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[All right Raph has had enough of Leo crawling all over his shell about this so he's going to do a Thing, both to piss off his brother and make a point. They're finally in a place where they can walk around in broad daylight -like they should be allowed to do in the first place- and Leo still insists on meeting people in the middle of the night and skulking around and using FUCKING TEXT OF ALL THINGS RAPH IS NOT USING TEXT THE KEYS ARE TOO SMALL FOR HIS HUGE FINGERS, LEO

So he's just going to. Pose a question.]

Okay people, show of hands. How many of you actually care about the fact that there's a ton of us mutants here?

-Except for Dan, I don't care what you think. [Sorry Dean, he still doesn't remember your stupid name.]

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Another one!

[Have Korra pointing excitedly at you Raph. At least until you say a specific word.]

Mutants?

[She's squinting like you're the damned sun in her face.]

I thought all the brothers were turtle spirits...?

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Uh, no. All the brothers aren't spirits. [does she know his brothers or] Not here, anyway, though some of us are heading in the direction of dead if they don't leave me alone.

[Raphael knows you are creeping on his post, Leo. He can sense it.]

You’re not spirits? [She seems confused and almost heartbroken.]

I met one of you though! I healed the nasty gash on his arm and Mike said he and his brothers were turtle spirits. [Korra had been expecting the brothers to look identical for whatever reason, but Raph was clearly not anything like Mike had been.]

…He lied?

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I can explain...

You lied to me?! [Oh the righteous ire. Visible throbbing forehead vein is very visible.]

You had better start. [Korra’s knees are hugged to her chest on her chair and she is glowering at Mike so hard it hurts the muscles around her eyes.]

I didn't really so much lie as I did just...not correct you when you were wrong.

[Okay...bad start, and he knows it the moment the words stammer out of his mouth.]

...you just, seemed so happy with the idea.

Uh, let me check, yeah- that’s still a lie! [How is her voice reaching the microphone? Oh yeah, the volume of her voice.]

I was happy because I thought I finally had my first spiritual experience. I am not happy that you didn’t “correct” me when I asked you that! [Daggers for eyes and clenched fists, oh dear.]

Did it ever occur to you that you shouldn’t lie to girls, especially if they’re helping you, Mike?

Edited (Pretend I know grammar.) 2013-05-16 20:32 (UTC)

[Lying is one of the many weapons of the ninja!
But you asked me: IF I WAS A GOD! Everyone knows there's only one answer to that!
You smiled when you saw me, I can count the number of times that's happened on one hand.

These are all things that Mike considers saying, but doesn't.
Instead he just sits there, and says nothing.]

You should have told me sooner...
[that murmur just might reach the microphone. Might.]

[Equally as quiet.]

i'm sorry, i didn't mean to hurt you.

[She’ll let that sink in. No way she can be mad at sincerity.]

I understand. [Even though it hurt now, she doesn’t want to admit it.]

I'm tough, I could have taken it. [Instead of learning it randomly from hothead Raph.]

I don't doubt that.

[There's a bit of a smirk beginning to take shape.]

You just would have stopped smiling, is all.

[And don't you see? Mike can't have that. Everyone must smile always. It's his job to make sure that that happens.]

[Don’t make her hide her confused smile behind her kne- Too late.] You thought that you being a spirit was the only reason I was smiling?

[She wants to shove you playfully through a wall Mike.]

We were having fun and had a good conversation, how can anyone not smile? Spirits are boring anyway. [Present company, the giant ass turtle they all lived on, excluded.]

[Actually, yeah...he did think that was the only reason she was smiling. He's a giant turtle! Short of him having saved your life from a bunch of homicidal robots, why would anyone smile at him?!]

Not as boring as meditation?

[It's a hopeful offering. Also a true one.]

Are you kidding? You have to meditate just to get to that level of boring. [Metaphorical coming out of her shell. A shell made out of angry seventeen year old girl emotions.]

So what are mutants? [Since they’re obviously not spirits.]

[Mike just gestures to himself. It's the best explanation he's got at the moment.]

What that means to you I guess really depends on whether or not you're a glass half-empty, or a glass half-full sort of person.

I'm more of a “glass is either empty or full” kinda gal. [All right, she’ll put her chin on her knees now.] So that was one of your brothers asking who cared about mutants? [Completely different attitude from Mike. Korra still has no idea why she thought they would all be so similar.]

Edited (Damn italics habit.) 2013-05-16 21:40 (UTC)

[Mike's face scrunches up a little bit in thought, because trying to define mutant was hard enough.]

Um...sort of? We're more like, I guess...cousins?

[She’ll let slide the “brothers” suddenly becoming “cousins”, but no more Mike. You don’t want to see her when she’s actually angry.]

All right, cousins. It was his red bandanna that tipped me off you might know him. [And now she’s kind of regretting pointing at Raph and gawking at him. Kind of.]

Why the bandannas? Your turtle-ness isn’t exactly a secret you know.

[Would she have preferred Brothers From Other Mothers?
At the mention of Raph's bandanna, Mike can only smirk remembering the fit the other turtle had at seeing a Mike version wearing red.]

I'll have you know that a great many people are often disguised by means of a simple domino mask or pair of glasses! It's like...a thing that works a whole lot more than it honestly should.

[It works in COMICS! That's just ironclad logic right there!]

Plus, we sweat but don't have eyebrows.

No they’re not. [That’s just ridiculous, as if she could ever be fooled by a silly disguise like that, right?] Someone would have to pretty confident to try and pull something like that off.

I had no idea turtles could sweat. But if you do those training runs, I could see how. What is the training for? I’ve been training for bending, but I’m pretty sure you’re not doing that.

Never underestimate the ability of people to turn a blind eye towards someone who looks like they're supposed to be where they are, doing what ever it is they're doing.

[Seriously, confidence can take one anywhere. Even if that one is a mutant turtle in a trench coat and fedora.]

Yeah, I'm not sure if you've noticed? But we're kind of not like regular turtles. What with the teeth, and thumbs and all...

[The sentence kind of dies as Mike considers what he's going to say next. Raph's all but outed their Ninjitsu, but Mike's not entirely comfortable yet giving up his own advantage.]

Here and now's probably not the best place for us to talk about training.

Are you kidding, you're the first normal turtle I've seen. [Don't make her bring up turtle-ducks again.]

You're not hiding anything bad about this "training", are you? [Head tilted and squinting hard.]

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