It's as good an explanation as any for why some skills stay and some don't. I did not keep the sharpshooting ability of the guy whose brain I got stuffed into on Mars. ... The first universe's Mars. The second universe where I ended up on Mars was also unpleasant.

[He no longer likes Mars.]

Mad scientists are awful. My uh. My dad's one? Or was one. Ran away from consequences in Europe and faked his way to Canadian citizenship.

[Murphy can probably fill in the gaps.]

Yeah... I got a bunch of random stuff? Like I can eat anything organic and not get sick, but alcohol counts as a toxin so I can't get drunk unless it's magic and it's really annoying. I hadn't hit legal drinking age before that, and I wasn't cool enough to be invited to parties where people were drinking.