you wouldn’t think that Simon’s previous experiences being with scientific abominations would make a difference here, but it kind of does. They have a physical form — separated from his chiefly by ‘presence or absence of Cortex Chip with a human consciousness on it’ and ‘number of cybernetic tumors’, so besides the coming to murder her theory, it’s not like Nanami’s monster assessment is wrong, exactly — constrained by physical limitations in a closed space.
But a stormy forest with fucking ghosts, or whatever these are? Totally out of his wheelhouse. He freezes in his tracks when he sees something definitely human-sized vanish into the trees, eyes darting.
And then he heads off in the direction that he saw that figure disappear to, cautiously. His posture’s stiff, leaning forward slightly as if preparing to peek around something, voice uncertain and not quite loud enough, sounding for all the world like he’s not a red-eyed headless cyborg disaster. ] Hello? Hey, listen, if you’re, uh— [ he almost said ‘human’. old habits die hard ] I could use some help?
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you wouldn’t think that Simon’s previous experiences being with scientific abominations would make a difference here, but it kind of does. They have a physical form — separated from his chiefly by ‘presence or absence of Cortex Chip with a human consciousness on it’ and ‘number of cybernetic tumors’, so besides the coming to murder her theory, it’s not like Nanami’s monster assessment is wrong, exactly — constrained by physical limitations in a closed space.
But a stormy forest with fucking ghosts, or whatever these are? Totally out of his wheelhouse. He freezes in his tracks when he sees something definitely human-sized vanish into the trees, eyes darting.
And then he heads off in the direction that he saw that figure disappear to, cautiously. His posture’s stiff, leaning forward slightly as if preparing to peek around something, voice uncertain and not quite loud enough, sounding for all the world like he’s not a red-eyed headless cyborg disaster. ] Hello? Hey, listen, if you’re, uh— [ he almost said ‘human’. old habits die hard ] I could use some help?