[Myr's look of instant sympathy says he well understands that sentiment. He'd be doing far worse, were their situations reversed--for many of the same reasons.
He's sat beside deathbeds before. He's yet to be on one himself.
Fortunately they've got an excellent topic to distract themselves from all of that.]
He was a Merrow, not a Vampire--so he underwent changes like all of us Monsters do, but didn't have to die for them. My--admittedly rough--understanding is that he was partway but not wholly flesh by the end of it. [That second question, now...] And it did change the kind and degree of his emotions, or--accelerated the process that had begun before he'd come here, anyway. As I imagine that might be a concern.
[Implicitly: He knows quite a bit, albeit filtered through an odd lens.] I know he--and you, I presume--were created as a kind of artificial human, made of metal and plastics and with minds that were written into existence. You could reason as people do, but not feel, so you were treated as a kind of very useful object: Expensive but ultimately disposable. When it came out that you could--what's the word--deviate from the instructions that made you, and develop emotions, your creators deemed it a flaw and began destroying androids who showed the trait.
He--and you--were one of their instruments for that.
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He's sat beside deathbeds before. He's yet to be on one himself.
Fortunately they've got an excellent topic to distract themselves from all of that.]
He was a Merrow, not a Vampire--so he underwent changes like all of us Monsters do, but didn't have to die for them. My--admittedly rough--understanding is that he was partway but not wholly flesh by the end of it. [That second question, now...] And it did change the kind and degree of his emotions, or--accelerated the process that had begun before he'd come here, anyway. As I imagine that might be a concern.
[Implicitly: He knows quite a bit, albeit filtered through an odd lens.] I know he--and you, I presume--were created as a kind of artificial human, made of metal and plastics and with minds that were written into existence. You could reason as people do, but not feel, so you were treated as a kind of very useful object: Expensive but ultimately disposable. When it came out that you could--what's the word--deviate from the instructions that made you, and develop emotions, your creators deemed it a flaw and began destroying androids who showed the trait.
He--and you--were one of their instruments for that.