He grinned a little before listening to Ryan's problems. "Well, you are a hero, bro. But you don't need to be someone's personal hero. Especially if they're holding you up to a romantic ideal that's... so not what I'm used to being the son of a feminist icon. May's one of my heroes, but I don't expect her to go saving my butt all the time."
He tilted his head. He spoke with sympathy for a fellow super-son's embarrassed plight. "Yeah, but your mom can be sneaky about it. Just drop it in at the right moment. A person can laugh along with it until we realize what she said. Then we laugh harder."
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He grinned a little before listening to Ryan's problems. "Well, you are a hero, bro. But you don't need to be someone's personal hero. Especially if they're holding you up to a romantic ideal that's... so not what I'm used to being the son of a feminist icon. May's one of my heroes, but I don't expect her to go saving my butt all the time."
He tilted his head. He spoke with sympathy for a fellow super-son's embarrassed plight. "Yeah, but your mom can be sneaky about it. Just drop it in at the right moment. A person can laugh along with it until we realize what she said. Then we laugh harder."