video;

[zerotoawesome]

[Here's a familiar face that hasn't shown up on the network in a while now. Santo is hanging out in front of the monitor, still flexing his hand and making sure that he can move it without any problems. He's still to afraid to try to reassemble himself.]

Hey, nerds! Long time, no see!

Do you wanna know what really sucks? I'll tell you anyway. It's being totally unable to move, so you're stuck on a couch for weeks without any TV to watch. I mean, come on, there's aren't even any old episodes of Law & Order to kill time with.

None of you probably get that though, since you were off having adventures and saving turtles or whatever. Lucky jerks.

Anyway, I've been bored forever now, and really need some kind of entertainment. Anybody wanna spar and see if I die when I break apart? Come on, it'll be fun on a bun.

Or, you know, tell me a story about what's been going on here. Or something from your home. I'm totally good for anything. I mostly just want to make sure everyone isn't dead, so check in, guys. You know... The important ones... Which is everybody, cool?

[He starts to shut off the feed, but then stops for a moment, looking a bit unsure.]

Oh, and... Witch- I mean, Wanda? There's something I need to talk to you about. I kind of meant to do it a while ago, but... Yeah, forced to become a couch boulder.

[OOC: And with this, Santo is officially off hiatus!]

Comments

[video]

[zerotoawesome]

That's so weird...

[Mostly because he thought those were just... Part of a costume mostly, or maybe just part of who she was and not really a power or anything.]

That means that our powers might not be all the way back yet?

[video]

[littlecousin]

Says the guy made of rock.

[It's cool. Some of her best friends are rock monsters.]

I'm sure not feeling a hundred percent yet, even on my hybrid powers.

[video]

[zerotoawesome]

Yeah, but I'm a mutant... I guess you are too, if Namor is, but it could have just been an Atlantean thing. I don't know, I haven't thoroughly studied Atlantean biology. Maybe you can give me a lesson sometime. [Heh.]

[His expression falls just a little when she says that, though. He's definitely a bit uncertain about this whole plan now.] I didn't even notice, since I was glad to be moving again... Maybe I shouldn't hack apart my body just yet.

[video]

[littlecousin]

[Ignoring the innuendo, because she is not a cradle-robber.]

Isn't Utopia built on top of New Atlantis? How can you not know anything about Atlanteans?

[She's amused rather than offended, because Santo.]

...Yeah, maybe you shouldn't.

[video]

[zerotoawesome]

[Hey, he's getting closer to being eighteen now! He's almost been here for a year now, after all.]

I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm made of rocks. I'd literally sink like a stone.

[video]

[littlecousin]

[She's in her mid-30s. Which is basically late teens for an Atlantean but shh.]

And non-hybrid Atlanteans would suffocate out of the water.

[Does she look like she's suffocating, Santo?]

[video]

[zerotoawesome]

So they don't go out of the water, and I don't get into it. I don't know what they can do or whatever.

... I haven't studied many hybrid Atlanteans either. I mean, the only one around is Namor.

[video]

[littlecousin]

Do you even breathe, though? I bet you could stand the pressure all the way down, and you don't have blood, so you wouldn't get the bends coming up.

[So that pretty much makes him better than a regular surface dweller already.]

[video]

[zerotoawesome]

It's not surviving under the water that's a big deal. I mean, I went out that one time the turtle dove to the bottom and all.

[He shrugs.]

It's the coming up part that's hard, since I can't float or swim really.

[video]

[littlecousin]

What, you afraid of a little walk?

[trololo]

[video]

[zerotoawesome]

More like I'm afraid of being stuck in a trench and total darkness for like a hundred years. Also, Utopia was a floating rock. The only way up is for someone to come and get me, and like hell I'm waiting on James Cameron.

[video]

[littlecousin]

...Who? Does he have some kind of water mutation?

[She's from 1992 and would regard The Abyss as a comedy.]

[video]

[zerotoawesome]

Yeah, it's called having a metric crap-ton of money.

[video]

[littlecousin]

If that's a power, call Dr. McCoy, 'cause I've just manifested a secondary mutation.

[video]

[zerotoawesome]

... What, you're loaded?

[video]

[alpha_squad_leader]

[Vic offers a quick apologetic look for the innuendo.]

The Atlanteans weren't the most social. Other than Namor and Crosta, they really didn't come up to Utopia. We left Utopia though.

[video]

[littlecousin]

Who's Crosta?

[She doesn't recognize the name from the Council or anything.]

[video]

[alpha_squad_leader]

He's a classmate of mine and Santo's. An Atlantean mutant. He was kind of a jerk at first but he's warmed up to us all.

[video]

[littlecousin]

An Atlantean was kind of a jerk? I'm shocked.

[By which she means "not shocked."]

[video]

[alpha_squad_leader]

[Victor gives a little laugh.]

Yeah but he had actual reason to be a jerk so we let it slide.

[video]

[littlecousin]

Atlantis...well, we're not too big on non-conformists, as a rule.

[It's her home and she'll defend the place to the death, but she's certainly not blind to its faults.]

[video]

[alpha_squad_leader]

[He nods.]

Namor kinda forced him to come join the X-men despite him wanting to go to live with his father or even stay with his mother. And if non-conformity is really that bad...well, his mutation makes him look pretty different from the majority of Atlanteans.

[video]

[littlecousin]

They call our skin "fishbelly"...not so much to our faces, though--

[Wait, he did what?]

Namor stepped into a custody battle?

[She can count the number of fucks he generally gives about things like that on no hands.]

[video]

[alpha_squad_leader]

He looks even more different. He's about as different looking from the average Atlantean as Santo and I are from the average human.

Well, from what Crosta told us...Namor stepped in and made it worse.

[video]

[littlecousin]

Namor is the king, and if Crosta's your age, he'd have had to start his military service in a few years anyway.

[Nita's from an absolute monarchy. Namor being high-handed doesn't bother her.]

The weird part is Namor even knowing about it. Maybe it was on his radar 'cause Crosta's a mutant.