"It's really up to you. I think it's not worth worrying about being totally secret- If you have a few close friends or helpers who know, especially, that might be fine... Unless they're gossipy sorts. I'm a pretty private person by inclination when I'm not heroing, but my advice is to take basic precautions and stay vigilant, but accept that your secret identity will probably be compromised in some way or another eventually. You might have to end up dealing with fans or reporters... But that's all in the future! And there's enough supers around now that the less flashy ones often don't merit more than one or two stories, let alone some PI with a corkboard trying to figure out who you are. You can't predict everything in life, I guess is what I'm saying."

"That makes sense and I'll try to do that and not worry too much about if my secret gets compromised eventually then!"

"Great! On to a much more fun topic. Sex! Being a super means you can be pretty popular! However, the rules for safe and sane sex are still the same, and I'll go over those in a sec since you mentioned maybe having bad sex ed. Are you into guys, girls, both, some other combo? It's 'all of the above and also some weird stuff' for me."

"technically both in that femboys are a type of guy and also cute, but I'm mostly into girls and weird kink stuff in practice!"

"Cute small boys are fun! You can loom right over them... Hehe. Anyway."

Salem proceeds to give a fairly thorough sex-ed talk in casual tone. Condoms, signs of abuse and gaslighting, consent, safewords, negotiating scenes ahead of time, STD tests, birth control methods ("best to use them anyway despite weird super biology, you never know"), and finishes with- "But I guess a lot of that won't really sink in until you go out and have some fun with someone. Or it didn't for me, anyway."

"Usually I have subby fantasies but looming sounds quite appealing right now~"

Alex mostly just listens to and occasionally asks Salem to pause while she writes down notes on what was just said, but does ask a few questions at a few points and.

birth control methods ("best to use them anyway despite weird super biology, you never know")

(but what if I want to get pregnant No bad horny thoughts, all things considered she definitely doesn't want that, and so doesn't say it)

Replies to Salem's ending comment with "That make sense and probably will apply to me considering how I usually have trouble remembering stuff that I haven't used yet, and thanks again for being so helpful and informative!"

The call they're in is just voice, so Salem can't see Alex's beaming smile as she says that last bit, but she can probably hear it.

"Mmhm! And now that we have the basics covered... We can talk about what kind of first time you want, and maybe I can help you get it, mmm~?"

"That'd be nice, yesplease!" Alex squeaks out before beginning to ramble again.

"So the main thing I would've wanted is for it to be with someone who didn't have the misfortune of having body hair or had it shaved or maybe had fur instead, at least for the parts we'd be touching against each other, as like I'd find human body hair very unpleasant aesthetically and in terms of texture.

And stretch goals that'd be nice if some of them were met as well would be if they were fine with starting off slower and maybe speeding up later with someone new to sex. Or/and were fine with and maybe into sex where they mostly did stuff to their partner in case I have trouble doing stuff to them during sex? And I kind of also want to be bent over and railed but i'm also kind of nervous about doing that before I've even gotten used to having stuff done to my p-pussy.

I also kind of want to have someone "trapped" in my jelly as I grind against them or being knocked over so I can't move away or do anything as my sex is teased and violated, but possibly i should leave trying to do kink scenes until after i've sex a non-zero amount of times?"

"Those last two ideas do sound like lovely scenes. As a fellow fan of bondage, I approve." She claps her hands. "But if you don't feel kink is right for your first time, then it is not right for your first time. And I'm glad you're setting clear boundaries- No hair. That's a skill some people never seem to learn... What about any further emotional components of sex? Do you want to go out on a date with someone gentle and sweet? Do you want to party at a club and luxuriate in the atmosphere? Do you want to be a prize on one of those dating shows, may the best win? Do you want to hire a prostitute who definitely knows what she- Or he- is doing?"

"Thanks? And I hadn't really thought about the emotional components of it but on thinking about it going on a date with someone sweet beforehand would be nice but a part of me would be worried about a possibility of like what if I hit it off great with them and go on quite a few dates with them and then end up hurting after reaching the point where I wouldn't be willing to become more emotionally committed. And now that I've said that out loud, it seems probably fixable by before going on a date with someone, talking with them beforehand about how as general thing I wouldn't be willing to have a relationship become something more then just friends-with-benefits?"

"And partying at club or being a prize on a dating show would be a nah for reasons that aren't explicitly legibly right away."

"Hiring a prostitute who'd already know they'd be doing would sound nice to me, but I think it might have an almost inverted version of the problem I might've had with going on dates where if I had sex with someone I'd probably get non-zero amount attached to them and want to be friends with them when if I did it with a prostitute to them I'd just be another customer."

