Part alien, yeah. Descended from humans that were experimented on by the Kree, with latent superpowers that only unlock from exposure to terrigen crystals. It's supposed to be this whole... important ceremony, but —
[ she stops for a moment, something painful in her expression that's quickly swallowed down. it's hard to talk about afterlife and what her mother had done without bearing the brunt of that guilt. ]
A bunch of terrigen crystals got dumped in the ocean, bled out in the water. They got into the food supply, fish oil vitamins, that sort of this. People all over, all suddenly sprouting powers they were never prepared for.
Pure terrigen crystals — if you break them, there's a mist that comes out. Triggers terrigenesis in Inhumans, makes anybody else cough a little bit. They're hard to replicate, though. The ones that got made wound up corrupted, I guess; anybody who breathed in the mist from those who wasn't Inhuman wound up dead.
[ the diviner's metal turned their bodies into stone which then cracked and broke into pieces, but you know, whatever. ]
My mom decided she was going to kill as many people as possible with those crystals. I got them away from her... but they wound up in the water. Nobody died, but nobody was expecting to go through that just from popping their daily vitamin, you know?
[ it's half jiaying's fault for trying to kill all of humanity, half daisy's fault for trying to stop her. ]
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[ she stops for a moment, something painful in her expression that's quickly swallowed down. it's hard to talk about afterlife and what her mother had done without bearing the brunt of that guilt. ]
A bunch of terrigen crystals got dumped in the ocean, bled out in the water. They got into the food supply, fish oil vitamins, that sort of this. People all over, all suddenly sprouting powers they were never prepared for.
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A coming of age thing. Okay.
[ he can act like a human figuring this out. it's all new to him anyway. ]
An accident? Or... [ he looks sheepish. ] Sorry, just trying to get the whole picture here.
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[ her mouth twists for a moment, considering. ]
Pure terrigen crystals — if you break them, there's a mist that comes out. Triggers terrigenesis in Inhumans, makes anybody else cough a little bit. They're hard to replicate, though. The ones that got made wound up corrupted, I guess; anybody who breathed in the mist from those who wasn't Inhuman wound up dead.
[ the diviner's metal turned their bodies into stone which then cracked and broke into pieces, but you know, whatever. ]
My mom decided she was going to kill as many people as possible with those crystals. I got them away from her... but they wound up in the water. Nobody died, but nobody was expecting to go through that just from popping their daily vitamin, you know?
[ it's half jiaying's fault for trying to kill all of humanity, half daisy's fault for trying to stop her. ]
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destruction on that scale isn't new to him. but it still sucks. and daisy's mom? yeah.
he's thinking of talia. that some things across all worlds don't seem like they change.
they should never form a club. ]
Sounds like a real peach. But nobody died. [ daisy's own words. so it's not like he's pulling fake reassurance out of nowhere. ]
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Yeah. Nobody died from that, anyway. [ people sure have died otherwise, though. ] But that was... I don't know, two, maybe three years ago?
[ time is weird. could have been five. nobody knows. ]
Shit happens. You just keep going.