#plumbers helpers

[autistic-ben-tennyson]

Unpopular Ben 10 opinions

I don’t like Kenny. He struck me as a self centered brat. In the OS, he felt entitled to be a hero because his dad was and in OV he tries to force his parents together when they’re clearly uncomfortable with that, not understanding that love takes time and love takes work.

I was never a fan of any of the Ben 10,000 designs except for the reboot version with the jacket. None of them really look like Ben, more like a generic superhero. You can age a character and add bulk/weight while still making them look like the same person.

Cooper is one of the worst characters. His crush on Gwen and the implication that he made himself look like Kevin is creepy. Being voiced by Chris Pratt automatically loses him points.

Julie deserved better writing and less hate from the fandom. Kai had potential to be a good character that was wasted too. I don’t like her but she’s overhated.

The plumbers kids, especially Pierce, needed more development. So did many of the female characters and Reinrassig.

Max is kind of overrated and a bit of a hypocrite. Ex being his willingness to save Phil despite agreeing with killing Ultimate Kevin. Also, is putting aliens in the null void really more ethical than what Colonel Rozum was doing?

[multifandomplushie]

What are the plumber helpers like in the Ben 12 au ( manny, Helen, pierce)

Sorry for the late reply.

As I already mentioned in the answer to the ask about Kevin in dimention 12, Alan, Manny, Helen and Pierce were made part alien through experiments, using Kevin's powers, just like in the show (there just won't be a retcon of Kevin being a mutant).

As for personalities, since Prime versions of Pierce and Helen are mostly a mirror image of Ben and Gwen, I thought of doing something like that too: Helen is energetic and fun like my Gwen and Pierce is empathetic and altruistic like my Ben.

And with the other two, I'll have to think over if I should leave Manny as hot-headed and rebellious and Alan as mature and easygoing, but I think it's a very likely variant.

[kariachi]

Sometimes being a fan of a character is wanting to see fuckers give them soup and peace and maybe more development/backstory.

Other times it's wanting to see fuckers do the equivalent of shaking them up in a box, rolling them out on the ground, and letting you watch them dizzily stagger around the floor.

[babypudge]

A few short months ago, he was just a random plumber brought in to fix the kitchen faucet - you didn't even know his name. Well, actually, you still don't. To you, he'll always just be "Daddy." Like any good plumber, he was more than happy to show off his expertise at both laying pipe and dealing with pesky little leaks - and before long, he was offered a full-time position. Now you're being bounced on his knee nightly before beddy-bye at 6pm, you're falling asleep in your stroller as he makes chit-chat with the neighbors, you're being measured for the sailor suit you'll be wearing in the new family portrait and becoming intimately familiar with the diaper changing station in every hardware store men's room in town. Today, when he had you be his "little helper" to uninstall the toilet in the bathroom next to your nursery, you knew that your chances of ever being an adult again had gone completely down the drain.

[kaijuno]

Last week, Uber charged me $85 for a ride in Baltimore that should’ve been $20, so I decided to give Lyft another try. Today, after checking out of my hotel in Oklahoma, I called a Lyft and was picked up by Mike, a guy driving a red F-150 work truck. The truck bed was full of tools and lumber, and when I got in, I took the passenger seat.

“How far to the airport?” I asked.

“Fifteen minutes,” he replied. “You in a hurry?”

“Not really. Are you?”

“Never.”

As we cruised down the highway in the slow lane, I asked Mike if carpentry was his main gig.

“Among other things,” he said.

“Jack of all trades?” I teased.

“Don’t know about that. Back in the seventies, I was a plumber’s helper. Then I worked in heating and air for a spell.”

“How was that?” I asked.

“Hot and cold,” he replied, deadpan.

I couldn’t tell if he was joking. His voice had a Midwestern drawl, and his face betrayed no expression.

“After that, I started carpentry—trim, then framing. Eventually, I built custom cabinets in rich people’s houses. Learned spiral staircases and furniture. Did pretty good.”

“Are you retired now?”

“Nope. These days, I build campers.”

“Campers?” I asked, intrigued.

“Small ones you can tow anywhere—teardrop trailers. Got real popular during the lockdowns. I build ’em by hand, one at a time.”

“And how’s the quality?”

“Pretty good,” he said.

“Got a website?”

“Sure. Gotta have a website these days.”

“What’s it called?”

“Mike’s Pretty Good Campers.”

I paused. “Your company is called Mike’s Pretty Good Campers?”

“I like to manage expectations,” he said.

“Under promise, over deliver?”

“Exactly.”

“Is that what you were doing before picking me up?” I asked.

“Yup. But I got frustrated. And I don’t like to work frustrated. So I step away.”

“To drive strangers to the airport?”

“Never too frustrated to drive,” Mike said. “Besides, we ain’t strangers no more, are we?”

“No,” I said. “We’re not.”

As we neared the airport, I asked if he’d head back to the shop after dropping me off.

“Ain’t decided yet. Guess I’ll see how I feel in a few minutes.”

Before getting out, I said, “If I like your website, do you mind if I share it on Facebook? I’ve got a few followers who might be in the market for a pretty good camper built by a quasi-retired carpenter who drives for Lyft when he’s frustrated.”

“Can’t hurt,” Mike said. “Once people see these trailers, they fall in love. There’s even conventions for teardrop owners. Thousands show up—you wouldn’t believe how they decorate ’em.”

“Mike,” I said, “I’ll believe just about anything these days.”

At the curb, he unloaded my bags and asked, “Have I driven you before? You look familiar.”

“I don’t think so. I’d remember,” I said. “Thanks for the lift.”

“Was it okay?”

“It was a pretty good lift,” I replied.

Somewhere behind his mustache, I think Mike smiled. I walked into Will Rogers Airport, boarded my flight, and immediately searched to see if there was actually a website called Mike’s Pretty Good Campers.

[bluecollarmcandtf]

My Mall Santa

This is Christian. Right now he's suiting up to work as my Santa for the next few days, but that wasn't what he came in here to do. This guy walked into my mall and began yelling at me for running out of a certain item he wanted to buy; it was some fancy necklace for his fiance. I explained that specialty jewels like that get sold out fast this time of year, but he shot back with his own entitled arguments.

"Do you know who I am?" he yelled, "I'm not some plumber looking for a dime-store watch! Just show me to the high-end stuff!"

By that point, the whole jewelry store was staring, so I quietly relented, "Fine sir, follow me. Hopefully, we can find something for you."

