Divergence
Maybe they were left alone too often. Maybe it was because their dad was gone and their mom was a wreck. Maybe it was because their first life lesson was that strong people take what they want and weak people get screwed over. Maybe it was because they spent their formative years surrounded by people who were weak and got screwed over. Maybe they were bored with being weak.
Maybe that's why one day Queen broke their usual habit of embracing victimization and basking in the pity that resulted by suggesting, in a cold, sly, definitive, impulsive voice that she'd never adopted until that point and would retain for years to come, in every endeavor, "Let's be bad guys."
And they thought about it. And they smiled at one another. And they taught themselves a second life lesson.
Maybe that's what drove them from the Safe-Home for Battered Women where their mother lay in her bed and was a wreck, and where their dad wasn't allowed to go and never tried to go. Maybe that's when they learned to reject weakness and embrace strength.
And maybe that was why, when they snuck into movies, they always rooted for the villains.
