Which is weird, objectively speaking, because its rate of respiration is much, much lower than a human's. It sighing like that is absolutely a willful thing.
"Yes. I do understand. Not...the multiple people you've had to be, quite. But the necessity of filling a role instead of just...being. And, maybe, being cracked. On the inside. I wouldn't know how to begin to just be myself."
Or, perhaps, it wouldn't recognize what it's already done toward that end.
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Which is weird, objectively speaking, because its rate of respiration is much, much lower than a human's. It sighing like that is absolutely a willful thing.
"Yes. I do understand. Not...the multiple people you've had to be, quite. But the necessity of filling a role instead of just...being. And, maybe, being cracked. On the inside. I wouldn't know how to begin to just be myself."
Or, perhaps, it wouldn't recognize what it's already done toward that end.