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Actually, it paints a very sad picture, because the Stewards believe that conquered races should serve their conquerors and "it's just".

Then comes Clark Kent, filled with Ma and Pa Kent's ethics of compassion, and the Stewards are shown a "what if" scenario where they weren't conquered but treated kindly.

Alright, credit where it's due, I never thought we were ever going to see the Vrill Drox version of Brainiac in this series. So the fact that the writers managed to give us a MAWS version of the character is genuinely impressive.

My genuine reaction to Conquest's Monologue tbh.

But no seriously, think about it, the Viltrumites are the exaggerated evolution of a hyper-competitive, hyper-violent, hyper-individualist society. Low key, I think that's why Kirkman made every male Viltrumite looks like someone's Dad or Uncle. It's almost like, a very blatant representation of what even a normal guy is forced to become under such an extreme system.

A spontaneous "what if Mark got his powers earlier" 14 page oneshot comic about Nolan and the results of his A++ parenting.

cw: angst, physical child abuse, major character death

Two versions bc one is high effort and one is kinda funny

Anissa is completely unbothered, napping on a floating bed and drifting away. She’ll wake up in another state.

Lucan has accidentally entered the sand castle competition and he’s winning by recreating the whole ass capital of Viltrum.

Thula and Elix are drinking one beer after the other while they lay in perfect silence under the beach umbrella’s shade.

Or Mark learning 1/10000 of what Vic’s powers feel like on the other end

And a silly bonus:

while marks at his baseball game waiting for his turn to pitch the ball, nic and vic are somewhere in a laboratory or training room forced to figure out how to use their powers correctly while being brutally beaten just for their powers to activate/strengthen them.

does mark ever apologize? that nic sees how normal he is even though he has powers of his own even after what happened with his dad. i’m sure nic wouldn’t be resentful or too jealous, because she is semi dependent on mark, but i wonder what she truly thinks when she’s left alone with her thoughts.

Correcting you now you are asking about Vic not Nic. Nic has barely any relationship with Mark in “main” universe and she very much dislikes his ass lmao

And to answer your question

I think Vic doesn’t really feel much jealousy towards Mark for having better life than her

Vic was raised in a way where she is extremely aware of the fact that she is a weapon and a tool brought into the world with a specific purpose

Her sense of her own personhood and humanity is so diminished due to both her upbringing and the way her powers work she can’t really feel jealous of Mark’s life because of how fundamentally different they are and how she can’t even imagine having a life similar to his for herself

She would probably think of it as like knife being jealous of a human for having arms lmao

Vic just can’t put herself and Mark in the same category to even begin thinking about wishing to have life like this because Mark is too good

Additionally Vic’s love for Mark tends to sway in a direction where she idolizes, enables and coddles him so even if he were to say anything bad about her behaviors while ignorant of her upbringing she wouldn’t protest and take his words for granted that “yeah I am fucked up” because that’s just genuinely what she thinks of herself

She doesn’t know how to love people without serving some sort of purpose to them to earn being loved back despite how broken she is

I think only time when Vic would actually snap back at Mark to make him feel like shit about his frankly privileged life would be if he said anything like that about Nic

Ironically enough while Vic is completely at peace with never thinking of herself as a proper human being the same doesn’t apply to Nic in her head

Vic is extremely aware of the fact that Nic was only kept around because of her and that developed such intense feeling of guilt in her for all the shit that Nic had to go through when she really didn’t have to and it is all her fault

In Vic’s mind she is the tool created to serve its mission and Nic is an innocent victim of circumstance robbed of childhood, life, and purpose outside of suffering in her name

So if Mark made any sort of remark about her sister yeah thats gloves off thats going to be some intense verbal lashings because how fucking dare YOU of all people judge HER for what she does?? Your biggest problem in life up until last year was some asshole classmate you can’t remember name of now! Do you even know the type of shit she was subjected to before she could even speak?! Can you even imagine it??

I do think that Mark wouldn’t fight her too much on it once called out so directly

why would you say this to me my head is going to grow so fucking big now LMAO

I think because Markus naturally views others as beneath him he doesn’t like people shortening his name, finds it belittling especially when he hears it from people like Immortal or Cecil who he assumes only do that to him because they perceive him as young

While Nic wants to be called by nickname since Nicole makes her feel like she is being referred to as her project instead of person and she doesn’t want that from people she holds dear

Someone from Gotham: "Oh yeah? Well OUR pollen mind controls us. And that's only if the smog doesn't get us first."

Someone from Metropolis: "Brrrrr. Winter is chilly this year."

Someone from Gothan: "OH YEAH? Ever heard about a little someone called 'Mr Freeze'?"

Central City Cousin: "Wow! Sounds intense."

Gothamite: "Hah, to you, maybe. For us it's just a way of life. Like, the other day when Killer Crock smashed my carpool and..."

Central City Cousin: "Just a minute..." * turns offscreen * "No, the energy crystals are in the other cupboard. Those are my M&M" * turns back * "Sorry, you were saying?"

Gothamite: "...energy crystals?"