#kryptonverse

Ben definitely doesn't, but he's got one of those crazy efficient metabolisms that basically let him eat as much as he wants without ever gaining weight, and the Watch monitors and regulates his health anyways. He plays soccer at school sometimes, but he's not part of the team, so it's more for fun than anything else. I'd put him only just above couch potato levels of activity :P

Tony definitely does, particularly focusing on martial arts - at least the forms that don't clash too much with the suit's somewhat limited range of motion. He also does a lot of cardio, to improve his heart's health. Rhodey still follows the standard USAF regimen for fighter pilots, though the War Machine armor (and all Stark suits post-Mark V) have inertial dampening tech that heavily mitigates g-forces.

Julie was already athletic as hell before the Kree arm and Ship's additional enhancements. While she's abandoned the competitive side of it, for the most part, she still practices various sports, with a particular focus on swimming and tennis.

I think superheroics is largely a misnomer for them. The X-Men sometimes help out with certain humanitarian crises on behalf of Genosha, of course, the way governments will sometimes provide resources and manpower as emergency aid, but they don't exactly go around patrolling for bad guys or otherwise making public appearances.

The way they operate goes like this: Cerebro detects the activation of the X-gene on a mutant and locates them wherever they are on Earth (with very few exceptions). Depending on the situation's assessment - local attitudes towards Mutants, family response to the mutation, socioeconomic circumstances - a team is dispatched to make contact with the new Mutant and ensure their safety.

Sometimes the Mutant merely needs some orientation and the X-Men inform them of their options - depending on the nature of their power, and the law of the land, they may be able to stay home if they so choose, for example, while some powers are legitimately too dangerous and pose a risk to themselves and/or others, typically requiring an extended training stint at Xavier's to afford them some control, which may lead to re-evaluating their options down the line.

Sometimes their living conditions become untenable, usually rejected by their family and peers, and the X-Men show up and offer them permanent residency and citizenship in Genosha. This unfortunately happens often when the mutation is heteromorphic (i.e. it causes a significant distortion to the human form).

What made you change Ben's parents, Sandra and Carl, that much from their canon versions? Like, apart from giving Ben more angst, wich I generally approve of.

At first it was a little taken aback by their new roles, perhaps because canon and other fics portrayed them as good parents or at least trying to be.

Thank you.

Hello! Thank you for saying so :)

My interpretation of Ben's parents is a function of my experience with the series growing up; I watched a lot of the original Ben 10 cartoon, then a little bit of Alien Force, then nothing up until a few years back, when I decided to rewatch OG Ben 10 after giving the reboot a shot (and not fully clicking with it), then going into Omniverse and bingeing through the whole thing.

What I'm saying is, I hardly ever saw Ben's parents in my experience with Ben 10 canon - and to be fair, they're barely in it overall - so to me, Grandpa Max was always his parental figure before anyone else, whether or not his actual parents were in the picture. Eventually I looked things up and understood Ben's parents were, all things considered, fairly good people (though I would insist they are at the very least neglectful), but I was attached to the "unsupervised/neglected kids having deadly adventures" angle as I planned the Kverse, so I went with that instead.

Making them...not villains, I wouldn't go that far, but antagonists is more a function of Ben obtaining Master Control so early on in his career; only the most demanding foes will really challenge him in the physical arena, so I had to lean on other enemies who would challenge him emotionally, intellectually, morally, and generally in ways that can't be easily solved by spamming alien transformations. Having such a foe so close to home just seemed like the obvious choice, which will hopefully be evident when they actually make their debut in the story.