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Do you think people are too sensitive? Or that Superman isn't so super? Think cats aren't cute? The Beatles are overrated? Love pineapple on pizza? Maybe you just don't like chips rly. Even the best of us have some controversial opinions. Let people know what a monster you are.

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to tell them why they're wrong, validate a kindred spirit, or just troll them for caring about such a silly-ass thing in the first place.

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I mean, on the most basic evolutionary level, tears are just how you get dust out of your eyes. Which kinda makes you wonder how they got so tied up in emotions. Some kind of weird pain response, maybe.

[This is a very young human he's talking to. Can't be much more than eighteen or nineteen, and she's on the short side. There's a kind of quiet, ready fearlessness about her, though, like she's seen some things teenage mortals don't usually experience.]

You're...not a human, though, right? [She can usually tell, but she's not sure what exactly he is.] So maybe it's different where you're from.

[Thor head-tilts with a shifting of his shoulders that is almost a shrug.] We're... related to humans. A long while back. We're just... heavier and with a bit more magic. And we live longer.

I mean...a lot of things are related to humans. Bananas are genetically pretty close to humans. You're definitely not a banana.

[This in no way supports or refutes her theory about their respective cultures, though.]

I know fae don't process emotions the way humans do. They'll laugh at funerals, cry and scream at weddings. I think they make a distinction with respect to the intensity of a feeling, more so than the type.

[Laughing, Thor answers,] We're genetically close enough to humans to be capable of procreating.

As far as emotions, they seem similar enough? Maybe we're a bit more... vibrant with our emotions, because we've lived so long? More battle-ready and... intense, but not in the ways you'd mentioned. I think it's societal? Just... what's encouraged?

Now there's a terrible pick-up line! [She's joking, fully aware he's not chatting her up.]

Although humans seem to be compatible enough to reproduce with a lot of other humanoids, which I'm pretty sure begs a whole lot of questions about the origins of species across the universe.

People always say as you get older you just become more of what you already were. Maybe that's true of immortal-ish people, too. That'd explain a lot about vampires. [A little ugh face, there. She has yet to meet a vampire who didn't try to personally victimize her, which has left a bad impression.]

[Thor's laugh is hearty; he's needed a good laugh for some time.] I assure you, I intended no such thing.

Ah, never met one. You've had trouble with them?

Yeah, I think we have an insurmountable age gap here. You seem okay, though. For like, friend stuff.

[Not that she excels at 'friend stuff', herself. She's got a lot in common with Loki that way.]

The first vampire I ever met looked like a kid about my age. He was lonely, and I was in a bad place, and he wanted to make me his companion for eternity or whatever. Trouble is, as romantic as that sounds, it involves complete mental, physical, and spiritual subjugation so it was not a fun time. My uncle had to save me.

The second vampire I dealt with was just an asshole.

[Thor's smile dims for a split second, at the idea of insurmountable age gaps. He and Jane... well, that wasn't a topic for right now, but he'd hoped she could eat of Idunn's apples and join him on Asgard. But she... also certainly had other interests, and he was trying to meet up with her more frequently.]

[All of this though, does not involve Courtney, so after that fraction of a second, he's back to smiling. She looked only just out of adolescence anyway, so certainly the last time Thor, who was an adult, had looked so young, was many hundreds of years ago.]

It would appear I am lucky to have never met one. I-- apologize, for bringing up such memories. I did not intend any upset to you.

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