"It's sounding like the ideal solution is maybe I introduce you to someone I know is cool, is in your area, and would love to date a shapeshifted super. How close we can get to that solution, might depend."

"That sounds like it'd be a good solution to me too! What were you thinking were the things that'd influence how close it we could get were? The only ones that immediately jump to my mind was like the matter of how many people you'd even know that would also happen to be nearby to me?"

"Yep! And also intangible personality judgements. I don't actually know you hardly at all! So it might be guesswork."

"That makes sense! I could try rambling about myself or stuff I'm interested in to try and increase how much you know me? Or uh maybe i could type up a bunch of ramblings which you could forward to anyone nearby who'd be open to reading the mad ramblings of a shapeshifted super, and then if any of them think i sound potentially neat you could introduce us and see if we'd hit it off in person?"

"That can work! I do also need to know your general area. And if I don't know anyone who might be a good match, oh well. You can always go out in public and see if anyone who says hi catches your eye."

"I'll do it then! And I was in Massachusets. And yeah if you end up not know anyone who'd make a good match that'd be fine, you've already been great help! A-and yeah I could try that too."

And then Alex proceeds to ramble about herself, part of it during the voice call with Salem, and part of it she writes up afterwards to DM her with :

About some of the various manga and anime she likes (>90% of which involves yuri, genderbending, crossdressing, or all of the above) , some hentai she likes (and the things she likes about them), which is similar to her manga tastes but also quite often features futanari, mindbreak (particularly of girls who used to be boys via futanari cock) , lactation, dubcon where the victim enjoys it quite a bit, and quite a few other kinks this margin is too small to contain.

About various games she's played, primarily yuri visual novels, 2D platformers (Celeste included), rpgs and the occasional puzzle game.

She, after a disclaimer that most of the methods used she absorbed from others and that Salem should feel free to ignore this part, rambles on some of the various pieces of math she occasionally re-derives on her own for fun (formulas for the area of an arbitrary hyper sphere, the completely useless and jank formula for the zeros of an arbitrary 4th degree polynominal, a method for finding positive even values of the riemann zeta function, etc).

Other stuff she likes such as time-loop stories, glowfic, quite a few fics where the protagonist can via devouring others steal their powers, stuff where the good guys do horrible stuff because the alternative is worse, various works where the protagonist works to make everyone immortal, and fiction that poses/is about neat philosophical problems.

"Wow, you're actually kind of close to my neck of the woods! And thanks for al the juicy details. I actually have someone in mind now- Well, myself, actually, it's occurred to me that I wouldn't mind snuggling up to you! But also two others spring to mind. A genderfluid game streamer named Artemis, and a lesbian programmer and biology nerd named Claire."

"Neat! And now I'm faced with choice paralysis as they'd both sound nice to meet, and also I'd enjoy snuggling with you too..."

"How about... All three?"

!!!
"All is very good too!"

"Mm! I might even be able to come snuggle with you today. It seems a bit fast though, doesn't it? I'll bop you into a channel with Art and Claire for now. Just a sec."

"That'd be nice, b-but if you think it'd be a bit fast we could wait for however long would seem like a reasonable pace?"

"Ah, but on the other hand, what's life without a bit of spontaneity? And your fur still looks soft enough to sleep on! Oh, I'm convincing myself. I want to come over and kiss you now. If I knew exactly where in Minnesota you are, I mean..."

A keyboard clacks away in the background.

Alex is added to another new channel, #meetcute.

"And there's the channel for our nerd friends. I @'d them but it might be a bit."

"It's incredibly soft! you should feel free to sleep on it sometime~" Alex says, followed by mentioning exactly where in Minnesota she was.

Once added to #meetcute , Alex posts

Hihii, I'm Alex, a new shapeshifted super!

with an attached image of her current appearance (spoilered because her lower body is nude) and then afterwards follows up with a bunch of rambling similar in character to last time.

BoxArt_x2: Hot

WitchOfBlue: Really, just one word? Are you streaming rn?

BoxArt_x2: Nah

BoxArt_x2: Hi! You have good taste, have you seen this one? [Link to a futanari succubus hentai]

BoxArt_x2: Also fucking WOW that body looks like it's straight out of one of my favorite pieces of degeneracy

BoxArt_x2: So... You are fucking hot. And I would love to see some more pics.

CellularAnomaly: ???

CellularAnomaly: Hi. Wow I'm not sure what to say here compared to Art's shamlessness lol.