I led him to the back, but I knew he didn't deserve a fine quality necklace, and his fiance didn't deserve a jerk like him. Sure, Christian was quite the catch; handsome, assertive, and obviously rich. Just a glance at him would give that away...

...but my Santa called in sick that morning, so I'd been waiting all day for some asshole to test me and see what happens. Christian was about to discover my favorite hobby, hypnosis.

Once we were in the privacy of the storage room, I pulled out the crowned jewel of my collection. It was a long pendant with a single red ruby weighing the chain down. It caught the light in the darkest of rooms, and it quickly soaked in all of Christian's attention.

The guy had no idea what this necklace was capable of. He didn't notice as his breaths drew longer or as his head dipped lower. I doubt he even noticed that I started speaking to him, "You shouldn't be so rude to strangers. I'm going to use you for a while, but when I'm done, you won't be rude to anyone ever again."

"I won't be rude to anyone ever again..." he repeated. His intense stare continued to burn into the ruby.

"That's right, but for now, you're just going to get dressed and be my Santa, got it?"

"Yes, get dressed and be your Santa..."

I smiled and peeled the pendant from his gaze. It took him a moment, but he shook off the hypnosis and straightened himself up.

Christian's brow furrowed in confusion as he stumbled on his words, "I'm sorry about my outburst...uh...I'm going to be your Santa?"

"That's right big guy," I clapped him on the back and shoved an old cardboard box into his arms, "Get changed and meet me out front. Hurry up, there's already a line of excited kids waiting to sit on your lap!"

Christian cringed at the mention of children. He was clearly not a family man, but nevertheless, he unfolded the box and pulled out the old Santa suit. He looked at it with disdain, but got to work taking off his dressy clothes like I'd instructed, shoulders slumped in defeat.

Walking back out into the bustling mall, I searched for some more guys I could recruit. The line to see Santa was getting long, and I didn't want to be the one managing all those snot-nosed kids and their grumpy parents. It didn't take long before I found a pair of arrogant jocks laughing at the little kids. Those two would be perfect as Santa's helpers...

I lured the two of them into the back under the pretense that they would get some free merchandise. Overly-confident athletes like them were almost too gullible. The only thing that finally stopped their dumb snickers was the ruby pendulum. Their smiles faltered as their eyes locked onto the swinging gem.

"You two are going to shut up and be Santa's little helpers, understand," I commanded.

"Yes," they repeated, "We will shut up and be Santa's helpers."

I smiled and dropped the necklace, breaking their trance. The two jocks seemed alarmed as they realized they could no longer joke around with each other. They couldn't do anything other than while out their arms and accept the two sets of costumes I handed to them.

"Put them on, boys," I added, "And remember to keep those big mouths shut. Just keep the kids in line and let Santa do the talking!"

It wasn't long before I finally got Santa and his Elves out on the floor, ready to finally satisfy that long line of waiting families.

Santa might have looked a little different than most kids would have expected, and the elves certainly looked like they hated their lives, but what else can you expect from a mall Santa?

Christian endured each and every child that sat on his lap, mumbling their wishes in his ear. By the end of the day, his legs were sore and his Santa costume was sticky: probably from candy and whatever else was in those kids' fingers.

The two jocks were perfect as elves, waiting quietly behind Santa until they needed to usher a child to and from the big guy. A few of their university mates might have spotted them dressed up as Santa's helpers. I'm pretty sure they laughed hysterically when they saw the two of them, capturing as many photos as they could.

"Alright, today's shift is over!" I announced to them gleefully.

"I'm never doing that again," one of the elves grumbled as he shoved off his costume.

"Actually, you'll be back tomorrow!" I reminded, "You might want to wash your elf clothes, because you'll be here all day again!"

The two jocks pouted and stormed away. The mall was closing down but I was confident the two of them would report back bright and early for another long day of elfwork.

"Crap, I'm late for dinner with my fiance," Christian suddenly stood up in alarm, still wearing his heavy Santa costume.

I pulled the ruby out of my pocket and held it in front of my mall Santa, "Forget about her. You're going to drive me back to my place and be my personal Santa for the night."

With his eyes glued to the red gem, Christian repeated, "I'll forget about her and drive you to your place. Tonight, I'm your personal Santa."

"Good Santa," I patted his head, "And I want you to laugh and talk like Santa would in the movies. That'll really sell the Christmas magic!"

I smiled as Christian woke up from the brief trance. Again, he looked confused but didn't hesitate to grab my hand and lead me to his car. "Ho ho ho!" he bellowed in joyful laughter as he gazed at me, twinkle in his eye.

All I wanted for Christmas was Santa, and for tonight, I could do whatever I wanted with him...

[ducktoonsfanart]

Donald Duck and Super Mario - Daisy Duck with Princesses Peach and Daisy - Crossover - Duck comics (Duckverse) and video games (Super Mario - Nintendo)

Happy Mario Day and sorry for late! "It takes place on March 10 each year because the date, written as "MAR10," resembles "MARIO" in all caps. The holiday could be celebrated by dressing up as Mario, having a Super Mario-themed party, or simply playing Super Mario games, among others." (quotes from Wikipedia) I drew this two months ago, but for some reason I didn't post it until now. There will certainly be more surprises related to Super Mario and other crossovers related to my favorite ducks. By the way, who can't resist Super Mario Bros games made by Nintendo and we all played it in our childhood. So I drew two of my childhood nostalgias into one. 

Super Mario was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and artists Yoichi Kotaba and Shigehisa Nakau published by the Nintendo company of Japan and that game started on September 13, 1985 and that video game (which is in the form of Tetris at the beginning and then it will be real video game) will be one of the most popular video games in the world. Of course, Super Mario Bros. came out in various variants in video games and cartoons and comics. It's about plumber Mario who lives in a fictional mushroom kingdom and lives with his brother Luigi and they both go on adventures to save Princess Peach and Princess Daisy from the monster Bowser and his minions. Yes, Mario is named after Mario Segale, a real estate developer. They live with mushroom inhabitants as well as turtles and dinosaurs. Mario and Luigi were played by Charles Martinet until they were replaced by Kevin Afghani after Charles retired. And yes, last year there was a Super Mario movie by Illumination.

