tushanshu | Video; In which cold weather is clearly the best!

[Everyone gets to see two familiar faces this time, with a couple of twists. Dick (the elder) is sitting down in the chair, wearing a bright red coat with white trim, a hat of the same color, and of course, a beard to match the whole thing. It’s pulled down, though, so you can see his face. And his wonderful assistant, Zatanna, is standing behind him, dressed up like the most beautiful elf there is. They’re both looking pretty happy about this.]

It’s getting cold out! And what does cold mean? Holiday fun, of course. So I, and my amazing elf assistant here, have decided that Santa Claus needs to come to the turtle. [See what he did there? See it? Okay, good.]

And so it is with pleasure that we let everyone know-- [He gets cut off as Zatanna leans forward, and he looks up at her.]

[The fifteen-year-old elf bends down until she's level with his ear, covering her mouth so she could whisper something secretively to him.]

Really?

[She nods, and offers a playful wink.] Trust me. I know a guy who knows the guy personally.

[Dick looks back at the screen, and his voice drops into a perfect, heavy Russian accent.] Is this better?

[She practically has to bite her tongue to keep from bursting out laughing. Impressive. She should've known.] It'll do.

[Dick grins.] I’d like to invite everyone to come over to the Wood sector, where we have a little holiday party going on.

[He stops, laughing and shaking his head. He has to drop the Russian accent.] Okay, I can’t keep that one up, but I tried! Anyway, we’ve got a small thing going on in a café in the Wood sector, with some cakes and gingerbread-ish things, and some hot drinks. And what would Santa be without his...

[He holds up a huge, red velvet-like bag.] Bag, yes! And it is filled with little odds and ends, so there are presents for all!

[Dick sets the bag down, and pulls the beard back up with a grin.] And to all, a good... day? Yeah, that still works. To all, a good day! Remember, café in the Wood sector, we’ll be here awhile!

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Your powers were chosen for you? How does that even work?

I thought mutants were just like most metahumans. Born with their powers.

[Except in cases like Wally, who literally science-ed up his super speed, but he was a special case.]

We are. That's what I meant.

[She's not going to go into the knowing stuff details. That was just super messy, and not necessary right now.]

...oh. Right.

[And she gets it. Her bad.]

It must be nice to be here on the Turtle, then. All the locals are basically like us, too. Shapeshifters.

Shapeshifters tend to get a bad rep back where I'm from. There was one in particular... Incredibly deadly woman. Smart, too. I never met her, as far as I knew. But... [She's got to appreciate that.]

Yeah. I gotta say, that's a nice change from being an endangered species.

That sucks.

I know what you mean, though. Metahumans aren't exactly rare, but I've never felt like a majority before. It's a strange feeling.

...Is it, by any chance, roughly 10% of the population? [That's what it was in mutants. Before the Decimation.]

If even that.

Plus, you can't really lump all of them together. I mean, some of the people with powers back home got them from being part of a different species or world.

We have a few of those, too. [Don't ask about Shatterstar, she's not even fully sure about Shatterstar. Shatterstar. Or Longshot, actually, while you were at it.

Just don't ask about X-Factor. Pretend it's Fight Club or something.]

Unfortunately, that doesn't stop people from lumping regardless.

Yeah, I know.

My mom and dad [And, by genetics, her as well] were technically more homo magi than metahuman...but, honestly, I don't really mind the lumping so much. There's nothing wrong with being either.

Homo magi. Hmmm. I think I like that a lot better than Homo superior.

So do I.

Slightly less braggy, for one.

Exactly. No wonder regular humans hate mutants so much.

Everything else aside, of course.

What do you mean 'everything else aside'?

I mean, I get the feeling that our words are more than a little different...but what could they find so bad about mutants besides the whole having powers thing?

Because humans fear change. They fear people that aren't like them. Deep down, there's envy and self-loathing. Humans will always fear what they don't understand. It's terrible.

But I've lived to see history repeat itself, and I don't want it to come to that.

It's that the powers are random, and some people will use theirs for evil. They don't get the great powers, great responsibility thing.

Not all humans. Some of them prefer to follow metahumans around celebrities instead.

...although, come to think of it, I'm not really sure I like the notion of being labeled not human. We are. We're just...different.

Oh, some of the mutants tend to get that treatment. Allison Blaire's a pop-star. Betsy Braddock was a model. Emma Frost is... Emma Frost.

But I like that reasoning. A lot. Unfortunately, mutants are definitely a different species.

How so? Like, did they come from a different planet? Like Mars or Krypton or wherever Captain Marvel flew in from?

No, those are the aliens. We've got the X-Gene in our 23rd chromosome.

So you are human. Just...a different kind of human.

Mutants.

Fine. Mutant. If you insist.

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