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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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Oh. [That’s a ‘No idea what you just said, but I’ll roll with it for now.’ Oh.]

[”Growing” is a headshake. That would be like trying to use waterbending to get someone’s hair to grow faster.]

…Oh.

[Popular word today.

Remembering how dim Amon’s light had been when he had healed that kedan back at the satellite crash, that made sense to her. Not that Korra wanted to address it, but: Nita.]

That’s probably because he had to learn it on his own. [Korra had a teacher to instruct her and guide her through the ins and outs of healing, and it had come a long way since Katara had saved the world over seventy years ago.]

[No big deal.]

I figured.

[She laughs.]

He got frustrated and dropped the water all over me. That helped.

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[Picturing Amon, the man that brought fear into her life, being clumsy actually got Korra to laugh.]

Not everyone’s meant to be a healer. Some waterbenders can’t even do it. [She was sure Tarrlok couldn’t, or at least hasn’t, from the way she heard the explanation of how he lied about chi blockers attacking both him and her. He had been healed by another.]

Hey, if I had my airbending under control, I’d fly you myself. Only fair, right? [Nita did give her a lift when she needed it.]

He...doesn't really seem to have that kind of personality, huh?

[Nita likes him, but Nita is friendship Easy Mode, and even she knows the guy is not functional.]

...Why is that one slower to come back than the rest?

[itp: Nita knows practically nothing about bending and assumes it's basically like being a mutant.]

No, he doesn’t at all. I think my boyfriend had it right when said “This is guy is insane.”

[Mako: Hitting nails on the head left and right.]

Oh it’s back, I just have a learning block for airbending. Mastering it is a lot harder for me since it’s opposite to my personality. At least that’s what my teacher said.

Oh.

[Well that makes sense, she guesses.]

My powers are pretty much all physical, so I never had to practice that way.

Trade you.

[Korra, STOP.]

[She'd be a better Avatar, let's not even kid ourselves.]

Ha, you wish.

Fine, fine. I can take a rain check the next time I’m in deep water.

[Double entendre?]

Hey. You can waterbend. Let me rescue the people who need it.

[A small snicker.]

Sure, sure. Just remember to save some of them for me. The Avatar has to look good too.

"The Avatar" would make a pretty good superhero name, and I don't think it's taken.

[Wanna join the New Warriors?

Answer: no.]

The clothing requirement looks a bit too constrictive for me. Superhero sounds nice, but I’ll stick with the whole Avatar thing. Besides, I don’t like the term meta-human and people calling me that would just be- ugh, no.

[That’s without even mentioning secret identities. To Korra, those were just silly.]

[Korra, have you been talking to the DC crowd?]

Nobody calls us "meta-humans" where I'm from.

[And the Marvel crowd a bit too.]

So you’re from the “mutant” one then, huh? [Korra had never had an easy time figuring out which heroes came from which earth.]

I don’t get why we can’t just be humans, Atlanteans, and stuff. [Stuff would include ninja turtles.] Why all the M-words?

Well, "mutant" actually means something specific. Like, how... [oh god what does she actually know about bending] ...only Water Tribe people can be waterbenders, only certain people are mutants, and if you're not born that way, you can't become one.

And--not so sure about this one, 'cause it's not my universe--"meta-human" covers everyone with powers, the same way you're all benders, but you break it down farther by what kind of bender you are.

[Questionable Analogy Time with Nita.]

[Korra tried to follow, her eyebrows unable to decide which one should be raised.]

But even benders are humans before anything else. The way everyone else uses those words, it sounds like they’re treating them differently and it doesn’t make sense to me.

People are just people, right?

[As far as Nita's concerned, but some folks just gotta make things difficult.]

There are groups like the Equalists back where I'm from. They don't let people be "just people." Vic and Santo could have problems walking down the street, 'cause they look different.

OH.

[Now it clicks.]

I mean, they might be mistaken for spirits on my world, but that’s not a bad thing. So just because they can do something different?

Sometimes people without powers get scared. I guess it's understandable, but turning into Nazis because of it isn't right.

[Wait.]

...Nazis were bad guys from my world who were trying to exterminate anyone who was different.

[Questionable WWII History Time with Nita.]

Sort of like the Equalists and Amon trying to take away people’s bending. Just without the killing part. [By that logic, Equalists were “almost” Nazis when Korra tried to place them in Nita’s world.]

So those people who use those M-words that way turn into these Nazis and kill people?

[What the hell is in the drinking water on your world?]

It's not about the words themselves. Some people are perfectly nice. I mean, we call ourselves mutants [well, she doesn't, mostly, but she's technically one even if most mutant-bashers don't want to tangle with Atlantis] and that's nothing bad.

If I called you a huge jerk, it would be different from someone who actually didn't like you calling you that, y'know?

I think this is all a cleverly disguised ploy so you can call me a huge jerk.

[Joking judging from the ridiculous look on her face.]

Mutant and meta-human still don’t sound right. I mean bender sounds cool, those: not so much.

Oh man, busted.

[trololololo]

"Mutant" means "changed."

[As does "meta," but ask Nita what she knows about ancient languages. (Spoiler: nothing.)]

And we are. Mutants didn't exist until about a hundred years ago. We're something new.

[With a few exceptions because nothing in comics is ever straightforward.]

You know, some of the people from that world think mine is complicated.

[Korra's mouth just makes a line that pushes out her cheeks a bit and then shakes her head.]

I don't think mutant or meta-human should be used on the turtle. We're all away from that here, so why bother?

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