For the first drawing, I drew the usual Mario and Luigi in my own style, as well as Yoshi and along with Donald Duck, Gyro Gearloose and Fethry Duck who are also plumbers but in their own ways. Yes, if Super Mario was Donald's world, Donald and Fethry would be like Mario and Luigi, with Gyro as their sidekick. And Little Helper.

Yes, for the second drawing, I drew Daisy Duck as a princess and queen similar to what she looks like in Kingdom Hearts, in my own style, along with the mushroom kingdom princesses, Princess Peach and Princess Daisy. Yes, it is interesting that Princess Daisy and Daisy Duck have the same names. And I drew the two of them together since their personalities are similar to each other, although there are differences. Yes, I drew this two months ago, although I didn't post it until now due to some problems. I hope you like this drawing and this idea, and there will be more Duckverse crossovers (Donald Duck and his world) with other franchises.

Yes, this is a gift for my friend, for @gamingstar26 who happens to be a fan of Super Mario and Donald Duck, so I combined them into one. I hope you like it! Yes, there will be more drawings related to this crossover. I hope you like these drawings and this idea and this crossover.

If you like this crossover and these drawings, feel free to like and reblog this, just please don't copy these same ideas and my drawings, without mentioning me and without my permission. Thank you! Once again, Happy Belated Easter, Happy Belated Super Mario Day, and Happy Belated April Fool's Day!

[sillyinkyartist]

Her Little Helpers… (UPDATED)

Warning

Scopophobia

Trypophobia (?)

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Quartet (Normal)

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Quartet (2nd Form)

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Information

Jinx

Amanita phalloides (Death Cap)

Asshole Silly little guy

Accompanies the Plumber(s) as much as possible (If not with the Plumber(s), they are with Fig)

Added the head accessories themselves

Goes Corrupt the most out the Trio

Corrupt Form causes severe nausea to those nearby

Button

Agaricus bisporus (Button Mushroom)

Severely weak due to the additional mushrooms that were not removed after transforming for the first time (Not in pain [usually], just stressed)

Almost always hiding to attack sneakily (If not hiding, they are sleeping or with the Princess and/or Doll)

The most violent out of the Trio

Corrupt Form causes immense hunger to those nearby

Fig(ment)

Psilocybe tampanensis (Psychedelic)

The most toad toad that has ever toad (I’m not explaining)

RBF

Constantly wandering the castle parameters

The most strategic out of the trio

Corrupt Form causes severe hallucinations to nearby

Doll (A.K.A Toadette)

Was literally a wooden puppet until the Princess placed the Power Crown on them

Mostly made of wood and something else

Usually stationed in or outside the Princess’s room

Strings can be removed

Rarely uses Puppeteer

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Extra Information

The Toad Trio injuries were caused by a Yoshi

All 4 Helpers are 3’4 ft (Canon Toad Height[?])

The Trio in their Corrupt Form are 8 feet~ (Requires Poison Mushrooms)

Doll in Puppeteer is 6’5 ft~ (Requires Power Crown)

Designs were semi inspired by the Toads in the Mario OVA

Voices are weak whispers (excluding Fig)

Fig is unable to speak, but they occasionally use note cards.

[iamthekaijuking]

King’s Nightmarish Retail Experience

This post has been a long time coming because I know for a fact that suffering through retail makes for excellent stories and I have cosmically bad luck when it comes to dealing with people, so over the course of like 1 1/2 years I’ve just been stockpiling notes. I had been working with some people who had been working in pickup for five years and by the time I left I had three times more stories than they did. And now that I’ve quit over a month ago I can unleash this upon the world.

This post will only go over my experiences with customers and not people I worked with or how the store was ran. Most people in the store I worked at were either just normal people doing their jobs or the sweetest people you’ll ever meet, and very few people working in my store were actually jerks or gross. That’s actually how it is for most retail shops in general actually. Now I could say stuff about the few jerks (and I’d love to) but I’m not going to just as another way to eliminate any possibility of incriminating where it is I worked. Plus most of that frustration was directed at managers and corporate so you can probably guess why I’d be frustrated.

Also some of these stories are kinda gross so you know, warning. Although I did try and keep it classy.

General weird people in the store.

When I was out on the floor getting items for orders I observed a fair share of horrible and gross behavior. Things ranging from a guy sticking his hand in his pants to directly scratch his junk in public to a woman doing the same but with her chocolate starfish. Sometimes I even saw excellent parenting as well such as the time I saw a little kid pinching his dad, only for the dad to spin around and lift him up by the scruff of his shirt and say “Pinch me again and I’m breaking your neck in the parking lot”. Another time I saw a mom throw her umbrella at her toddlers face because he wasn’t listening to her. Excellent stuff.

This one is actually from one of my coworkers but years ago around the time The Last Jedi released a bunch of blue milk hit the shelves. My coworker was just getting items until a fat scruffy neckbeard guy barged up to her and yelled “Where’s your blue star wars milk?!”. If it happened to me I’d have to try really hard not to laugh at them.

I’ve also just had a customer just walk up to me and demand I clean up a carton of milk a child spilled even when I specified that I was a pickup worker, that wasn’t my job, and I didn’t have a phone to call anyone about it. I ended up having to ineffectively sponge it with paper towels while he watched with his hands on his hips for thirty seconds. Eventually someone came with a mop though.

I’ve had a woman pull me aside wanting me to help her text pictures of her pipes to her plumber. Like… no! I didn’t have time for that! You’d think she was a super old lady in her 80s or something but no she was like late 50s/early 60s! Old enough to know how a smartphone works!

Every customer from here on is memorable enough that I’ve given them their own section.

Memorial Day Farter

This one happened when I was out picking items for orders on Memorial Day.

A woman who, and I really have no other words to describe her, was a hamburger helper of a woman bent over in front of me to grab something and just bayblade let it rip directly on me. I have anosmia but I could tell it was a rancid congalala fart because I could taste it. I swear to god that the gust of intestinal wind that came out of her was powerful enough to blow my shirt back a bit.

And she didn’t even acknowledge it either! She just laboriously got back up and left!

I showered when I got home.

Cottage Cheese Lady

Once again I was out on the floor, this time in the dairy section.

I was grabbing stuff and my cart was parked in front of the cottage cheese. Off to my side an older lady was looking for something. English was not her first language cause she said “Where cottage cheese?” but she wasn’t facing me so I assumed she was taking to herself. But she kept repeating it louder and louder until she turned to me and yelled “WHERE COTTAGE CHEESE?!”. It took me a second to realize she had been talking to me the entire time and in that time she got right up in my face (or as close to it as a five foot person can to a 6ft 1 guy) and almost pinned me against the doors in the dairy section. And for some reason thrusted her chest out at me.

