Given your own nature, are you really the one to judge? (To Rex! From the BG3 party meme)
party banter / accepting !
touché. nanites hum as if responding to a provocation; his body is an interwoven mix of machinery and humanity, yet all himself. he raises his hands as if to ward off any further barbs hurling towards him——features slack with the faintest hint of sheepishness. guess what goes around comes around when it's a matter of judging a book by its cover. still ... compared to EVOs? this might as well have been a drop in the bucket ... sort of. long as he looks past the moving things around with their mind parts. he's trying——okay!
"okay, okay. you're right. i can make machines from my hands and you're a talking ... i wanna say ... groundhog? makes us both a little bit strange. but, really though, you're sure you're not an EVO..? never had any run ins with a guy named van kleiss? about this tall," he gestures, "big metal arm? talks a LOT about EVOs being the next step in his big, bad, evil empire?" no? no.