[ It's a little wry, more teasing than self-effacing, but her attention drops away from Jaime's face. Her exposed nails scratch at one another, fingers pinching at the nailbeds. ]
So... it's always been this way, in this world, but we weren't always called imPorts. We had a different name at first. "Metahumans." But, a name like that doesn't work for everyone. It's not like everyone who shows up started human, or stays that way. So, imPort, that's something I came up with, to talk about everyone; then my dad started using it, and since he was actually, uh, kind of important, in the early days, everybody else started using it, too. Within a couple years, nobody ever used "metahuman" at all.
That's how I know she didn't find this world, already like this. They wouldn't have been calling us that, if she hadn't interfered.
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[ It's a little wry, more teasing than self-effacing, but her attention drops away from Jaime's face. Her exposed nails scratch at one another, fingers pinching at the nailbeds. ]
So... it's always been this way, in this world, but we weren't always called imPorts. We had a different name at first. "Metahumans." But, a name like that doesn't work for everyone. It's not like everyone who shows up started human, or stays that way. So, imPort, that's something I came up with, to talk about everyone; then my dad started using it, and since he was actually, uh, kind of important, in the early days, everybody else started using it, too. Within a couple years, nobody ever used "metahuman" at all.
That's how I know she didn't find this world, already like this. They wouldn't have been calling us that, if she hadn't interfered.