So About The Sides

So about the Sides

Is Lilly the only person who can see them or can everyone? Like , like can Thomas's friends just walk into his house and find like 5 of him or is Supperwoman the only one?

“The easiest way to steal a man’s wallet is to tell him you’re going to steal his watch. You take his attention and direct it where you want it to go.” ― Leigh Bardugo

So, you want a look at human history?

First thing you gotta do is understand the mentality. They evolved as predators. Yeah, I know, they ain’t got any natural weapons to speak of… Kinda. You ever see what a desperate human will do to another in a bar fight with just their teeth? Nasty shit, man. Nasty, nasty shit. 

Omnivores? Yeah, but you look at the average human’s diet, especially early on in their history. Meat was a crucial part in their diet. They love the shit. 

So, as predators, they really only had two options. Tool use… And endurance. They evolved to literally run faster, meaner creatures into the ground. They could kill by running another organism to exhaustion.

Pretty cool, but every predatory race has their strategies: the Vorl swarm their prey, the Singers mimic sounds of children in distress, so on and so forth. But you gotta understand what this means for human psychology; they can play the long game. They’re in it for the long haul.

At some point, they gave up the nomadic lifestyle and settled down. The genes for that nomadic badassery never went away, though. The worst of them did drugs or extreme sports. Most of them just really didn’t give a fuck. Nearly wiped themselves out a couple times. 

No respect for the horrors of war, either. Their greatest stories all revolve around some kind of combat.

So they fiddlefuck their way into space, and as soon as it’s technologically feasible, the portion of the population with the nomadic genes, or those who’d been infected with the nomadic memecomplex, took off in their little ships, mining asteroids and whatnot. 

They left their star system. Colonized a few systems, got into a war. Their home planet got glassed in no time flat… But here’s the thing. Humans? They hate centralized command. They’ve never really been totally united. 

So the home planet’s gone. The nomads don’t give a fuck. They just keep bebopping their happy go lucky asses all over the cosmos. 

So these dudes just roam all around the big empty, happy as clams. Some reclaim the sedentary lifestyle, the empire building sort, but most don’t. They’ve seen empires fall over and over again, but nomadic groups have survived the worst empires can throw at them. That’s the biggest lesson of their history. Empires fall. Nomads don’t.

Not to say they don’t have a culture, this galaxy spanning diaspora. They do. They have quantum entangled comms, a net of sorts, so they can communicate new discoveries to each other… 

They’re quiet, ubiquitous, rough little beings. They squabble, trade, and fight all over the galaxy. They’ve been scattered since before the rise of not only this Hegemony, but the rise of the Dominion before that. They’ll be here when our successor power on the galactic stage takes over. And they’re dangerous. Go after one group somewhere, and pretty soon you’re looking at raids everywhere you have a stake. Death by a thousand cuts.

But normally? They’re nothing to look twice at. They’re the cockroaches in the walls of a house, and they’ll be the last species standing in this crapsack universe.

All For One: [pausing in the middle of a speech to address Kaminari, who’s standing in the corner] how… how did you get in here?

Kaminari: oh, uh… idk man, i was going to get some gushers and got lost on my way to the kitchen

All For One: so you somehow ended up in our top-secret villain headquarters… on your way to the kitchen?

Kirishima: that about sums it up, yeah

All For One: now there’s two of you, what—

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if you brought shakespeare back to life and showed him the lion king i bet he’d be like “this shit fucks why didn’t anyone tell me i could use lions”