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"Erm. Not exactly," Ben said with a small wince, because she'd just asked a question with a very long explanation. "I mean, they kinda get it all wrong. Anyway I'm more of a Fables guy than mainstream Marvel superheroes and stuff, not that I dislike--anyway, that's not the point." Yikes. He took a sip of his Coke to regroup. He needed to keep this brief because people were not usually interested in the nuances of a long winded Ben-splanation.
"I was working on this D&D character, a dwarf. So I was working on his backstory, and I was kinda just... Well I guess I kinda did a nose dive into researching dwarves which kinda just snowballed into me doing a pretty thorough sweep through Norse myth, and here we are." He paused trying to remember if he'd left anything out, but that pretty much summed it up, so he gave a decisive nod. "I wish I had a better story than that, but my parents stuck to your classic fairy tales as bedtime stories. Pretty normal."