Ooooh, I see. So what we would see as individual Things are basically a bunch of Things working in concert. [furrows brow] I swear my father told me about a sort of jellyfish that functioned sort of like that once. Like, all the different parts -- the digestive system, the tentacles, and so on -- were all technically separate creatures, but they were all specialized for one job and thus lived together as one bigger thing. Obviously your cells can just do their own thing as necessary, but -- well, it helps ME make sense of it.

And that makes more sense. So not only were you against the humans, you were also against Things from different "parents," and -- it was all just very stressful.