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> Yes, I hate my brothers
> Yes, they destroyed my life
> Yes, I will probably kill them at some point in my life
> But they are my brothers and I will not let you touch any of them
> Because there is nothing more pure than hatred to your own siblings. You can say you hate them but you still love them no matter what. -- Anon Guest

Family is complicated, if you let it get that way. Let me begin with explaining mine. I was born on one of the "better" Greater Deregulations. In that women were allowed to leave the house and do things according to their own wants. Allegedly.

That said, infant mortality was high for girls born outside of the bawdy factories. Yeah. I was a 'priest hole' baby. That is, a baby girl hidden from the notice of my sire by my mother and her co-mothers. It's more common than you think. Our collective sire despised girl children and viewed the worth of his masculinity by how many boys he created.

Five brothers knew I was alive. Five brothers knew I existed. One of them told our sire, by accident or design, that I shared their home. I still don't know what happened to my mother, but I was taken from her in the middle of the night and shipped out to one of the trader stations for a 'baby auction'. Anyone could come and purchase an unwanted child. Nobody asked why there were so many girls there.

I don't remember a lot of it. I was barely past learning how to use the toilet. I remember someone holding my hand and I was crying about the scratchy cord they'd used to put the number around my neck. I remember a lot of weird aliens and some people like my sire grabbing my face and pressing so hard that I had more reasons to cry. I was Lot 24601, and after all the face grabbing, I could not stop bawling.

There were numbers so big, I couldn't understand them. I was vaguely aware that things cost numbers, because I had heard my sire yelling about it to the mothers. I didn't understand, and I was upset about being taken from the only home I knew. My brothers... ruined whatever that life could be.

I've learned better since then. My adopted mothers have been very understanding. For years, I thought that was the end of it.

Spoilers. It wasn't.

My brothers took it into their heads to track me down and try whatever they could to teach me a lesson. To try and teach me better than daring to be born a girl. Something like that, anyway. One of them sent me a fifty-page manifesto about how I was evil for slighting our father by being born. I honestly didn't read it.

Five brothers became twenty who were somehow offended by the fact that I was still alive and not in bondage because I 'owed' people for my existence.

Thank the Powers That Be that I escaped those particular avenues of thought when I was still young enough to want to learn better ways. My brothers... Well. Let's just say that I've only caught the very _edges_ of their irritation with me, and I want to end them.

All twenty of them. Individually. Preferably in a way that teaches _them_ a lesson in regards to messing with me. Maybe those on the bottom of the list will learn from the examples set by those at the top. Horrible death optional as I go down the list.

Some of them have only been performative in their "tutorials". I can sense that the rest of my blood relatives were forcing them to do those things. Nevertheless, they have made my life hell, even with _performative_ anger, so ending them is one of my options.

However, they are still family. I've made that clear to the CRC and all other agents of law enforcement on my side. They can help block them, their efforts, and otherwise protect me from their wrath... but ending them?

That's _my_ job.

I loved them once, when I was tiny and didn't know any better. Once, they were worthy of my love.

Now they are worthy of ruin, and I shall provide it.

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