"Will they be the best of three worlds? But if Miracles are straight-up better than humans, wouldn't a Miracle-mer hybrid be better than a quarter-mer, quarter-human, half-Miracle?"

"The quarter human doesn't count, silly."

"So that's quarter-mer, half-Miracle, quarter-nothing?"

"Well, Miracles are just humans made awesome by a virus."

"Oh, so it's three-quarters Miracle, quarter-mer?"

"Yup!"

"Wouldn't just infecting a full mer with the virus make it better, then?"

"Eh, it'd probably not have legs."

"True. So what are the advantages of being mer that Miracles don't have? Breathing underwater?"

"And we look cool."

"You look gray."

"Yes?"

"It's weird," he giggles.

"And we have claws, and we're strong!"

"I have forcefields and laser guns. And I bet I could make a strong thing."

"Well maybe when we're bigger and you're a girl, we can mate and have a baby that's all those things." He says this pretty casually.

He wrinkles his nose. "Ew."

"You think worms are cool but not mating?"

"Having babies isn't cool, and mating is weird and an adult thing."

"I think it's more a teenager and adult thing."

"Okay, sure, it's a thing of people who have hair in weird places."

"My babies are going to be better anyway."

"...I'm not even gonna question it."

"I know how to settle this! I'll mate with Moira, Martin and Stan can mate with Nemo, Hannah with whoever, and we'll see who has the best babies. Sadde can judge!"

"Theeeere iiiisss nooooo suuuuch thiiiiiing," he singsongs.