"No, it's alright. I don't find your questions invasive. It was only recently that I was able to finally contextualize what they did to me - and my son - and bring those responsible to justice. It's been cathartic to finally be able to talk about it."
His brow furrows.
"I don't think their aims were to actually prevent anyone in our family line from becoming supervillains. My mother was treated the same way and became a sociopath, and almost killed me. My son, who was genetically engineered - our way of conceiving children - without my knowledge, almost conquered the galaxy. I fortunately intervened just in time to save him from that existence. To take him away from all this to a place where he could be loved. And thankfully, he's healing."
He tries to articulate a truth he's known for a long time.
"It was never about preventing us from following in my ancestor's footsteps. My species has a sense of xenocentric superiority due to our status of being one of the most intelligent species in the galaxy. They deeply resent any beings exceeding the baseline of the average Coluan intelligence. It was even discovered recently that they tried to discreetly destroy the Roboticans multiple times due to robotic life exceeding the Coluan intellectual norm, and due to machine life menacing Colu in the past."
They hated anything that challenged the average most Coluans could come close to attaining and had a long memory for any attacks.
"Some species engage in various forms of hatred for the Other: racial hatred, xenophobia, hatred for minorities that have diverse sexual and gender orientations, and so on. For my species, anyone that stands out as intellectually superior is a freak of nature that needs to be controlled. Punished. The fact that my mother, son, and I were descended from a monstrous genocidal maniac just made it easier to excuse, so they could pretend they were too evolved for general bigotry."
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His brow furrows.
"I don't think their aims were to actually prevent anyone in our family line from becoming supervillains. My mother was treated the same way and became a sociopath, and almost killed me. My son, who was genetically engineered - our way of conceiving children - without my knowledge, almost conquered the galaxy. I fortunately intervened just in time to save him from that existence. To take him away from all this to a place where he could be loved. And thankfully, he's healing."
He tries to articulate a truth he's known for a long time.
"It was never about preventing us from following in my ancestor's footsteps. My species has a sense of xenocentric superiority due to our status of being one of the most intelligent species in the galaxy. They deeply resent any beings exceeding the baseline of the average Coluan intelligence. It was even discovered recently that they tried to discreetly destroy the Roboticans multiple times due to robotic life exceeding the Coluan intellectual norm, and due to machine life menacing Colu in the past."
They hated anything that challenged the average most Coluans could come close to attaining and had a long memory for any attacks.
"Some species engage in various forms of hatred for the Other: racial hatred, xenophobia, hatred for minorities that have diverse sexual and gender orientations, and so on. For my species, anyone that stands out as intellectually superior is a freak of nature that needs to be controlled. Punished. The fact that my mother, son, and I were descended from a monstrous genocidal maniac just made it easier to excuse, so they could pretend they were too evolved for general bigotry."