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(voice.)

Right, so here's the deal. July 31^st is either my 211^th birthday or my 33^rd- give or take 35 years. Either way, I need ideas on what I'm doing because as fun as doing a bar crawl is, the last time I did that I ended up at a monastery in Spain. I'd go into the story, but really it's a very, very long story. So, what is it that you all do in the future do for your birthday?

Regardless, whatever I choose to do, you're all invited. It's no fun celebrating your birthday in the future.

Plus, while I'm here I would like the following things for my birthday:

➝ A lion
➝ A trip to Ireland or India
➝ Apparently you all have perfected the submarine? Yes, I would like that.
➝ And one of those contraptions that let you fly. What's it called, an aeroplane?
➝ Seriously, I would really like a lion.

(ooc; now with more open log!)

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How often that actually works is a bit less common than you'd expect. The ones with whom it does, however, are definite keepers.

People don't think it's amazing?

People think a lot of things about it. "Amazing" is rarely high on the list.

They're all idiots and my opinion counts more anyway.

It wouldn't get me very far if I let them get me down after all these years.

Did they get you down, at first?

When I first turned blue, or when I gained my current features?

[The answer is yes either way, of course.]

(it's somewhat subconscious that cross tentatively touches the side of his face.)

That's a stupid question, forget I asked.

Right.

[It's such an obvious quality, Hank had never really thought to ask, but seeing the momentary parallel perhaps makes him less inclined to pry.]

Of course, any such major upheaval will always take some getting used to, especially when so inescapable.

(Really, who is Cross Marian without half a face.)

... Oh, you weren't born this way. (WELP THERE GOES ANY SORT OF NOTION HE HAD OF A MAMA HENRY.)

[Sorry Cross, the Mamaiest Henry is the one you're talking to.]

Not at first. My mutation has altered itself in a few ways over the course of my life. I never even had fur until I was nineteen!

...Which was my own fault, by the way.

In the name of science, I presume.

Well, something like that.

[There were spies. It was the '70s. You know how these things go, sometimes you just gotta ingest your serum to keep it out of enemy hands, but hadn't considered the effects on your mutant biology.]

Well, at least it didn't make you puke green.

[He lets out a light chuckle.]

Thank god for small favors! I'd probably have to dye in that case, and can you imagine the trouble?

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I'd think you would be the kind of guy that wore it proudly.

It's easy with a bright, beautiful blue! To suddenly have such a ghastly shade thrust upon you would be far more difficult to tolerate.

Maybe it's good that only one of us has this shade of red.

Why, afraid of a little competition? A nice red I could perhaps work with, despite how it may require me to fend off Summers boys at every turn.

Could you really handle this shade? You do have to live up to the stereotypes, mind you.

The fiery passion inherent to such a soul? I could hope to try it, but what success I may reach is questionable.

Oh, I grew up being told that I had the hair of the devil.

Funny.

I've known a lot of redheads in my time, but I wouldn't say any of them were actually the devil.

You didn't grow up in Victorian England.

Well, if you want to drag technicalities into it!

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