Now she was wearing some fancy v-neck jacket with a very deep v-neck and she was old. So she was thrusting some very unimpressive flabs at me while yelling “WHERE COTTAGE CHEESE”. Overwhelmed, I quickly slid out from in front of her and pushed my cart out of the way and pointed. She then arched her spine the opposite way like a hunchback in defeat and just said “oh…”.

“Bro”

This one also happened when I was out picking items. Occasionally when out picking customers would sometimes ask me where things are, and while I didn’t like it because we were timed on how fast we picked items for orders and the people in charge would get on our asses if we weren’t fast enough for them, I still answered customers if I could, sometimes even taking them to what they wanted if I had time or was in a good mood. Most of the time though people were right in front of what they were looking for and ended up looking like complete idiots.

That said, I didn’t know where everything was in the store. I’m not a robot. But you’d be surprised how downright pissy people get when you tell them you don’t know where something is. This guy is one of them.

So I was picking and a guy twenty feet away from me held his phone up and asked me “do you know where this is bro?”. Now I just want to take a second to describe this man. This guy who looked to be in his forties was in a tank top and had the torso of a really tall broad guy like me, but had limbs so short in skinny that he was only like 5 feet tall, so he had the proportions of a fuckin spore creature. I told him “sorry I don’t know where that is” because one I probably wouldn’t have, two I was strapped for time, and three I can’t see what’s on a phone twenty feet away from me.

This guy immediately raises his voice and yells “Oh so you don’t pay attention when you take stuff off the shelves bro?!”. I was just completely taken aback and a few people were looking at the scene this guy was making, so to get out of the sticky situation I pulled the ultimate get out of jail free card for dealing with customers: I told him it was my first day on the job even though I had been working for over one and a half years at that point.

Immediately this guy’s demeanor changed like a psycho and he started trying to be all cheerful and welcoming me to my new job. He even walked up to try and pat me on the back but I cringed away, and I think he got the message from that and left me alone.

Karen Video Tapes Me

This is the last one where I was out picking for orders.

So it was late in my shift, around 45 minutes before it ended, and I was with another person. It was a pretty good night so I decided that I’d pick for orders the next day just to get us a little bit ahead. So I’m out pushing my cart and getting items and as I turn into an aisle there’s this short old blond lady with a very fluffy expensive coat standing in the middle of the entrance to the aisle. No biggie though, I just maneuver around her and give her two feet of space. But as I pass her she turns to me in disbelief and says “you almost ran me over!” and I just kinda look at her confused and weirded out before continuing.

Now it could have just ended there with both of us thinking the other was weird and kinda rude but continuing on and probably not remembering each other the next day, but this woman was so incredibly personally offended by me. So later in my item wave I’m in the baking aisle bending down to grab something and I noticed out of the corner of my eye someone leaning into the entrance to the aisle and aiming their phone at me.

I got up and walked over and they shrank away, and as I turned the corner it was her! She had filmed me (without my consent which is illegal in my state) and was now scurrying like a fucking rodent towards the front of the store where one of the store managers was at.

I think “hell fucking no she’s not getting away with that” and I end my item wave and bring my cart back to my department to park it while calling who was in charge of the store at the time and explaining everything to her. She asked if the Karen was still in the store and I said I’d check. So I leave my department again to walk up front and see the lady walking up to the guy who oversees the self checkout and asking him to call a manager. I sauntered up with a smile on my face and told him “No no, this is about me. I’ll handle it.”

So I go towards the front office and find the store manager there and explain everything to him. He asks if the Karen is still there and I tell him yes and she wants to meet you, and I’ll take you to her. So I bring him over while making a show out of being polite to everyone around me and saying excuse me to customers in my way all while the lady is trying to burn holes through me with her eyes. I brought the store manager up to her and as he started talking to her I dipped out because my shift was over by then.

I don’t actually know what happened after that but judging by the fact that I heard nothing about it the next day I assume I didn’t get into any trouble and the lady got to die mad about it.

Public Pisser

Every story from now on happened while I was in my department “running desk”, which means I was taking out orders to people in the little pickup parking lot.

This story is also the first weird customer interaction I had.

So I was just watching the camera feed waiting for people to come get their orders when a white SUV pulls up right beside the door we used to go in and out. A guy stepped out of the car but stayed behind his car door so I couldn’t really see him on the camera. He just kinda stood there for a bit and I was starting to wonder what he was doing, so I walked up to the door and flip up a little flap that lets me see through a small window…

And he was pissing.

He was pissing in public on the door. And I saw everything, including how painfully average he was below the belt.

So I knocked on the door to get his attention and his head snapped up to look me in the eyes. I just slowly nodded my head “no” while he started cussing at me, and then I just stepped away from the door and kinda let him get away with it because I was done with the interaction.

Tornado Lady

This one is short and just kinda shows how skewed the priorities of some people can be.

This happened during a tornado that was passing by, and the wind was going crazy and it was raining bullets. At the time the incident happened everyone in the store was in the tornado shelter areas and even the people who had come for their orders moved to park in front of the store to get to safety. All except for one car.

About ten minutes into waiting for the tornado to pass we get a call on our department phone (because people could call us to say they were there although we preferred if people used the app) and it’s an old lady who yells this.

“Um hello?! My husband has been waiting for his order for fifteen minutes! What’s the hold up?!”

My only response I could muster was “Ma’am there is A TORNADO OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW YOUR HUSBAND NEEDS TO GET TO SAFETY.” and she hung up.

The car with the hubby inside didn’t move but luckily the storm didn’t last much longer afterwards and things could continue as normal. In contrast to his wife the man was actually very kind and understanding.

Unactivated Credit Card

So something to note about how pickup worked, at least where I was employed, was that when a customer signed in we had to scan and assemble all the items in their order that we stored after picking, and then process the payment. Sometimes the payment could fail for a variety of reasons though. Like if the customer didn’t have enough money, or their card was locked, or they used a third party payment like PayPal, or their order was so expensive that their bank locks their card to prevent fraud (frustratingly common). When that happened the person running desk had to print off a bunch of paperwork, go out and get the customer’s card, then go halfway across the building to the self checkout to manually pay for the order there. It was an incredibly infuriating process that brought everything to a halt (even while we were still being timed).

