Meet Newt

Newt and I got to talking about her not feeling comfortable due to appearances.

Newt is a young Atlantean with mental projection abilities. I had heard of her long before first meeting her on the Canadian cosmic-level threat training which brought us all to fight side by side. She's probably one of the nicest young girls I know and certainly holds a popular reputation among the Guardians for her gentle and lovable nature. Her appearance is both beautiful and adorable in all sense of the word, yet she spoke of wanting to try looking more human. She mentioned an unfriendly reception at a youth beach party with the Young Sentinels of the Silver Age Sentinels hero team which is probably what has triggered her desire to be able to mask her more aquatic features. She asked if I knew of ways to achieve this and immediately, four options came to my mind; an old potions recipe based on mermaid magic, a possible DNA-based serum, hologram technology and of course the common liquid-plastic shape masking. I kept this quiet and instead urged her to reconsider, but she insisted it wasn't an endeavour to change who she was, but merely the outward appearance. The way I understand it, young sweet Newt seeks a method in which to ease the first impressions of her more startle or fear-prone peers. Such is the cruel world of high-schoolers and teenagers.