[And if Falco's uncle got sent to the island, then it's entirely possible Erwin ran into him at some point. For all Erwin knows, Falco's uncle is the one who took his arm.]

And they wouldn't accept the adults in your family? They wanted the children?

[Fuck, but that's a good strategy: getting the youngest, most pliant members of a family and forcing them into the Marley war machine, feeding them all the propaganda they can handle, and promising mercy for the adults, who will stay quiet for fear of their children being murdered. It's brilliantly simple, and so horrific that it turns Erwin's stomach. He's done things he isn't proud of, but he's never sent literal children to do his dirty work.]

[Whether fifteen year olds count as literal children is a matter for debate.]

I'm sorry, Falco. You and your brother didn't deserve that.