can you pls do todd tolansky x reader but the readers mutation is that they can float so they have to wear like really heavy shoes (im very sorry idk if ur requests are open lmao also im sorry this is a weird ass request and also i did just steal the power things from Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
Mutation Mystery
Todd Tolansky x reader
Words: 700
A/N: I wasn’t sure if I was going to write this because it was sent when I wasn’t taking requests at all, and I’m still not taking any Toad requests atm but the idea finally came to me
Toad had many curiosities in life. Granted some were more ridiculous than others. Why was the sky blue? Can fish drown? What was that new X-men’s power?
That last one he wondered more than he realized. While you had been a recent addition to the X-Men he had yet to figure out your mutation.
You didn’t seem to really fight or at least not yet being that you were fresh to the team. But he noticed you’d hang out with them a lot. So you had to be a mutant right? But what was it?
Fortunately, the opportunity to ask presented itself when he found you sitting on the bleachers all alone one sunny afternoon.
Toad, considering the situation lucky, peered around making sure none of the other X-Men members were around before he jumped up beside you. He was so quick that he caused you to jump a bit at the figure that suddenly appeared beside you.
“So, what are your powers?”
It took you a moment to process what the stranger had asked, “huh?”
“Your mutation? I seen you hang with those X-wannabe’s, so you’ve got to have a power.”
You raised a brow at the boy who was clearly a mutant. He was strange but this should be an interesting conversation.
Holding your lunch in your hands you questioned, “who are you?”
Straightening up, the boy stood tall and raised his hand towards you, “Todd Tolansky, pleased to make your acquaintance.”
You glanced at his outreached hand showing no motion of taking it in yours, “oh you’re the slime-ball they told me to watch out for.”
Toad’s hand unconsciously pulled to his chest as he externally cringed at the brand he had already been given.
“Don’t listen to those losers, they're…well losers.”
“Uh-huh,” you agreed, sarcasm clear in your tone before turning back to the field. When he didn’t seem to move from his spot, you decided to entertain the conversation, “what do you think my mutation is?”
Toad growing even more curious, took a step back and held his hands out as if it was a camera scanning you. You turned to him a bit to give him the opportunity to spot any oddities you could’ve possibly had.
“You look pretty normal to me, but if I had to say…” his eyes scanned from your legs to your arms then stopped on your face.
There was no doubt about it that you were pretty, Toad would even say stunning the more he looked at you, but there was something about your eyes that drew him in.
As he continued to stare into your pupils his hands lowered as his expression shifted. “Your eyes. I’m gonna guess they have some sort of magnetic pull to them to make anyone fall in love with you.”
Your eyes widened, taken aback by his statement, while an unintentional smile started to take over your face at how silly that all sounded to you. “Why was that your guess?”
“Because I think it’s working on me.”
It was stupid. So stupid but that line did work in making your heart jump a bit. He was so straightforward, so blunt that it all just caught you off guard. Trying to ease the weird tension that you felt you laughed, a little bit too hard for your liking, before saying, “you’re funny, I like you.”
And that phrase was all it took for Toad himself to be flabbergasted. His chest was getting warm as a wide toothy grin spread along his face. “You like me—“ His words barely got out before a, “Hey!” Caught the attention from you both.
Turning around you spotted Kitty waving you over and Toad could feel the moment seeping away from him.
“Oh she’s calling me, I’ll see you,” you packed your lunch really quick before standing up, “oh and about my power here’s a hint,” you lifted up one leg, showing him your thick bright yellow shoes, “it's all in the shoes.”
He watched as you waved with a smile before taking off to join the others.
Toad had no idea what your mutation was, but suddenly that was the furthest thing that was on his mind.
