In my line of work, in vampire hunting, we tend to grab people who have already trained for years in another profession that requires knowledge of weapons, fighting, things like that. Occasionally, you get a young kid, but it's hard to get them trained well enough to keep them in one piece during their first hunt.
Most don't make it, even when the team they're training with pulls together to try and keep the kid protected.
I don't doubt that you do the best you can; they lose, you lose. But comparatively speaking, that's an awful lot of time they don't have while trying to learn. Probably makes it all the more impressive for the audience when they make it through, but I'd be willing to bet a lot of it is luck and sheer survival mode. And if they're not allowed to back out, they're going to do anything they can to survive.
Bashing each other over the head with rocks isn't skill; it's desperation.
no subject
[Derek shakes his head]
In my line of work, in vampire hunting, we tend to grab people who have already trained for years in another profession that requires knowledge of weapons, fighting, things like that. Occasionally, you get a young kid, but it's hard to get them trained well enough to keep them in one piece during their first hunt.
Most don't make it, even when the team they're training with pulls together to try and keep the kid protected.
I don't doubt that you do the best you can; they lose, you lose. But comparatively speaking, that's an awful lot of time they don't have while trying to learn. Probably makes it all the more impressive for the audience when they make it through, but I'd be willing to bet a lot of it is luck and sheer survival mode. And if they're not allowed to back out, they're going to do anything they can to survive.
Bashing each other over the head with rocks isn't skill; it's desperation.