Were there places where people didn't get powers from nuclear waste?
"And yeah, people get powers from nuclear waste all the time. Or chemical waste. Or science experiments gone wrong. Or magical stuff. I mean, some people just die or mutate horribly, but a lot of people get powers from that kinda stuff. I think it's probably something to do with human DNA, though. Like, there's a lot of predisposition to superpowers in humans on my world. Doesn't take much to unlock it. Most people are capable of being turned into metas."
He shrugged.
"Maybe it's not the same in other worlds but in ours, anything potentially mutagenic can unlock it -- and some people are even born with powers. A natural quirk of their DNA. A bunch of my best friends are mutants. They just were born with it and their powers kicked in around puberty."
He frowned.
"They get treated different, though. Natural mutants. For really stupid reasons."
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"Don't even start on the costumes."
Were there places where people didn't get powers from nuclear waste?
"And yeah, people get powers from nuclear waste all the time. Or chemical waste. Or science experiments gone wrong. Or magical stuff. I mean, some people just die or mutate horribly, but a lot of people get powers from that kinda stuff. I think it's probably something to do with human DNA, though. Like, there's a lot of predisposition to superpowers in humans on my world. Doesn't take much to unlock it. Most people are capable of being turned into metas."
He shrugged.
"Maybe it's not the same in other worlds but in ours, anything potentially mutagenic can unlock it -- and some people are even born with powers. A natural quirk of their DNA. A bunch of my best friends are mutants. They just were born with it and their powers kicked in around puberty."
He frowned.
"They get treated different, though. Natural mutants. For really stupid reasons."