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krouse ([personal profile] equivo) wrote in [community profile] etraya 2024-06-02 06:40 am (UTC)

Convenient way to reconnect with anyone from your plane you missed.

[ Or to coax them out if they were keeping it to themselves, for whatever reason. Krouse sort of wishes he had a similar trick. ]

And you wouldn't believe how messed up Earth is.

No one's sure why we did in the Neanderthals. For our more recent extinctions, it was hunting, then ruining the environment. You might be wondering why we'd ruin our own environment, which is an intelligent question with a stupid answer: it's making a few people rich.

Our humans do see themselves as the top of the food chain, but not all of us agree on that, which is where the making non-humans seems to mostly come in. None of them have managed to get to a point where we end up the Neanderthals, but it's a possibility.

For the people not made in a basement lab, it's not genetic, as far as anyone can tell. No one's entirely sure where powers come from, but they started showing up around thirty years ago. Powers trigger when someone with the potential to become a parahuman experiences enough stress to develop them.

Sometimes the trigger goes wrong. That's where the mutation comes in.

It sounds like your universe ended up with a higher quality homo sapiens.

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