Ilberd

[Enkidoh]

Eh, was just trying to play Devil's Advocate. Has the brainwashing thing come up since the 1.0 story? I honestly can't recall a mention of it in ARR...but I might have missed something like the Garlean citizenship thing I mentioned. And the forced prostitution thing? I know there was a mention of that one NPC who was birthed from rape but again, don't remember prostitution being brought up

Not specifically since 1.0 - but the zealous nature of most Garlean soldiers in ARR seems to suggest that it is still very much the case (remember that LNC who utterly butchered fallen Scions in the Waking Sands? The guy was utterly insane, so much so Livia shot him dead.

Either way, 1.0 clearly showed the brainwashing taking place (through an Echo scene, which, although it's unclear whose memory it was, it seems to have actually been Gaius's memory as he was the only Garlean around at that time):

(The player comes to in a darkened cave. Nearby are a group of frightened children sitting huddled together)
Shivering Child: "Where are we going?"
Terrified Child: "...."
Shuddering Child: "Mama..."
Cried-Out Child: "Where are you from? I'm from Ala Mhigo..."
Cowering Child: "Please... I'm so tired..."
(The player then sees a group of Garlean soldiers approaching, led by a Garlean Centurion. The player quickly hides behind a bush. The Garleans surround the children and the Centurion addresses them.
Imperial Centurion: "Believe thyself. Believe thy strength."
Imperial Centurion: "Know thyself. Know thy weakness."
Imperial Centurion: "Thou art alone. One amongst many."
Imperial Centurion: "The land is alone. One star in the Void."
Imperial Centurion: "See through the lies. See beyond the words of deceivers."
Imperial Centurion: "Follow the truth. Follow the whispers of verity."
Imperial Centurion: "Protect that which must be. Destroy that which must not."
Imperial Centurion: "For Calamity draws nigh. The end is upon thee!"
(A change comes over the children as they suddenly stop whimpering and start hissing angrily through clenched teeth)
Shuddering Child: "Kill the tribes."
Terrified Child: "Kill their gods."
Shuddering Child: "Kill the tribes."
Shuddering Child: "Before the Land doth perish!"
(The Garlean soldiers then lead the children outside to a hovering Garlean airship and the Echo scene ends)

Additionally, at other times during 1.0 it was stated how Ala Mhigan children would be taken from their parents by the Garleans and then sent north for military training 'never to be seen or heard from again':

Brutish Resistance Member: "The Empire is using Ala Mhigo as a breeding ground for new soldiers. Once children reach a certain age, they are taken from their parents and sent into the north for training, never to be seen or heard from again."

ARR might not have shown this though, but the conduct of Garlean soldiers in ARR seems to make this ring true, or at least, it does to me.

As for prostitution, there were several cases in ARR where it was mentioned Garlean soldiers were raping Ala Mhigans - firstly, at Revenant's Toll during the lead up to infiltrating Castrum Centri, Glaumunt mentioned this was the fate that befell his mother and sister after his family were forcibly imprisoned in a Garlean gulag, both of whom ended up being driven to suicide because of the sexual abuse they were being subjected to by the Garlean soldiers:

Glaumunt: "Like most folk, I used to have a mother. She was a sweet, carin' woman with a smile never far from her face. There was a sister too. Pretty little thing-gentle as a lamb, but tough as nails. We were poor folk livin' simple lives, but we knew happiness just the same."
Glaumunt: "An' then the Imperials came an' took it all away. When Ala Mhigo fell, they put my family in a camp. Bein' a lad, I was made to do hard labour, while my mother an' sister were made to do far worse.... They hid their sufferin' from me as best they could, but I knew, an' the thought of it drove me mad. We had to escape. An' so I hatched a plan to get us out o' the city."
Glaumunt: "We were pickin' our way around a gorge not far outside the walls when they caught up with us... An' rather than allow themselves to be taken again, my mother an' sister leaped over the edge before my very eyes. Heartbroken as I was, I didn't put up a fight when the Imperials clapped me in chains an' dragged me back."

Then, a short time later, while infiltrating Castrum Centri, there is a Garlean soldier who if you speak to him admits he's lusting after a female prisoner (naturally, one of the Scions), which the player makes the obvious conclusion it's Minfilia, but in actual fact, he's lusting after Tataru (for extra 'yuck' value, the Garlean is a Midlander hyur), and admits to what he wants to do to her (albeit using euphemisms to hide his true intentions under a 'benign' veneer, but he didn't fool me)...

Imperial Guard: "Greetings, comrade. Forgive me for asking, but you haven't visited the storage tower recently, have you? I only ask because I dropped something in there, and... um.. Oh who am I fooling? I've fallen for one of the prisoners, allright? I daresay you know the one I mean... Eh? The svelte blonde? Goodness no!"
Imperial Guard: "It's the lalafell lass I'm smitten with! She's so adorable, it hurts! I want to sweep her up into my arms and squeeze her to my arms ache! What do you think it will take to convince the Centurion to lend me the key so I could see her?"

.... I honestly could barely finishing typing that before a wave of nausea washed over me.... -_-

Needless to say, that alone shows just how 'benign' the Garleans are towards members of conquered nations, and no amount of sugar coating it can change that. The game makes it perfectly clear that they are not to be sympathized with and are the stereotypical 'evil Empire'.