One time though a lady’s order failed and I just spent a half hour going back and forth trying to get her card to work all while she kept getting angrier at me. She even accused me of running her card through the scanner wrong, which… there’s only one way to do it so that’s impossible. Eventually she called her bank in a fit and it turns out her card, which was brand new, wasn’t even activated. So she just flipped me off and sped off.

Mulch Lady

So this one took place when a deal was going on at the store. Multiple stores in the chain were having a deal with mulch where if you bought ten you’d get them for ten dollars. However, there was a glitch in pickup where you could instead get ten for five dollars. Management had actually called us to tell us about this and that if people place orders for mulch we’ll have to call the customer and explain to them they will have to pay full price or we will have to cancel the order.

Now a woman tried to place five orders of ten packs of mulch. So I had to call her and explain why if she wanted the mulch she’d have to pay double what the glitch was telling her. Immediately she gets all pissy and throws a fit and tells me that I have to “respect the wishes of the customer”. So when that conversation was over I had to call a store manager about it.

Basically we had to get the mulch ready and she needed to come inside to talk to him about the deal and get stuff sorted out. So that was frustrating because my department had to get 50 packs of mulch, which was so much that we had to borrow a special large trolley from another department. My conversation with the mulch lady went more or less the same as it did before except for one key difference.

She mentioned that her friends did the same thing at a different store the day before so she was extra angry that she couldn’t do the same. And that’s when I realized, the only reason management caught the glitch in the first place is because of her friends and she was trying to pull the same shit they did! Anyways she came for her mulch and went to talk to the store manager about it, and the conversation went in circles because she kept saying “I don’t understand” to everything. Not because she actually couldn’t comprehend anything, but because she didn’t like the answer she was getting and was trying to bait out a different one. She eventually relented though and settled on only taking half the mulch she ordered, which was annoying since I had to remove some from the giant pile of 50 ten pound bags.

So as I’m taking out all the bags on the large trolly I get to the door and suddenly the trolley stops. I took a look and realized the trolley was barely wider than the doorframe and because of the weight it was now wedged in the door and I couldn’t get it out. So I basically had to climb the mountain of mulch to get to the other side and start unloading it into the lady’s van to get rid of the excess weight and dislodge the trolley. It worked but it was really annoying.

Also Mulch Lady didn’t learn her lesson because she tried the same shit the next day.

Taking Offense to a Thanks

This one still makes me mad.

So with how pickup works a customer is supposed to use the app to say they’re on their way and then when they arrive they say they’re here. The idea is to give us a heads up so we can partly prepare an order ahead of time so that when the customer arrives they don’t wait as long and we can beat the timer (because we were timed).

But the longer I stayed at the place the less and less customers did this and it got to a point where only about 1/5th of customers were telling us they were on their way. So eventually I started politely asking customers to let us know when they’re coming, and it was working somewhat until this guy.

Let’s call him Brick. So one day Brick came without letting us know he was on his way and he had a huge order, so big in fact that another coworker went out to help me load it onto his truck (he never helped of course). When we finished I did my usual “You’re all set, have a good day” routine and politely asked him to let us know when he’s on his way. As I turned around and went inside Brick pulled my coworker to the side to complain to her and demand why he had to do that. Even when she politely explained he still threw a fit before driving off, and I later learned that Brick complained to corporate.

A week later when I served him again he actually did use the app to say he was on his way, so I very politely thanked him for doing that and said that because fewer people were notifying us things were getting harder and so I appreciated that small thing. Apparently my thanks just broke Brick because he complained to corporate again but this time said just about every bad thing you could say about an employee short of assault and sexual harassment, so I got written up for it.

I refused to serve Brick again, because he just had it out for me and kept asking my coworkers where I was and kept saying that he wanted a word with me.

Now this story might have a happy ending because it turns out that Brick owns a construction company around where I live and I’m currently trying to figure out how my family and I can review bomb his business without getting sued for defamation.

Nasty Man

Some customers really don’t care to not look like total slobs in front of others or try and have some public decency. One interaction sticks out to me and I’m going to call this guy Cory because he looked like Armenian Cory but somehow even more swollen.

I took his order out to him and he got out of his car to help (which honestly good on him I appreciated that). But he was greasy and his shirt was like three sizes too small and his pants were too big and about to fall down. Cory also wasn’t wearing underwear and I learned that the hard way when he bent over when facing away from me and bared his whole ass. I also unfortunately noticed his fly was down and I could see his uhh… small earthworm.

It was a very uncomfortable situation and I couldn’t tell him to pull his pants up because he could report me and I’d get in trouble! So I had to grin and bear it while this idiot was getting his groceries with his dick out.

Happy Birthday!

This is another customer who had zero shame.

This happened last year on my birthday/national Godzilla Day. It was night and I was doing a later shift and a guy in a truck pulled up and signed in. Things went pretty normally and I took his order out to him. Now I was going to put it in his trunk because that’s usually where customers want their groceries, but this guy said he wanted his stuff in the passenger seat.

I was like “Okay” because that’s not really a big deal, so I opened the door and started unloading his groceries and I noticed he was watching his phone. Now the phone was mostly turned away from me but I could see just a sliver of the screen, enough to make out what he was watching. And he was watching…

Porn

He was watching porn right in front of me while I was giving him his groceries.

Absolutely shameless.

He tried to turn the phone away from me more but I already saw. I basically hurried up with giving him his stuff and rushed back inside. Now I expected him to leave after that… but then his truck started shaking. I eventually called the store manager and we were about to send security out before he finished and drove off. I think he knew I saw because he never came back.

The Time I Was Actually Almost Mugged or Trafficked

I’ve actually talked about this one in the past here before but I’ll just rehash it here, and unlike all the other stories where it’s just about Karens and idiots and gross slobs, this one is actually scary.

So it was late at night and I was covering for my underage coworker so she could take a lunch break. A black SUV slowly pulled up to park and takes up 2 parking spots, and then a woman got out of her car and kinda stumbled over to the signs in front of the pickup parking spots.

I assumed she's drunk and can't sign into the app and is looking at the signs for the number to call us and say she's here. But then she walked up to the pickup door and knocked, and was keeping her face away from the camera the whole time. I grew incredibly suspicious because customers aren't supposed to come up to the door for security reasons, and she's keeping her face turned away from the camera the whole time. So I slinked up to the door and quietly flipped the metal plate to peek out the window.

