"The puppets used to be human controlled puppets. We have evidence of this. 2D images and ancient video of two, three, sotis four humans all hiding just off screen operating a puppet while it interacts with people.
"Like all things the humans make, they were loved and cherished. Yes, even now every bomb and bullet is loved and cherished by the humans. They na their garbage grinders. But when sothing is loved by them for a long ti, things get... Strange.
"By the ti of the Glassing, there was Tri-D video of those puppets still around. Still interacting with humans. And without human puppeteers in sight. Felt creatures interacting with Human children. The Mantid just thought they had robotic endoskeletons. Puppets for a new age.
"Then ca the Glassing. The Mantid attack awoke a lot of dark things in Humanity, and the videos of the puppets stopped. The other races have always thought the videos stopped due to the rage of Humanity burning away wonder and whimsy. The only other ti was Project Streetlights and Project Neighborhood. And then almost nothing.
"But the Mantid have the records. Everyone rembers Anthill. No one talks about a small battle just before. A fringe colony with a na lost to ti. Where the Mantid tried to farm the colonists to see if it was feasible to use them as a source of psychic nourishnt. Then a ship arrived. Just one. It barreled through the orbitals and near crash landed. From within ca beings of felt and polyester stuffing. The Mantid recognized them as the robotic puppets and sent Warriors to destroy them. But there was no tal within. No circuits. No flesh or blood.
"Stuffed toys, animated and given life by billions of children loving and believing in them. Trillions of adults cherishing them. And now, howling with glee, they throw themselves at those that hurt their beloved Masters. The Mantid did not keep the planet. Tales of animated stuffed toys were dismissed by the Hives. But it was noted and recorded.
"So say they only look like animated stuffed toys. That it is a fungal colony that resembles felt and polyester that is used to animate the Muppets. But the Mantid know better. We tasted them, fought them, died to them. They shouldn't move, shouldn't exist.
"But they do.
"The Terrans denied everything. And the rest of the Universe moved on. We suspected the puppets were alive before the Glassing. That afterwards the psychic pain of billions of murdered children drove them mad. We didn't realize what was right in front of our faces the entire ti. In Ultra-high Def Tri-V.
"The puppets were always insane. There was just more love than hate keeping them in check." - Excerpt from "Harlem Hellfighters - Felt & Stuffing: A History
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