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[Hello turtle, it's Nita, looking blond and perky, per the usual. She is, unbeknownst to the object of her not-very-complicated plan, helping.]

Who here can get hit by a speeding tractor trailer and shake it off? ...Or for those of you from universes that don't have cars, uh...get hit by an angry dragon, I guess.

[She realizes that maybe that's a weird question, and adds:]

...Asking for a friend.

[No, really. Hi, Dr. Banner!]

Not for anything nefarious, unless you think meeting new people is nefarious.

[And in that case, she can't help you.]

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I can. I'd prefer not to if I can help it, but I can.

[Hell entire planets don't stand a chance against him.]

...Why are you asking?

[Nita really did not give adequate consideration to the fact people might want to know why she was asking.]

Um. It's not really my place to say? But it's nothing bad...

[Save insofar as being an uncontrollable green rage machine is bad...]

[It's a fair question!]

Are you trying to stop someone? Or does your friend just like to hurl Buick's at people and is looking for volunteers?

I'm not trying to stop anyone.

[Nita's not really thinking about stopping the Hulk so much as finding people Bruce won't be jumpy around, because she's just like that.]

So your friend has an affinity for Buicks, then?

[And lampposts, and city buses, and basically anything within arm's reach...]

It's not like that... [exactly] ...my friend's just kind of jumpy about regular people.

There are "regular people" here?

People with no powers? Yeah.

[...A few of them.]

...Huh. I had no idea. [Learn something new every day.]

And it's not like the kedan are all that powerful, either.

[Super-strong, super-durable shapeshifters apparently count as "not that powerful."]

They're stronger than they look.

Well, they're stronger than humans, yeah....

[Which is not that impressive, come on, dude.]

Most other species are stronger than humans. That I've come across, anyway...

[Thinkiiiiing...]

Yeah, all the ones I know about off the top of my head are tougher than humans.

It makes you wonder... Why humans are built so much weaker than pretty much everything else.

Where I'm from, it's 'cause everyone else is from rougher environments or has been genetically engineered. Or both.

True... Give us a couple generations, I guess. [Tries not to think about how he'll get to live long enough to check that hypothesis.]

Humans are pretty much the new kids on the block, yeah.

[It's cool, her (genetic) mother is human! ...Being a clone is complicated.]

If you don't mind me asking, what race are you? [Oh my god, Mark, you can't just ask people why they're white.]

[She doesn't mind at all.]

I'm an Atlantean-human hybrid.

[Which is the best thing to be, tbh.]

[Blink. Blinkblink.

Mark might be staring at the screen a little more closely than he would normally, but he's trying to figure out what part of you is Atlanean.]

Like... the fish people under the sea Atlantean?

Uhhhh people only call us "fish" when they're trying to be insulting. We're mammals. Homo mermanus.

[Because mammals with gills TOTALLY MAKES SENSE, MARVEL.

But hey, at least she doesn't have to give the "yes Atlantis is real" speech.]

Oh, uh... Where I'm from, they're literally fish people. Like think giant fish with arms and legs. [...And breasts if they're female.]

There are legends about older races, ones who don't have common ancestry with humans, at least not for a few hundred million years, but no one's seen them since before my people were writing things down. We have no idea if they were ever real or not.

[Spoiler: they are.

also why would fish have breasts]

Well they're real where I'm from. I don't think they have any... human-looking people down there.

[Because why not?]

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