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[violetnce]

[ Violet hair, violet irises, a woman appearing of East Asian decent appears on the video. She's suspending from cloth in her new aerial yoga studio. ]

So, when we are ported in, we are given nanites and powers. We all know that, and I'm not here to rehash the obvious.

[ Her voice is Maldon, Essex, England accented. ]

But what about those of us who have the same powers here as we did our home universes? Do you consider yourselves to still be what you were there? Me, for example, I'm what's called a mutant, meaning my DNA is technically different than a human's. Homo Superior versus Homo Sapien. My mutant DNA means that I had the potential to manifest powers at around puberty -- and I did. Psionics. I am a telepath and telekinetic mutant. And here, I am also telepathic and telekinetic -- but I still consider myself a mutant.

[ Betsy, out. ]

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[fridgeflower]

I don't think we can separate ourselves from being mutants, even if it doesn't mean anything separate from being an imPort here.

It's a specific experience that helps form us.

[violetnce]

Concurred. It may not be the easiest experience back home -- or here -- but it's one I wouldn't trade for anything, both of them. If I'm getting put through hell and back for something I never chose, I'm going to put it to good use.

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[shesalittle]

(The question troubles Karolina. Not because it's something she's thought about before, but, well, why hasn't she?)

I've... if it's...

I don't think a bunch of nanites in our blood makes any of us any closer to being human than we were back home, if that's what you're asking.

[violetnce]

It's more of how we respond to it and act on it, I think. Letting it rule us or ruling it.

[shesalittle]

Sure, but that's the same as anywhere, right?

Like, for me, whether they suppress my powers or enhance them or duplicate them, I'm still human and I'm still another thing besides.