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[goldtoxicity]

Sooooo...

Here's a question. What's the weirdest thing one of your fans has ever done? Or, like, the weirdest piece of content you've ever found?

Because I just found there are bwitter accounts dedicated to trying to prove I'm not actually dating my girlfriend? I thought it was a joke but they're in like, a flame war with someone whose really into it... Like, I know I shouldn't be reading it, but I just can't look away.

[ oh, right, wait, also need to be responsible. ]

Oh, right, almost forgot. Hi, I'm Josh Foley. I work at De Chima General. If you've got weird medical needs or something you need fixed, I'm your dude.

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[optikon]

[ not something that could help, he thinks. but.. ] I’ve never heard the term biokinetic before.

[goldtoxicity]

It's like a mix of telepathy and telekinesis but for the human body. [ he might be a genius in biology but he's not a wordsmith, sorry friend. ] So like, if you have a cut then I can heal that cut. Or if you've got some weird disease then I can rewrite your system to, um.. not.

[optikon]

[ instinctively, there's a part of him that recoils, shuddering, at the idea, thinking of the flesh and jared hopworth and the pain of the boneturner reaching in to remove his ribs. but this isn't.. home. his disconnection from-- from everything would be reason enough to believe that even if he couldn't believe the normal sky and the people and the lack of the panopticon on the horizon.

this person is not connected to the flesh. he is.. something else altogether. ]

To what extent can you cause these changes? [ and then, because it occurs to him in some distant, untraumatized part of his brain that he's being very abrupt and martin would click his tongue at him: ] If you don't mind my asking.

[goldtoxicity]

I haven't really pushed my limits here but back home I can make changes on a genetic level and revive the dead.

[ he doesn't mind the abruptness, clearly. this has been normal to him since well before he arrived here, healer first and dumb jock second. but at least here it's of his own volition. ]

So, like... messed up and unnatural mutations or growths, breakdown in cellular integrity, and just like, generic healing stuff is my speciality.

[optikon]

So you had your abilities at home? How did you obtain them?

[ at least it sounds as if he isn't inclined toward torture. ]

[goldtoxicity]

I'm a mutant - homo superior, whatever you wanna call it. Powers usually kick in at puberty.

[optikon]

[ a what. ]

I see. As you might imagine, it's an unfamiliar concept to me.

[ and it's unlikely to be something that can help with his dietary issues, unfortunately. ]

[goldtoxicity]

Oh yeah, I could get into the nitty gritty of it but it boils down to, like, being born with latent superpowers.

[ And people hating you.

a lot. ]

If there's something you want me to take a look at, I can take a look at it.

[optikon]

What percent of the population is homo-superior? [ using 'mutant' seems.. derogatory? but maybe it doesn't have negative connotations where this person is from. ]

Thank you, but no. I don't believe you could assist with my particular complications.

[goldtoxicity]

Right now, where I'm from? Roughly 0.01%. That's after multiple extinction events, though. We made up about 0.5 percent before everything went super bad.

[ but that's fair. he shrugs. ]

Gotcha. Somebody might be able to. We've got some pretty talented magicians and geniuses.

[optikon]

[ extinction events. ]

What do you mean, extinction events? People don't generally survive those.

[ that's the purpose of the extinction, so far as he knows. ]

[goldtoxicity]

They sure don't.

[ a little bitterly. ]

It might be the wrong phrase, but uh... Terrorists killed about sixteen million of us. And, then... we had someone use magic to strip our powers from us and turn us human. That took out 99 percent of the remaining population. We recently experienced a plague which... I don't even know how many that killed, but, like, at this point any loss is substantial.

[optikon]

[ jesus christ. ]

I'm sorry. [ he should leave it at that, sign off, not.. think about it, poke at it. but, god, he feels like he's starving and he knows there's something here and the watcher knows it, too.

and perhaps, more importantly: ] My own world is experiencing something similar right now. [ not an extinction, that would be kinder. and it's his fault. ]

[goldtoxicity]

Oh, dude, I'm sorry... That sucks.

[ it stings less knowing that things get better - that life and death are playthings, largely because of his powers and the powers of four other mutants. but he's not there yet, can still barely process it.

and it's not like he can bring it up after that. he scratches his cheek. ]

[optikon]

That's certainly a way of putting it.

You said that magic is a part of your world as well?

[goldtoxicity]

Yeah. I dunno much about it, but it's a big thing. Guessing its in yours too?

[optikon]

No, not as such. Anything that resembles magic is due to other forces at work.

[goldtoxicity]

Oh.

[ honestly the line between science, magic, and just someone being stupidly powerfully psychic is pretty thin so... he Gets It. ]

What other forces, uh, if you don't mind me asking?

[optikon]

Fear-based eldritch entities from another dimension. There are fourteen that we know of, with a fifteenth possibly being born.

[goldtoxicity]

[ uh ]

Fear-based...?