Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2133523-20140131173125/@comment-241978-20140409045206

Albedo's problem is that he is prideful to the point of stupidity. If he had pulled his head out of his own @$$ for five minutes and asked Ben for a spot on the team when they first met, Azmuth would be praising him right now.

But Albedo didn't do that. Why? Because he is an adolescent Galvan addled with hormones and rebellious thoughts towards adults. He is impulsive and by all rights shouldn't be allowed to make any of the decisions he does without Azmuth being sent to prison for child negligence. In fact, Azmuth and Max Tennyson by all rights should be sent to prison for child endangerment because Ben, Gwen, Kevin and Albedo are all child soldiers. Ben actually has nightmares so horrible he tries to avoid sleeping at all because he spent the last 6 years of his life fighting and running away from people who were trying to chop his arm off. None of them have had anything remotely like a normal childhood and probably have massive unresolved psychological issues and yet they are expected to fight crime on a daily basis. Azmuth and Maz Tennyson are no better than Gendo Ikari, and are in fact worse because they actually believe this horrific crime against innocent children is a good thing.

Yet, despite being an insane child soldier who can't reasonably be held accountable for his actions, Albedo is continually tormented in ridiculously mean-spirited ways when he should really be receiving professional psychological help. Azmuth's cruel treatment of him constitutes child abuse.

For comparison, Sunny actually put innocent people at risk because she's a gleeful psychopath only interested in causing as much pointless destruction as possible... and got off with being grounded when she really should've been sent to a psychiatric institution because she's a danger to herself and everyone around her.