[That gets him to blink with some surprise. Taako? Is Taako telling him this? Taako from TV? It takes him a moment to respond.]
Oh. Well. Thank you. [He doesn't really even know how to react.] I mean, its not like I'm ashamed of it. I chose to have this body. But it's more that...with these kinds of things happening, I don't want people to see me any different because of what my body is like.
[People get easily scared, he knows, and to have a metal man who was literally made to be a weapon for the Church isn't exactly the best position to be in. It works for him when he wants to get the drop in on an enemy and use it for his advantage. Not so much in the middle of a bunch of understandably paranoid and frightened people.]
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Oh. Well. Thank you. [He doesn't really even know how to react.] I mean, its not like I'm ashamed of it. I chose to have this body. But it's more that...with these kinds of things happening, I don't want people to see me any different because of what my body is like.
[People get easily scared, he knows, and to have a metal man who was literally made to be a weapon for the Church isn't exactly the best position to be in. It works for him when he wants to get the drop in on an enemy and use it for his advantage. Not so much in the middle of a bunch of understandably paranoid and frightened people.]