[ did those exist in the past. the past where 18 is apparently way too old to be starting a job (but 10 is too young???). probably? maybe? they were definitely not called that. and probably did not exist in Hisui. ]
But nope. Far from it. We grew up in Anville. Neither of you know what that means so I will have to explain. It is a small and sleepy town in the middle of nowhere. You aren't even allowed to fly to it on Pokémon, it is that small. It is also far away from any other settlements or routes and surrounded by dense forests.
The main thing there—the only thing, really—is the rail yard. And because you cannot fly to and from it, people come and go by train. So we were pretty much surrounded by trains growing up. The people who lived there—also, generally had a job relating to them, one way or other.
Still doesn't mean we were allowed to work on them until we were eighteen, though.
[ he says that kind of like 'yeah, he wishes too.' but you know, child labor, and also for some reason people are just a little bit leery of a teenager anywhere near a position where they could operate heavy machinery and or be responsible for a bunch of other people's lives on the regular, who'd have thought. ]
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[ did those exist in the past. the past where 18 is apparently way too old to be starting a job (but 10 is too young???). probably? maybe? they were definitely not called that. and probably did not exist in Hisui. ]
But nope. Far from it. We grew up in Anville. Neither of you know what that means so I will have to explain. It is a small and sleepy town in the middle of nowhere. You aren't even allowed to fly to it on Pokémon, it is that small. It is also far away from any other settlements or routes and surrounded by dense forests.
The main thing there—the only thing, really—is the rail yard. And because you cannot fly to and from it, people come and go by train. So we were pretty much surrounded by trains growing up. The people who lived there—also, generally had a job relating to them, one way or other.
Still doesn't mean we were allowed to work on them until we were eighteen, though.
[ he says that kind of like 'yeah, he wishes too.' but you know, child labor, and also for some reason people are just a little bit leery of a teenager anywhere near a position where they could operate heavy machinery and or be responsible for a bunch of other people's lives on the regular, who'd have thought. ]