@SuperSideshow Okay, just re-listened to the #Eternals podcast and I have to counter several of @Jayslacks's points about #Makkari & #Sprite.

The Eternals were designed to help humans progress. Part of this is to blend in...hence the different races.

Maybe the deafness was also planned as a way for some of the Eternals who couldn't sign to communicate with deaf humans.

With Sprite? She's a storyteller! Easier to listen to a non-threatening smaller-stature being.

'nuff said! 😉

@Jayslacks @mikebrew BTW: #Makkari is deaf for the one simple reason "to be representative" of other humans. The SAME reason #Sprite was young, #Sersi Asian, and #Kingo Indian, etc.

I really really don't think there was a decision behind it, but I will say that it fits in with THEM fitting in with Earth.

Okay, maybe not so much when being deaf meant you didn't hear the lion creeping up behind you on the African veldt - and they ate you ::shiver::. But fitting in w/today.