tygermama:

you know, in all the absolutely wonderful ‘aliens think humans are weird because we’ll pack bond with anything’ posts that have been going around, I haven’t seen any ‘humans are weird because their primary child care givers will adopt you whether you want to be or not’

like ‘thank you for saving my children and I from the escape pod after our ship was attacked. is… is this how you live? oh, honey. don’t worry, I’ll make some food and then we can all clean this up, as a family.’

‘but Zhoroth, surely they noticed that you were the one who disabled their ship?’

‘It turns out that the humans’ standard hailing frequency is the same frequency that T’gorian torpedoes use to home in to attack. And I’ve only had my human family three days, but I am attached now and if anything happened to them I would kill everyone on this base and then myself. Now please excuse me, I have to do my chores before dinner.’