"Yes, but I do know things about everyone," Artemis said. "Thank you for the effort."

"...fine," said Kelly.  "Now what?  Questions about who we are?  Show off to class?  Or teach?"

"I thought we'd spend some time getting to know each other, since we're all in a unique situation," Diana said.

Kelly looked at Artemis.

"You first?" she asked.

"I suppose the biggest thing those of you who didn't recognize me is that I'm the active superhero called Artemis," Diana said.

The class looked suitably impressed.

"Can we see the suit?" Trinity asked.

Diana took out a hair tie and tied her hair back before she called out the suit.

There were various sounds of respect and awe from the students.  (Well, all but one.)

"So who's going next?" Trinity asked.

"Any volunteers?" Diana asked.
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"Well, I brought it up," said Trinity.  "I'm a genius with technology.  Unfortunately, I was born without arms.  Fortunately, I'm a technological genius, and while I had to work with my feet for a long time, I was able to design and build these little guys to be my hands."

"Why didn't you just make arms?" Dave asked.

"I never had arms," Trinity said.  "I never developed my brain in a way to have phantom limbs, so I can't use prosthetic arms either.  But by crew, here, they do what they need to.  So... who's next?"

She looked to Artemis for guidance.

"Mayumi next then," Diana said.

"I'm Marume Oyama," she said, and she awkwardly tried to stand up.  She put her hand on her desk-- and it broke instantly.  She cringed and looked at the desk.

"Um, I'm super-strong," she said.  "Very, very strong.  Um, but sometimes... it's kind of hard to not break things."

"That's okay, it does take practice," Diana said.

"...I hope I get there," said Marume.

The class awaited her indicating the next student.

"Lupe? How about you go next?" Diana asked.
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"My sister and I, um... we're..."  She looked at Maria.

Maria stepped in.  "We're, um, genetically altered.  Not by accident.  Our father was super worried about nuclear war.  He engineered us to have the characteristics of species he thought would survive, so we have rodent properties."

"We're otherwise pretty normal," Lupe added.

"I'm sorry, but could you explain the 'rodent properties' a bit? What abilities do you have?" Diana asked.

"Well, we're super-healthy and tough," said Maria.  "We've got really good senses, especially smell and hearing, but basically all of them.  We've got tails, but those mostly look cool and help us balance.  And we've got really impressive teeth that just keep growing and come back if they get broken."

"Interesting. David, you're up next," Diana said.

"Well, hi," said Dave.  "I'm called 'Dave Thorn.'  I'm not the human being born to my parents they named 'David John Thorn.'  I was very sick and weak when I was born, I'm told, so they decided to swap me for a human baby they spotted.  Luckily, modern medicine came through for me and I'm healthy.  I hope the original Dave Thorn's doing okay in the Fey realms, but to be honest, I think my bio-parents are jerks for doing this to us."

"You're a changeling?" Artemis asked. "That's different."

Dave shrugged.

"There might be others out there that no one knows about," he said.  "But it's what I am."

"Okay. Kelly, how about you?" Artemis asked.

"Kelly Lee," she said.  "What human parents named me.  Not from here.  'Parents' somehow got egg-me.  Raised human.  Not human.  Learned how to look human.  Sometimes pretend to act human.  Finally learned 'ears' last month.  Learned how to buzz buzz click click stupid slow talk last week."

Her head whipped around the room looking at the other students.

"Hi," she said.  "Don't worry.  Won't eat you.  Not eat live things.  Human rule.  Stupid human rule."

"And with that, we'll move on to math class," Diana said. "Please take out your text books."