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[littlecousin]

[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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[littlecousin]

[Thinkiiiiing...]

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

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[shorttempered]

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

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[littlecousin]

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

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[shorttempered]

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.]

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[littlecousin]

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

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

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[shorttempered]

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.]

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[littlecousin]

[She doesn't mind at all.]

I'm an Atlantean-human hybrid.

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

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[shorttempered]

[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?

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[littlecousin]

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.]

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[shorttempered]

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.]

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[littlecousin]

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]

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[shorttempered]

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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[littlecousin]

To be honest, you're one of the only people I've talked to whose world even has an Atlantis.

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[shorttempered]

Really? Aquarus was a big name where I was from. Everyone knew of Atlantis through him.