"Sure there is, most good traits are correlated, perhaps I just have low mutational load except for whatever cosmic ray gave me dyspraxia."

“Hmmmm. Weird. I, also, am better than most people, and have a standout mutation.”

"I did notice this about you. Mine went away with awakening and yours - brightened a bit. Though actually I don't know if I have a mutation or like, teratogenic damage or something."

“My coloration brightened a bit but I used to have some issues with my eyesight and now I don’t.”

"Ah, makes sense. Twenty-ten."

“Albinism comes with vision damage kind of a lot! Albino cats are, I don’t know if it’s ‘usually’ or just ‘often,’ totally blind. I think it’s something about not having pigment in the iris. I think I have to have pigment in my irises now, just, red pigment, for them to have changed color. My blood isn’t any brighter! I checked. Not on purpose. It was just a scratch.”

"Well, it signifies that you were preexistingly pretty fond of your eye color?"

“I like it! The albinism isn’t actually a mutation in my generation, my mum has it too. So it was—a way the two of us were special. And occasionally someone was weird about it but that just meant I had to double down, right, if someone is mean to you then it’s extra-salient, like, emotionally, that you’re right and they’re wrong.”

"Hm, that's a good way to put a thing I also experience, but I'm not sure it would have caused me to like being an unusual color very much more than it caused me to like being clumsy."

“Well, being clumsy is inconvenient? I didn’t like my eyesight. But my hair is just pretty. Was pretty, I mean, even before I espered.”

"I agree that your hair is and was pretty."

“Right! So it’s easy to like. —Are we flirting, I think I might be too backlashed to tell.”

"I think it is plausibly deniable that we are doing that, which is a known characteristic of the phenomenon, or so I hear."

“Doesn’t that usually mean, ‘yes but you want to obfuscate that for some reason’? …I don’t want to push too hard on this right now, just, uh, figuring out if we should have a conversation while less or ideally none backlashed.”

"I'm easy."

“…Can you expand on that? ‘No I cannot’ or ‘not right now’ are both acceptable answers.”

"- well I was actually doing sort of a double meaning which you may have been too backlashed to catch, in the sense that not only am I flexible between the listed options about having a conversation, but also I am, uh, after I awakened I was like 'hm I should be easy, that will be convenient' and thus it was so."

“Yeah I was too backlashed to catch that. I think we should have a conversation when I am less backlashed but I don’t think there’s any call to be awkward about it until then, not that I am unaware that awkwardness is often involuntary.”

"I can be not weird about it at least."

“Oh good! I don’t think I can do ‘not weird’ but I think I can do ‘not extra weird on top of the backlash weird.’”

"The backlash weird should be diminishing as we speak!"

“True. But what if I am suddenly called back into the dungeon to brainwrestle the Hell Ambulocetus.”

"Ambulowhat?"

“Ambulocetus! It’s a whale ancestor! A partially aquatic mammal that had legs and, through convergent evolution, was shaped a lot like a crocodile! …I don’t recall how big they actually were. But like. They evolved into whales.”

"Aha. If they're that big they might in fact want you for that, they'd probably shrug off typical rounds."