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[Nita is looking perkier than she has since the Malicant mess started. She's also looking moist, since, with the return of her gills, she's been spending most of her time underwater, and only came up now to make a network post. And, last of all, she's looking concerned, because there's something that's been bothering her, and she just can't figure it out.]

I'm not even close to a magical theorist or anything, and there's gotta be someone who knows more about this stuff than I do... I have a question.

How did some of us lose things we always had? Like, I understand, sort of, how Captain America--sorry, Cap, I'm gonna use you as an example--could lose his powers, 'cause he got them from an experiment. I even kind of get how mutant powers like my ankle wings could go away, because they're genetic but they're not really normal. But my gills--and the other Atlanteans' gills--closed up! That's not special! Every member of our species has those!

What's going on with this place that it can take away ordinary things?

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[he doesn't often trawl the responses to something, unless he wants to check no one's said the same thing as him beforehand, but he's sort of curious about what Nita asked so.]

I'm not sure the Kedan are actually from here. [pause, er.] Or, if they are they might not be the majority species here.

Yeah, people at that sucky city were basically human, right?

[She'd noticed it at the time, sort of, but Nita doesn't really pay attention to non-immediate stuff, and putting it into context usually requires someone to prime the pump for her.]

But there are like a dozen sentient species on Earth, so that's not saying much.

[To be quite honest, he hadn't thought much about the Kedan's history and whether or not they were technically "foreigners" too before, and that revelation made him feel like a total dick.] What makes you say that?

[Mark arches a brow at Namorita's comment. He was unfamiliar with the concept of Earth having so many species on it.]Maybe where you're from, but I can only think of three on ours. And there's only two for the third species... [Crap, Oliver's Flaxan AND Viltrumite, so that's technically four... ah well, close enough.]

During all the investigations, a team of us went out to one of the cemeteries. I'm no coroner, but the bodies there all looked pretty humanlike to me. Between that and the people at Atam, I'd wonder if there are any kedan around off Tu Vishan. [at this point he'd question whether the Emperor is kedan herself.]

Besides, even if they're not basing it off what's the norm on this planet, everyone I've spoken to here is either human themself or comes from a world where humans are a common species. It might be the easiest common denominator to use as a template.

So many humans is pretty weird when you think about it. There aren't many humans anywhere but Earth. It can't be random. I mean, just looking at our universe, you'd expect a lot more Kree and Shi'ar.

[Just as well, really, given that both of those species' default setting is "warlike, racist jackass."]

I'd expect Skrulls, if anything.

[that said, there could be an asston of Skrulls in Keeliai and no one would know.

Anyhow, he taps his chin thoughtfully] Maybe if the majority species here is human - or humanlike - it's easier to bring similar species over.

Nah, the Skrulls got almost wiped out after the Annihilation Wave and not being able to take Earth. You'd think they'd have learned about invading us. The Kree seem to have figured it out.

[Don't invade planets full of superbeings.]

Uuuh question: what are Kree, Shi'ar and Skrulls?

Aliens. The Kree look like humans except some of them are blue, the Shi'ar kinda have a bird theme going but look basically human, too, and the Skrulls are shapeshifters, but they're green humanoids in their natural form.

Got it.

I think there might actually be something to this. Like--I'm sorry I didn't catch your name--said, it might just be easiest to pull humanlike beings here. I'm only half-human, but the other half is.... pretty close to being human in terms of the looks and the physiology. And I don't see anyone like Allen here.

Uh, he's a friend from back home. An alien. Unopan, to be exact.

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