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[vexant]

Is anyone going to explain who the hell dropped in Xavier's Institute but forgot to bring along - what, literally any mutant?

( most people might start with a hello. julian just starts with a finger pointing back at the manor off behind him. )

Or, fine, anyone but Jean. ( because he's only half counting her as is. )

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[vexant]

I've led X-Men squads before, I can handle not getting a teenager killed during a training exercise.

( well. as long as things keep quiet like this. no guarantees if sentinels start popping up all over the place, but that'd hardly be julian's fault. )

[decodex]

Are you saying ex-men? Like formerly men? Because that’s a really specific subset of people…

[vexant]

.. you know what? Nevermind.

I don't have to explain myself to idiots.

[decodex]

Good rule of thumb, yeah.

Have fun, kids.

[codicies]

ohhhhhmygod for someone who isn't my real dad you sure know how to be embarrassing

[decodex]

Need me to pack you a lunch, sweetie?

[codicies]

[ muffled groan into hands ]

Are you doing a bit or do you seriously not know who the X-Men are?

[decodex]

Uh, both, actually.

But, yeah, no, we don't have that in my world. At best, X-Men sorta sounds like a brand of men's athletic wear.

[codicies]

Really? They're like, the faces of the Mutant Rights movement back home. Who represents mutants in your world?

[decodex]

We're still working on human rights in my world, bud. Pretty sure people would implode if non-humans came out of the woodwork asking for rights too.

Are powers really that common? And is 'mutant' like a derogatory thing, or...?

[codicies]

It's not derogatory, it's a classification. I don't know exactly how it works, but it refers to something specific in their DNA.

So your world doesn't have any other superheroes? Just one?

[ It sounds so... statistically unlikely. ]

[decodex]

As far as we know, just one.

( and they're barely heroes. they don't have a cape or a mask!!

it's true that they saw a guy with a spider logo on his chest once, but that was in another dimension. they never even got around to talking to him. )

If anyone's got something going on with their DNA, they're being really lowkey about it.

[vexant]

It's called the X-Gene. Every mutant has it, regardless of what their mutation is. Usually right around the onset of puberty, we start developing our mutation. Mercury was a high school cheerleader, 'til she woke up and found her body'd changed to a liquid, mercury-like substance. She's living metal. There's some that are more obvious, some that are more subtle.

[codicies]

Yeah, that's it. Sometimes it's hard to tell who's actually considered a mutant if you don't have that info. Like, I thought Miss Marvel wasn't a mutant, but lately I've been seeing photos of her with an X-Men uniform on, so maybe I was wrong.

[vexant]

News to me.

( he hasn't seen her with an x-men uniform on, but it's whatever. weirder crap has happened. )

But it's possible. We've got alien mutants, why not an inhuman?

[codicies]

Probably really low-key, then? I seriously can't imagine a world that just... doesn't have mutants in it.