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[leanandgreen]

Ssssoooooo... I gotta ask. What do you guys do for fun around here? I mean, aside from getting involved in the politics of creepy dating planets, or ordering delivery from Dead Bodies r' Us or whatever. Where's a guy gotta go to hang out with other cool people, and watch movies and play video games and stuff? Seriously, please tell me that there's some place to chill at on this ship other than the library?

Oh, uh. I'm Beast Boy, by the way. You've maybe seen me around the ship already. Y'know the handsome devil with the green skin and the pointy ears? That's me.

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[leanandgreen]

Do you know if we get paid for these jobs they've assigned us? Maybe we can pool together and just buy an alien TV from an alien electronics store.

[He's really not letting the alien thing go.]

[warandpeace]

...If you're green, are you human?

[He has to check. He's seen humans changed into a lot of things, but the way he says "alien" makes him think Beast Boy is much the same way.]

[leanandgreen]

100%. Well... Except for when I'm fighting bad guys in my kick butt animal forms I guess, but yeah. Human, born and raised.

[warandpeace]

That is pretty handy.

How did that happen? You being able to change into animals? [Because he's seen a lot of extraordinary abilities, but that's definitely a new one.]

[leanandgreen]

It's a weird story. Honestly, you probably wouldn't believe me even if I told you.

[warandpeace]

I've heard some strange things. Try me.

[leanandgreen]

Okay well, uh, see... When I was real little, my parents used to travel the world. They were biologists, right? Studied all different kinds of animals! But their main focus was on these weird species of green monkeys...

[Stop him if you've heard this one before, Miller.]

[warandpeace]

[He's heard the one about the giant robot outfitted with the mind of an elite soldier housing a nuke, he's heard the one about the parasites that make people breathe through their skin and eat sunlight like plants, he's heard the one about the guy that shot bees out of his mouth and evil secret sects that steal children and raise them up into being dangerous weapons.]

[His mind is ready.]

Go on.

[leanandgreen]

I used to travel with them on their expeditions. Y'know, toddle around and do little kid things while they were conducting their field research and stuff. Well, one day one of those green monkeys totally bit me! I got super sick, like, probably would've kicked the bucket if my parents hadn't put their super genius brains together and made a cure for me.

Anyway, that cure had the side effect of turning me green, and it also gave me shapeshifting powers. That's why I look like this. Heh. Not the most exciting of origin stories, I know...

[warandpeace]

I've heard worse. You're fine.

Still. Sounds like you make the most of it now.

[leanandgreen]

I try to! Where I come from, there are a lot of people who I looked up to, who showed me how important it is to use your freaky powers and stuff for good. So that's what I do; I fight crime and kick butt!