>>5527876>>5527878>>5527900>>5527907"Woah woah woah. Let's take it down a notch, guys." you say. Looks like your first super role is that of super negotiator. 'Sam, he just said it as weird. Blame this Harmony chick for spinning it into something it wasn't." you look at Robert. "I don't get how it's a problem, not by the standards of like, everyone in the school."
"I never said it's a problem, I just said it was weird. Other people said it was a problem--might be a problem! Might be a problem!"
"But why?"
"They thought it might be some kind of joke about Thule."
"Like what?"
"I don't know! I don't think they knew either, they just thought maybe it was some kind of--race thing-" Robert whispers.
"But how? I really don't get it? Just because "fish" and a similar powerset?"
"Um...yeahhhh..."
"That's really it?"
"Hey. These guys bothering you, Robert?" A considerably more athletic Thule kid floats to Robert's side. Shirtless, black shorts, wouldn't pass the dress code of any place that wasn't a school with a superhero population.
"Oh hey Henry! We were just talking, you see this here is Izzy Skenazy, the new kid, and Izzy wants to check out the terrariums, and--"
Henry looks at Sam. "And this is...Rumble, now, right?"
"Right."
"Good."
"Hey, uh, Henry, right?" you ask. "I'm Izzy, and I just got here, like literally just arrived here this morning, and I'm just trying to figure out what was with, you know, the drama here between you guys and Sam."
"I got to get back to work checking the eyes for the class and Robert here needs to get back to checking the minimals."
"You call them minimals?"
"Uh, yeah."
"That's neat, but before you get back to work, can you just clarify what the beef was? Look, I grew up on an island, stuff like this I just don't get."
"Well, I, personally, didn't have any problems with..." Henry lowers his voice. "Rumblefish...I just thought it was weird. But I heard others were offended by it and if all you have to do to keep others from being uncomfortable is slightly alter your supername, I think that you should." Henry looks at Sam. "And not bother other guys about it."
You're starting to wonder if anyone was actually offended...
That's when a blue skinned Thule girl arrives, flanked by two pink skinned Thule.
She floats on a terrarium bubble far larger than the others and far more attention-getting.
"Why hello Henry, Robert, and...friends. I finished up the sun for our little solar system."
"We get graded on putting all the terrariums around Harmony's sun so that the sunlight is used optimally." Robert explains.
"Neat! So they train you not only to make little worlds but figure out how they all fit together." You stare at the sun and see minimal star dragons fighting within the radiance, wrestling shadows matching scale against scale and fang against fang. You probably wouldn't have survived Edith tackling into you if she was that kind of dragon.
"It's so pretty!"
