[Stan watches, to make sure they're alright, but he lets them get up on their own. Sometimes that feels important.]
What, a Mutant? Yeah. It's uh. Kinda weird to explain? I can do a lotta stuff though! Like here, lemme get that--
[He waves his hand in front of their face, even though he's a good foot or two away from them, and just like that the grime wipes off like it's nothing.]
There ya go! [He smiles wide at first, but...it fades.] ...Since it's not somethin' I can prove most of the time, I used to get a lotta jerks like that too. People sayin' I was "broken" or "screwed up" just 'cause I couldn't use my powers on command.
[He avoids saying what those powers actually are, not so much because he wants to keep it a secret, but because he doesn't trust that they will lucidly dream once they know what's happening, and he doesn't want to get knocked back to his own head from them waking up. There have been too many times when he's flat-out said "you're dreaming" and it was enough to make them jolt awake and hurtle him across town.]
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What, a Mutant? Yeah. It's uh. Kinda weird to explain? I can do a lotta stuff though! Like here, lemme get that--
[He waves his hand in front of their face, even though he's a good foot or two away from them, and just like that the grime wipes off like it's nothing.]
There ya go! [He smiles wide at first, but...it fades.] ...Since it's not somethin' I can prove most of the time, I used to get a lotta jerks like that too. People sayin' I was "broken" or "screwed up" just 'cause I couldn't use my powers on command.
[He avoids saying what those powers actually are, not so much because he wants to keep it a secret, but because he doesn't trust that they will lucidly dream once they know what's happening, and he doesn't want to get knocked back to his own head from them waking up. There have been too many times when he's flat-out said "you're dreaming" and it was enough to make them jolt awake and hurtle him across town.]