[ Yeah, she did all her reclining in the Omnitool when Simon carried it around for like 36 hours!!
That only makes it more confusing, an answer that points to... Resignation? At being human? The idea isn’t totally alien, but Simon still can’t wrap his head around it, the thought of feeling that way personally.
At her prompt, though, he looks down at his hands. The missing arm is like a fucked-up souvenir, a reminder that he’s human, and Simon, but somehow still the Simon that PATHOS-II happened to. ]
They got... well- most of me, but I don’t know how that’s even possible. [ Thrilled might not be the word for it. Not yet, since said human body has mostly been getting drugged and knocked around today, but the absence of the skin-crawling wrongness of the stuff he was inhabiting before is a relief. It’s no longer a mental marathon distracting himself from being aware of his own existence.
If he were in the Power Suit right now he’d still be trying to get the hatch open, probably. ]
Just glad to have a face again.
[ He looks up at her, and now he can actually appreciate the disconnect of looking at her, seeing her face not only connected to a live, actual body but connected to one that looks so withdrawn. ]
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That only makes it more confusing, an answer that points to... Resignation? At being human? The idea isn’t totally alien, but Simon still can’t wrap his head around it, the thought of feeling that way personally.
At her prompt, though, he looks down at his hand
s. The missing arm is like a fucked-up souvenir, a reminder that he’s human, and Simon, but somehow still the Simon that PATHOS-II happened to. ]They got... well- most of me, but I don’t know how that’s even possible. [ Thrilled might not be the word for it. Not yet, since said human body has mostly been getting drugged and knocked around today, but the absence of the skin-crawling wrongness of the stuff he was inhabiting before is a relief. It’s no longer a mental marathon distracting himself from being aware of his own existence.
If he were in the Power Suit right now he’d still be trying to get the hatch open, probably. ]
Just glad to have a face again.
[ He looks up at her, and now he can actually appreciate the disconnect of looking at her, seeing her face not only connected to a live, actual body but connected to one that looks so withdrawn. ]