#corner 10

Humans are the /only/ animal on Earth that can do that, and I think that would probably follow a similar trend in space.

They might not be the only ones to do it, with how many species there are, but it'd still probably be rare enough for it to be notable.

Humans are the best at sarcasm.

But seriously humans are kinda the best at layering words and meaning so yeah if diplomacy, debate, or deception is needed I'd actually accept someone transforming into a human to do that.

Tbh my thing with Humans is their like. Stubbornness and determination vibe with anything and anything.

Like like like

This low-key goes into the 'Humans as Space Orcs' genre of posts. But it's.

A Human finds an inhospitable environment? Time to make tools to survive anyway! Protective clothing, vehicles to ease transportation, etc.

Oh you have a warrior race that's very 'stab first, ask questions never'? Have you considered the Power of Friendship?

Wild beast that will rip you to shreds? Sounds like a good doggo to me!

Ben: No! I mean yeah the first 2 but. They were planning on using the eggs as batteries for some kind of ice/cold machine and we couldn't stand by! Then they hatched and while we waited for backup we went to Lilo's house and I got stuck as Big Chill and-

Kevin: For shame, didn't even invite us to the baby shower.

Ben: How was I supposed to know that the chittering sound they made was them saying mama!? I started responding to it a day in then Pleakley came by and asked when I gave birth!

Gwen: Hold on... did you name them?

Ben: Maybe, but Nani and David insisted on mostly normal names. So right now we have Henrietta, Lennard, Jennifer, Penelope, Ventus, and Little Chill.

Kevin: Little Chill? Wow your naming skills are unmatched.

Ben: Hey surprisingly that one was Stitch's suggestion!

Ben, watching Little Chill fall asleep:"Oh, you just wanted to take a nap, that's fair."

Ben, watching Henrietta climb onto him:"Don't wake your sibling."

Ben, watching Henrietta fall asleep:"Is it nap time? Why are both of you using me as a pillow?"

Ben, watching Penelope climb onto him:"Are you gonna fall asleep too?"

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Ben, covered in 14 sleeping necrofriggian babies:"Lilo. Lilo help."

Lilo, taking pictures and sending them to Kevin:"No. Enjoy your new life as a mattress."

Kai: "The fuck kind of question is that??"

Gwen: "It's just that every other kid related to a Plumber we've met has been not-Human."

Ben: "Yeah we've started calling them 'Alienfuckers Anonymous'."

Kai: "...... So does that include you two or...?"

Gwen shrugging: "Grandma was an Anodite."

Kai: "Okay what about Lilo? She's Human, right?:

Lilo: "True, but we adopted Cobra as an uncle so no biological relation! Plus I'm still trying to piece together whatever he has with the Grand Councilwoman."

Lmao okay SO

For people who follow me and don't know Ben 10 lore:

Easiest explanation is that the Plumbers are the Men in Black. Secret government organization that deals with Aliens on Earth. There's some stupid ass wordplay about it because this series loves stupid ass wordplay(I say with all the love in my heart). It also works as a cover because everyone assumes "guy who fixes your sink" if they overhear.

I also jokingly call the Plumbers "Alienfuckers Anonymous" becuse..... well. Most members did canonically have some relationship with an Alien or two at some point and these relationships resulted in children so. Yea.

First off, the kids a shapeshifter. Those are always powerful, even when they have restrictions placed on them like he does. (Not that his restrictions are particularly strict.)

Every time he shapeshifts he touches his watch, so it seems like an open and shut magic item, just hit him with something to shut down magic.

So it turns out his watch is not magic, it is in fact sufficiently advanced technology, good luck finding an EMP strong enough to disable it.

So it turns out the kid actually does have magic, so even with the EMP to shut down the watch you still need to turn off his magic.

So it turns out that the kid can throw a damn good punch. Probably should have expected that at this point.

Because the Timer has changed a bit since like. In my AU Ben never took it off between the OS and the UAF era.

Anyway! This wasn't an intended feature as Azmuth's programming was either 'baby protocol' where you have 10 minutes of use and a 10 minute recharge, or Master Control.

But the Omnitrix's biomechanical nature and the way it's bonded to Ben's body and is now a part of him is slowly changing and now the charges are more tied to his ability to handle things. (Azmuth is both fascinated at the unpredictable ways his project can evolve, and also big mad because it is finding loopholes in his programming)

So Ben has a longer time limit and more control over things, but not full Master Control yet.

Baseline timer is now about an hour. However Ben does not have to use the whole hour. He can manually turn back to himself at any point.

If he didn't use the full hour then he could immediately re-transform into something else. But this takes energy and doesn't fully reset the clock. So say he spends half an hour as Blitzwolfer, detransforms and retransforms into Ripjaws, now he only has 15 minutes.