[Cute??? Maelle blinks, slow to process the word, snd by the time it churns in her brain and her cheeks are red Scott's eyes are closed so she's spared. Spared from... something.
She takes the glasses and peers into them before putting them on. Her face feels hot. Must be the sunlight.]
Yeah? Yeah. I mean, it has to be red because of my powers and everything...
[So smooth. What a thing to say after telling a girl that she's cute. He's never been the greatest at flirting and stuff, so he just settles with keeping his eyes closed as he listens to her. The only bad thing is that he can't see her reactions; he doesn't know if he's totally weirded her out. At least she doesn't sound put out or upset? So, he takes that as a good sign.
ANYWAY...]
But it's better than being blind and stuff. That really sucked.
Were you born with the eye thing or did it just happen one day?
[A question that is genuine, but one Maelle hopes buys her a moment or two so her face calms down. She looks at the flowers around them through the glasses. The colors are a bit lost, but it's not awful. Better than being blind, yeah.]
[Technically, he was born with his powers, but they didn't activate until recently. Mutations are weird like that, he really doesn't understand why that happens-- why some people's powers activate immediately while others stay dormant until later on. Probably something that Hank would be able to answer, or maybe one of the other mutants. He wonders how different his life would be if his optic blasts activated when he was really young.
It would probably kind of suck. Did that happen to the other Scott in their timeline?]
...It actually just happened three days ago, before I arrived here. I've been a mutant here longer than back home. [Another strange thing to admit, but it's the truth. He's really only been a mutant for less than a year, even though its dominated his life. It's probably going to in the future as well.]
Oh. That's... I didn't know, I assumed you were... used to it. Like really used to it.
[That's what she gets for not asking. Maelle frowns, but then makes she it's not a deep frown as she takes the glasses off of her face. He probably feels silly, sitting there with his eyes shut.]
Don't jump. I'm going to give you your glasses back.
[And by that, she means carefully placing them on his face.]
[That gets him to smile just a little. He didn't know it would be surprising for others, but guess he's just known as the mutant with the eye beams. He'd probably be shocked in their shoes. Is this a good or bad thing that people are so surprised by this? One one hand, guess he's undoubtedly a mutant, but... that's going to be the thing that people will think about the most when talking with him, huh?
Whatever. It's fine. Probably. It's not like he had much to really say about himself before becoming a mutant.
But he takes his sunglasses back from her, slipping them back on and maybe easing just a bit now that his eyesight has returned. Without destroying anything. He fully trusted Maelle with it, but it's still nice to be able to look at her and everything around them.]
Thanks, they look good. [...And maybe to make things a little more easygoing.] Well, did you like wearing them? Kind of neat, right?
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She takes the glasses and peers into them before putting them on. Her face feels hot. Must be the sunlight.]
Oh... yeah. Pretty red behind these.
[Her face included.]
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[So smooth. What a thing to say after telling a girl that she's cute. He's never been the greatest at flirting and stuff, so he just settles with keeping his eyes closed as he listens to her. The only bad thing is that he can't see her reactions; he doesn't know if he's totally weirded her out. At least she doesn't sound put out or upset? So, he takes that as a good sign.
ANYWAY...]
But it's better than being blind and stuff. That really sucked.
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[A question that is genuine, but one Maelle hopes buys her a moment or two so her face calms down. She looks at the flowers around them through the glasses. The colors are a bit lost, but it's not awful. Better than being blind, yeah.]
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[Technically, he was born with his powers, but they didn't activate until recently. Mutations are weird like that, he really doesn't understand why that happens-- why some people's powers activate immediately while others stay dormant until later on. Probably something that Hank would be able to answer, or maybe one of the other mutants. He wonders how different his life would be if his optic blasts activated when he was really young.
It would probably kind of suck. Did that happen to the other Scott in their timeline?]
...It actually just happened three days ago, before I arrived here. I've been a mutant here longer than back home. [Another strange thing to admit, but it's the truth. He's really only been a mutant for less than a year, even though its dominated his life. It's probably going to in the future as well.]
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[That's what she gets for not asking. Maelle frowns, but then makes she it's not a deep frown as she takes the glasses off of her face. He probably feels silly, sitting there with his eyes shut.]
Don't jump. I'm going to give you your glasses back.
[And by that, she means carefully placing them on his face.]
I made sure not to smudge them.
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[That gets him to smile just a little. He didn't know it would be surprising for others, but guess he's just known as the mutant with the eye beams. He'd probably be shocked in their shoes. Is this a good or bad thing that people are so surprised by this? One one hand, guess he's undoubtedly a mutant, but... that's going to be the thing that people will think about the most when talking with him, huh?
Whatever. It's fine. Probably. It's not like he had much to really say about himself before becoming a mutant.
But he takes his sunglasses back from her, slipping them back on and maybe easing just a bit now that his eyesight has returned. Without destroying anything. He fully trusted Maelle with it, but it's still nice to be able to look at her and everything around them.]
Thanks, they look good. [...And maybe to make things a little more easygoing.] Well, did you like wearing them? Kind of neat, right?