[ ♚ ]— “Uh, people can’t read minds.” Boy, that thing about being Miss Martian had better have been a joke. After seeing a half dozen of Ben’s alien forms, a) Rex had thought he’d been done with aliens for good and b) he thought he’d seen them all. And, certainly, the cliched idea of a green-skinned Martian was just comical, right? Along with being totally false.
”…You know, I’m eagerly awaiting the punchline to whatever hilarious joke this is gonna be. Lemme guess, it’s something along the lines of, ’'don't have your mind read by strangers'? Yeah? That’s pretty funny.” What, she had a team of other Martians behind her, too? What kind of nightmare fuel was this!?
❝Humans can't read minds — usually. Like I said, I'm Martian.❞
Being mistaken for a human was something M'gann hoped would happen at some point, but she did not expect him to be in outright denial.
❝I promise it isn't a joke, Rex. Do you want me to prove it? I can also shapeshift...which is probably why you don't believe me. This isn't my actual form. It's just how I chose to look when I came to Earth.❞
Revealing her "real" Martian form was a last resort, but if was going to take that to gain his trust, she would at least consider it. Rex seemed like the type of person who had seen his share of the unnatural, so it shouldn't scare him away.