Her back is still to the door.

I slink back to the curbside front desk and keep my eyes on the camera. After awhile she stumbles back to her car and then calls. I proceeded as normal and get her name, but as I was looking I noticed that her name isn't on the list for the day. I think "okay maybe she's drunk and her order is for tomorrow". I looked all the way up into a week ahead of time. Her name was not on the order list. I told her this and asked if her order was under a different name. She said "Well I used my son's card for the order so maybe it's under that, but his last name is the same."

Btw I could barely understand her and I had to ask her to repeat herself a few times.

I asked what it is she ordered. She said sketchers. I looked for some shoes. We didn’t have any back in pickup for any orders. I told her this and before I could tell her she might be at the wrong store she hangs up. And stayed there for almost ten minutes.

2 customers pulled up and signed in for their orders and I think “okay I’m not going out alone”. So I called the head of the store and she sent a team lead and what I assume was security back there. As I’m explaining to them the situation my coworker gets back from break. So I come up with a plan: we all go out at the same time and my coworker and I give the orders to the customers while the two guys talk to her and see what’s up.

But as they approached her car she sped off.

They're weirded out too and gave me the number for security in case she came back. And for the rest of my shift I did not let my 16 year old coworker take out orders, and when I left I urged her to call security if anything vaguely weird happened.

Now this exact situation could have gone so much worse. What these people like that do is get a woman in on the whole thing drunk and drive them to a pickup parking lot at night. The reason she’s drunk is to make her seem defenseless and to lower the guard of the employees, but she also hid her face from the camera to make it harder to link her to a crime. Everything she did was to get someone to come out to the car where more people hiding in the back of the vehicle would come out to mug the employee, or if they’re underage girls, potentially kidnap them.

This exact scenario has played out before around where I live and I am so glad that my cautious nature picked up on what was going on.

The Worst Customer

I’ve painted a pretty good picture of some pretty terrible people, but this woman is in a league of her own. To give a sense of how awful she was, she is the only customer I’ve ever had who purposely caused me physical harm. I’m going to call her Slattern, because that is the nicest thing I could call her.

She was a regular to the store, but she never did anything to meet us halfway and was so incredibly short fused and rude that half of the people in my department dreaded serving Slattern. So full of anger was she that she could barely keep herself from throwing a fit when we so much as asked her name when we brought her order out to double check that it was hers.

The one time Slattern hurt me was during winter where I guess she was having a bad day or something. As I was leaning into the back of her SUV to put the groceries in I saw her hand fly up and press the button on her rear view mirror that closed the trunk, and it slammed down on my head. The metal edge of it hit me and the only reason I wasn’t cut and bleeding is because I had a jacket over my head, and that jacket got a cut in it afterwards. I almost fell over onto the ice covered asphalt because of how much pain I was in. Her teenage son actually showed concern for me and was asking if I was okay, but when I looked at Slattern’s face through the rear view mirror all I saw was her looking at me with this smug satisfied smirk.

This woman was genuine evil and had some of the worst tantrums the store I worked at ever saw on the few occasions she stormed up to the front to argue with a store manager. Even they thought Slattern was “a complete bitch”, and even her son tried to get her to stop a few times. I quit before I ever saw the end to the Slattern Saga, but I’m certain she’s banned from the store by now. I would have absolutely pressed charges but unfortunately the trunk thing was very easy to write off as an accident.

The Angry Cloudstrike Man

This one happened during the cloudstrike fiasco if you remember when half the internet imploded awhile ago.

During this time working retail was possibly the worst it had ever been, without a properly functioning network we were borderline incapable of doing our jobs but corporate wanted us to anyways. We had to treat every order like a failed order and this resulted in long wait times that made everyone very angry for at least a two days until everyone realized why nothing was working. But there was one older customer who just never got the memo and was just constantly a complete asshole.

Every time he’d get mad at us for our system not working and act like he expected us to magically fix it, and was just so mean and yelled at everyone who served him no matter how many times we politely explained things to him and offered gift cards as compensation. Every time he’d also say he’d complain to corporate on their website and never come back again… but then be back the next day for several days straight. So definitely not a man of his word which was kinda funny.

He was so rude to us so consistently that I was able to get the higher ups to get off their asses for once and begin the process of banning him from the store.

It eventually came to a head one day where he placed an order but we never received it (because again, cloudstrike) and yelled at a coworker who had to go out and explain it to him. When she came back inside he called our front desk and I answered.

Again, I explained to him what happened and that we had no power to fix it, but he refused to listen and the conversation went in circles. It eventually got to the point where he was wasting so much of my time and I was getting so sick of his shit that I realized “okay corporate already knows this guy is an asshole and he’s already getting banned from the store and he already probably spews bullshit when he complains to corporate” and just went mask off.

I personally shrink away from confrontation so this is very uncharacteristic of me, but I just started full blown arguing with him and trying to make him as angry as possible. I didn’t hurl any obscenities but it was clear I was just stirring shit, and oh my god it was euphoric. If you’ve never worked retail you will never know the feeling of having a job where you simultaneously keep the gears of society turning while being treated like the shit stuck on someone’s shoe, and just unleashing that frustration on someone who deserves it. The only way that moment could have been even better is if I could reach through the phone and strangle the guy like Bart Simpson.

I wanted to end on a happy note. That’s about it for the retail stories.

[dragon-fly34]

Hi! Apparently the votes were for the Koopas & Boos AU, so here is the (more or less) complete AU of it.

I really want to take the photos, but a lot of headcanons from the AU, and I also have some couples in the AU 💞💞

Here the headcanons:

-> Mario is the king of the Darklands and the Mushroom Kingdom and also Peach! They are married in this AU, Mario was the prince of the Darklands together with Luigi (Who is now king of Boos and ghosts together with his wife Daisy Floral) and Peach was the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, the two met when they were children and they met they felt like lovebirds. Luigi was also prince of the Darklands, but after a few weeks before Mario and Peach got married, Luigi was killed by some idiots, Mario became desperate, so much so that he almost canceled his and Peach's wedding, but one night those same idiots tried kill Mario too, but Luigi protected him as his boo form, he told Mario that even if he had died, they would still be brothers, Luigi also told Mario to give up on his and Peach's marriage, Mario agreed and married Peach and they became King Mario and Queen Peach.

Mario wants to bring Luigi back to life, but the green king insists that he doesn't need to do that.

