Simply put beating a horse to near death doesn't make a great horse, just a very crippled one. Besides you can have a few elite troops who are the strongest soldiers but it doesn't matter if there are more normal soldiers then the elites. Look what happen to the Jedi after the Storm Troopers are ordered to kill them. Doesn't matter if they are the strongest warriors in the galaxy there's a reason why during the second movie the Jedi attacking droids did well at first but it soon became clear that there are just too many of the droids and far too few Jedis.
2 - Going through hell training makes hardens you to the point where you don't show emotions like non-soldiers do. Add the drugs to fuel soldiers to fight like in the real Vietnam war in true comic book fashion as well in some cases in real life creates ex-soldiers who turn to crime as there's nothing for them in normal life. And the soldiers were trained by the Comedian who shot a pregnant woman without a hint of remorse and it was his baby. You get the picture of the soldiers who were trained by him would be like for the ones who survived it in a sense anyways.
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