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[littlecousin]

[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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[littlecousin]

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.]

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[alphatar]

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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[littlecousin]

You don't get to take people's identities away from them, even if you don't like how they see themselves.

[Even if she doesn't usually show it, Nita is just as stubborn as Korra.]

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[alphatar]

Well, if they’re comfortable with it. [She shrugged her shoulders.] I mean I’m comfortable with bender, but that’s just me. [Arch-enemies that had attempted to make the term bender a negative reference aside, there was never issue like that back home.]

As long as no one starts calling me meta-human or mutant, I guess I can be okay with it.