-> Luigi met Daisy shortly after he was killed, Daisy welcomed him into her hotel and they soon fell in love, plus Daisy helped him discover his powers and become king of the Boos! Mario was happy that Luigi found a loved one like him with Peach, now Luigi and Daisy are married just like Mario and Peach.

-> While Mario and Luigi are kings, Sheila and Hellen are princesses! Sheila is the princess of the Spirit Animal Kingdom governed together with her father Marcos and her nanny Luna, alongside her faithful friends Karen and Fang (They are replaced by Toad and Toadette in this AU). Hellen is the princess of Sarasaland ruled by her father and stepmother and her younger sisters. Both princesses are very good friends!

-> Bowser and King Boo are great friends who decide to open their own plumbing company, besides being friends, they have a brotherly relationship, King Boo is like a younger brother to Bowser and he loves that about him.

-> Exactly Junior and the Koopalings exist in this AU! (It turns out that Clawdia is switched places with Pauline or something like that) She and Bowser had a relationship in the past and had Junior, but unfortunately she died and Bowser took care of her son, the Koopalings were Oliver's children, he promised his friend who would take care of their children. Exactly the Koopalings are like "helpers" in Bowser and King Boo's adventures.

-> While Bowser and King Boo are the heroes, Mario and Luigi are the villains, right? Well, not in my AU, they were kind of villains, exactly Mario kidnapped Sheila, but she talked to him and Peach before Bowser and King Boo saved her, but why did Mario kidnap Sheila? Well, it turns out that after Luigi's death, Mario tried in different ways to save him, then he discovered that Spirit Animal Kingdom had many powers and that's why he kidnapped the princess, but she talked to him because it reminded her of her mother's death, but before Before Mario let Sheila go, Bowser and King Boo arrived to beat the king, but Sheila and Peach talked them out of doing that, but the story doesn't end here.

Luigi discovered weeks later what Bowser and King Boo did to Mario, but he didn't hear the part that Sheila and Peach talked to the two of them, so for his revenge, he tricked King Boo by saying that the plumber got a mansion, but Bowser He became suspicious and went to the mansion and was captured and King Bbo went after Bowser and the story ends here, right? There are no more details.

That same night Mario talked to Luigi about the truth, but a "rivalry" began between the two kings and two plumbers because of these events.

Wow, I managed to explain the Mario movie and Luigi's mansion game in this AU :O

-> Junior and the Koopalings want to get Bowser and Sheila together, after all they are idiots in love (just like King Boo and Hellen) and a bonus Karen and Fang also want to bring these two together.

And a bonus of this AU:

-> The wart and Tatanga in this AU are Wario and Waluigi, I imagine they are both jealous of them, and Midbus would be Haru, I imagine him being an idiotic prince and Bowser hating him.

-> Exactly Sheila continues to be a hybrid, I imagine she was already born in the Spirit Animal Kingdom (just like in my Roleswap AU where the Mario bros were born in MK) meanwhile Bowser, King boo and Hellen are human, Mario and Peach would also be human but Mario would have powerful powers (just like Bowser has in the normal games, hell he doesn't have powers 😔) and finally Luigi and Daisy are ghosts.

-> I'm thinking about putting other characters like King Bob-omb or Taylor, but I wanted to put her as Rosalina in this AU, I imagine that in Super Bowser galaxy, the lumas didn't have total control over the galaxies and then she started taking care of them, but Taylor would still remain Tatanga's sister.

[kariachi]

Some thoughts on improving the Rooters Arc

The Plumbers Helpers are not involved ('hey, I know, how about we take half our non-white recurring cast and make them victims of kidnapping, brainwashing, illegal experimentation, and child soldiering by the authorities' how about fucking no)

We get new characters to be Kevin's old team, maybe toss the experimentation entirely or mostly in favor of making them already be from a range of species, maybe even natural hybrids (especially since the original plan for the Rooters seems to be for them to have been from a range of species, this could play more with that)

If you wanna keep the hybridization experiments, have it mostly be the adults with the hybridization being used as a carrot under kids' noses (something something further emphasis on Servantis's view of Kevin as a tool even as he convinces him they're partners in crime)

To facilitate using primarily new characters we replace a lot of flashbacks with a dedicated episode between Rooters of All Evil and Weapon XI showcasing a chunk of Kevin's time with the group (make this a middlepoint, then you can keep the final flashback an Argit-focused and narrated one to keep the vibes between them there)

Some sort of tidbit as to why Argit is alone in a cage (even in canon, why is he the only donor seemingly left, and here especially without the hybridizations why is one of the children being kept in a cage isolated from the others)

Put more emphasis on the fact that Servantis is not doing what he's doing because he's worried about what Ben can do, but because he wants an army that's been as brainwashed as you can get without having to deal with the real delicate and labor intensive tiny children and doesn't want the hero getting in the way (I am tired of people ignoring that in favor of 'oh but he had a point' no he didn't you just didn't pay any fucking attention)

Lean harder into the Plumbers' part in this, seriously how am I expected to believe that one of their groups was sending children to attack various bases and nobody knew? It just so happens that the Magistrata completely ignores the victims, grabs all the evidence, fucks off with an 'oh yeah we're leaving you here as punishment', and it never gets mentioned again? Yeah no, stronger implications of collusion damnit

More solid information on what was done with these kids' heads, because in the original there's implications of sleeper agents and changes made to facilitate that but nothing's ever done with that so we can't actually know- give us answers

Also clarify since when he can't read Kevin's mind- canon is ambiguous on if that's an old or new trait and no more

Osmosians stay. Servantis fucked with Kevin's backstory for Villain Reasons but he is a hybrid and always has been- whether what's going on there gets clarified later is a whole other can of worms

There's fucking aftermath to the while mess, it doesn't just get forgotten as soon as the immediate issue is dealt with- we get an episode dealing with the changes in dynamics resulting from people's heads getting unfucked with, lingering discomfort between Kevin and Ben (because you know Ben would have been harder on people he didn't know turning on him, while Kevin would have understood and felt responsible for them)

The rest of OV shows a steady decline in the younger set's relations with the Plumbers- from Ben and Rook to the Plumbers Helpers- as a result of the revelations of the arc ending in them abandoning the organization

[useless19]

In one of my previous posts I mentioned reading/playing the old Nintendo Adventure Books when I was a kid. Out of curiosity, I managed to find some scans of them online and poked through some of the ones I didn't used to have.

