“The Misfits makes use of the fact that people are easily blinded by their own preconceptions and misconceptions of what spies should look like and who they think is a reasonable opponent,” Lorna laid out a popular fashion magazine between them on the table. She leafed through a few pages, and swept her hand over a layout with a number of people posing in a park, an ad for some clothing line. “Is this real? Is what we perceive as what we should buy actually true?”
“Ads are never real, and even article photos in magazines are often faked. But it’s not like that’s a surprise to most people.”
“We’ve built billion-dollar industries out of telling people what they want, and millions goes into advertising every year on how to best fool them into believing it.” She turned a few more pages, and pointed at a model holding a makeup compact. “Much of what’s advertised is also to hide our own flaws and problems. So we capitalize that on the Misfits. People who are different are considered ineffective. People who can’t hide their shortcomings are not considered a threat. A lot of spies rely on being unobtrusive, but we flat out flaunt the fact that we’re different, and those we try to get information from put us on an even lower level than the ones they don’t notice. They don’t believe we’re even capable of being a threat, and they misstep more than they might with someone they simply don’t know.”
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