[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.]
[Taako from TV is many things, but he’s also a Transmutation wizard? If he had problems with non-standard bodies, it’d be the greatest hypocrisy on earth. He lives and works in the practice of transformation, changing bodies, pushing boundaries.
Also a cyborg is far from the wildest thing he’s ever seen, so.]
S’not like these are all my original parts either, I get it. [a laugh at his own fucking joke.] Um, but for real, fuck ‘em if they act like that. Just a body or whatever.
Oh— I mean, mostly a joke, what with the whole dying and regenerating thing, sort of a ship of Theseus situation, but also I know the spell True Polymorph so don’t look at pictures of my nose pre-grad school.
[Making a sort of ‘huh’ noise.]
But the stomach works, so I guess that’s the important part!
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Date: 2020-10-11 03:14 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2020-10-11 03:39 pm (UTC)Also a cyborg is far from the wildest thing he’s ever seen, so.]
S’not like these are all my original parts either, I get it. [a laugh at his own fucking joke.] Um, but for real, fuck ‘em if they act like that. Just a body or whatever.
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Date: 2020-10-11 03:57 pm (UTC)[He doesn't want to especially pry, but now he's just curious.]
But really, thanks. It sure is just a body. [A beat.] Its around seventy percent metal, you know. I don't even know how it all works.
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Date: 2020-10-11 04:02 pm (UTC)[Making a sort of ‘huh’ noise.]
But the stomach works, so I guess that’s the important part!
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Date: 2020-10-14 10:20 pm (UTC)[True Polymorph?????]
Well, of course. Where would I be if I couldn't eat delicious, wonderful food?