They still have an old-school cartoon vibe (constant quips, a lot of nasty appearance-shaming toward the bad guys, etc - they're from 1991), but if you can get over that, I really like the way they often have puzzles to give you hints as to which way to go. It's something I feel is missing from most choose-your-own-adventure books.

(Okay, yes, sometimes the puzzles pushed you in the wrong direction or were just straight up wrong, but the concept is there at least).

However, the reason I'm making this post, is because book 4 Koopa Capers has an opening which I'm amazed that the bowuigi crowd seems to have missed.

"KoopExpress," a voice yells outside the Super Mario Bros. plumbing shop in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. "Special Delivery!"

Luigi looks up from his new invention, a water-powered pasta machine. It isn't working quite right. "Strange," he says. "Mario and I weren't expecting any deliveries today."

The tall, thin plumber tucks his high-tech plumber's helper into the pocket of his green overalls and heads for the door.

When Luigi opens the door, he sees a big package on the stoop. It looks like a giant hero sandwich wrapped in brown paper. "Mmm, looks tasty! But there's no return address," he says, stroking his thick black mustache.

Luigi is even more puzzled when he takes the paper off. "It's a rug!" he exclaims. "I wonder where it came from?" He unrolls the carpet on the living room floor. "Very pretty. It looks like a Goomba pattern."

He steps onto the rug to get a better look. "Hey!" he shouts as it comes to life under his feet. It's a magic carpet!

Before Luigi can escape, the rug wraps itself around him so that only his head and feet protrude from the ends. It rises into the air and zooms down the hall through the special pipe in the workshop that leads to the Mushroom World.

The next thing Luigi knows, the rug screeches to a halt in front of Bowser Koopa's castle. "Oh no!" Luigi thinks. "I'm being served to my worse enemy for dessert."

Out of the corner of his eye, Luigi sees two large helmeted red turtles carrying hammers. The Hammer Brothers! They waddle up to Luigi, pick him up, and carry him into the castle, still wrapped in the magic carpet.

Soon Luigi's bearers arrive at Bowser's enormous throne room. They unroll the carpet and send Luigi tumbling across the floor. He rolls to a halt at the scaly feet of Bowser Koopa, king of the turtles and leader of most of the bad guys in the Mushroom World.

"Good," Bowser says, squinting down his slimy snout at the prisoner. "Now, everybody out! Not you," he growls as Luigi tries to sneak off with the rest of the crowd.

Bowser waits until everyone else leaves. Then, in an embarrassed whisper, he says, "I need your help, plumber."

Before Luigi can recover from shock, the turtle king goes on. "My daughter, Wendy O. Koopa has vanished! She may have been kidnapped," he gulps, shedding a large crocodile tear.

He wipes his eyes with his sleeve and continues. "I sent my Koopa Troopas to search for her, but with no luck. I need a real hero to find her!" He puts his arm around Luigi's shoulder and adds, "I know you can do it. But the whole thing must be hush-hush. I want it kept a secret from my sons, the Koopalings. It's possible that one of them may be the kidnapper. Besides, no one can know you're working for me. It would be terrible for my image."

Luigi is very confused. "Let's recap," he says. "You want my to find your daughter? And you don't plan to tell anyone I'm working for you? So I'll still have to fight your flunkies, including your bratty kids, while I'm doing it?"

Bowser nods. "Right. Of course, your brother Mario might have been a better choice, but---"

"Oh sure, everyone would rather have Mario," Luigi retorts, offended. "Too bad he's fixing that drip at Niagara Falls. What if I say no?"

"I'd be very annoyed," says King Koopa, showing all his teeth in a sinister smile.

As Luigi looks at Bowser's enormous teeth, he says to himself, "Maybe Bowser is telling the truth. There's a first time for everything. And he does seem upset."

Luigi takes another look at the turtle. Bowser is now gazing at the ceiling and whistling innocently. "On the other hand, he's a born liar," the plumber thinks. "Well, maybe I should look into this mystery, just to see what the real story is. Besides, it would be quite a tale to tell Mario."

"Are there any clues?" he asks aloud.

Bowser holds out two shreds of paper. "There was a note in her room, but her Nipper plant chewed it up. This is all that's left."

Luigi can read only two words, FORT and MAGMA, on the scraps. "Intriguing," he says. "Okay, I'll do it. It might even be fun!"

Solve this puzzle to see what happens next:

Help Luigi find his way through this message maze to see where the clues lead.

If you think Luigi should go to the Magma Pits, turn to page 55.

If you think Luigi should go to the Fortress, turn to page 20.

If you think Luigi should look around Koopa's Castle, turn to page 29.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

plumbers were here today bc our decrepit pipes are falling to pieces etc. i was told gertrude was a good helper

[spike093]

The Plumber's helpers, but I haven't gotten to Pierce yet.

-Manny

Now missing an eye as well as his hand. Although what happened to it is unknown. I assume he was attacked by something(also, I like to think he does his own hair. It just sounds neat)

-Helen

Added purple to give some visual interest, I didn't draw her vest thing. I forgot why. She looks cooler without it to me anyway. Since she doesn't have a biological helmet, she keeps one with her. I'll design it later.

I wanted them to look a bit more human since they're supposed to be half human. I'll do their full designs later on. For now, I'm happy with this

[omniglitch-au]

To Four Arms, XLR8 and Heatblast: did you ever train with the Plumbers Helpers to help them with their powers?

"Sure did! Someone had to rework Manny's regimen, little dude was way too scrawny!"

"Helen's fun to race with! She still needs to practice her 180 turns, though."

"Man, Alan's flying technique was horrible! Sure glad I came along."

[princess-of-the-corner]

The wrestler brothers from the Ben 10 episode "Ready to Rumble" were initially meant to be mutants, but the writers later intended to retcon them into being half-alien hybrids like the Plumbers' Helpers with Alien Force, however they have since gone back to calling the brothers mutants. What would you say they are in your 'verse?

Ah depends/

From what I remember/spelunked on the wiki, there's not a lot of info on their backstories.

That said....

Typically 'mutants' in the Crossoververse are the result of active experimentation of some sort. Whether they were someone fucking with their genetics or a normal Human who was contaminated and changed, there was something active that caused it.

Barring Mutation, then the other option is just that they're some type of non-Humans. Alien or Monster is on the table for the exact details.

Assuming they were born like that, then yeah monster or alien.