[Well, at least Sophia had calmed down, even if she didn't look exactly happy. Duo, not so much.
Kit shook her head as well.]
If they did stuff like that, then they weren't really good guys. They might've said they were, and maybe they even thought they were, but they weren't. Back home... Back home, us cats were like that for a long time. Not me or my friends, I mean, but just... cats all together, you know?
[She makes a broad gesture with her free hand indicating that she means the cats as a group, rather than any particular individuals.]
We thought that because cats were stronger, that meant that we were better than all the other animals and that what we wanted was the right thing for everybody. That it was our job to make all the other animal tribes do what we wanted, and that that was the only way that things would be peaceful. All our stories told us that we were the good guys, the heroes that freed everybody from Mumm-Ra and kept the animals from just fighting each other all the time.
But... the cats were really just a big bunch of bullies. That's part of why the Lizards destroyed Thundara; yeah, Mumm-Ra gave them weapons and stuff, but we'd been really mean to them for a long time, so it's no wonder they hated us.
But Lion-O and the rest of my friends back home are really good guys. Some them have guns; Tygra has a little one that he took off of one of the lizards, and Panthro has the Thundertank and that has all kinds of weapons. But they only use them to protect people.
Like at the Berbil village. The Berbils are really nice, and they're really good at building things, but they can't really fight. So this jerk called Conquedor kept attacking them with this big machine and taking Berbils to sell as slaves, and they couldn't do anything. He showed up again while we were there. He surprised us the first time, so we didn't do too well. He took a bunch of Berbils, along with our friend Rober Bill's family, and Rober Bill got hurt really bad trying to save them. But Panthro fixed him up, then Bill, Lion-O, Tygra, and Cheetara all went and rescued the Berbils that Conquedor took.
But that made him mad, so he was gonna come back again, and bring a bunch of his friends this time. But we figured out how the Berbils could rig up the village with booby traps to protect themselves. That helped, but we really only won when Panthro used the Thundertank's weapons to wreck Conquedor's machine. Then Lion-O took the Sword of Omens and smashed his regular weapon too, til he ran off like a scaredy-snarf, just to make sure he'd leave the Berbils alone. And with the booby traps still there, the village would be safe from anybody else trying things like that.
Conquedor had guns, yeah. But so did we. Difference is, we used them to keep him from bullying folks around, and to protect them. Cause that's what good guys do. They protect people who can't protect themselves, they don't hurt them. And if anybody says they're a good guy, then goes around hurting or bullying people just because they can, then they're a liar, even if they don't know it.
[Kit gets a little quieter, but there's still conviction in her voice. It's clear she firmly believes what she's saying.]
Lion-O wants to show that to everybody. He wants to show everybody that just being stronger, or having better weapons, doesn't make you right. And it doesn't mean you can hurt people just to get your way. Because if you're nice to people, and help them and protect them, then you won't have to make them do stuff; they'll just do it cause they want to, and cause you're their friend. That's why he's a good king, and a good guy, and so are the other Thundercats I'm friends with, whether they use guns or not. Cause they all believe that too. And so do I.
[Kit ends her speech with a firm nod, as if to say 'that's that'.]
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Kit shook her head as well.]
If they did stuff like that, then they weren't really good guys. They might've said they were, and maybe they even thought they were, but they weren't. Back home... Back home, us cats were like that for a long time. Not me or my friends, I mean, but just... cats all together, you know?
[She makes a broad gesture with her free hand indicating that she means the cats as a group, rather than any particular individuals.]
We thought that because cats were stronger, that meant that we were better than all the other animals and that what we wanted was the right thing for everybody. That it was our job to make all the other animal tribes do what we wanted, and that that was the only way that things would be peaceful. All our stories told us that we were the good guys, the heroes that freed everybody from Mumm-Ra and kept the animals from just fighting each other all the time.
But... the cats were really just a big bunch of bullies. That's part of why the Lizards destroyed Thundara; yeah, Mumm-Ra gave them weapons and stuff, but we'd been really mean to them for a long time, so it's no wonder they hated us.
But Lion-O and the rest of my friends back home are really good guys. Some them have guns; Tygra has a little one that he took off of one of the lizards, and Panthro has the Thundertank and that has all kinds of weapons. But they only use them to protect people.
Like at the Berbil village. The Berbils are really nice, and they're really good at building things, but they can't really fight. So this jerk called Conquedor kept attacking them with this big machine and taking Berbils to sell as slaves, and they couldn't do anything. He showed up again while we were there. He surprised us the first time, so we didn't do too well. He took a bunch of Berbils, along with our friend Rober Bill's family, and Rober Bill got hurt really bad trying to save them. But Panthro fixed him up, then Bill, Lion-O, Tygra, and Cheetara all went and rescued the Berbils that Conquedor took.
But that made him mad, so he was gonna come back again, and bring a bunch of his friends this time. But we figured out how the Berbils could rig up the village with booby traps to protect themselves. That helped, but we really only won when Panthro used the Thundertank's weapons to wreck Conquedor's machine. Then Lion-O took the Sword of Omens and smashed his regular weapon too, til he ran off like a scaredy-snarf, just to make sure he'd leave the Berbils alone. And with the booby traps still there, the village would be safe from anybody else trying things like that.
Conquedor had guns, yeah. But so did we. Difference is, we used them to keep him from bullying folks around, and to protect them. Cause that's what good guys do. They protect people who can't protect themselves, they don't hurt them. And if anybody says they're a good guy, then goes around hurting or bullying people just because they can, then they're a liar, even if they don't know it.
[Kit gets a little quieter, but there's still conviction in her voice. It's clear she firmly believes what she's saying.]
Lion-O wants to show that to everybody. He wants to show everybody that just being stronger, or having better weapons, doesn't make you right. And it doesn't mean you can hurt people just to get your way. Because if you're nice to people, and help them and protect them, then you won't have to make them do stuff; they'll just do it cause they want to, and cause you're their friend. That's why he's a good king, and a good guy, and so are the other Thundercats I'm friends with, whether they use guns or not. Cause they all believe that too. And so do I.
[Kit ends her speech with a firm nod, as if to say 'that's that'.]