[ Is it? Simon thought it would be, possibly mainly because he’s unable to shake all of his humancentric perspective and failing to consider that 2B would have about as much in common with some robots as she has with any human. Still, that one distinction’s always seemed important to them. ]

Well, it might be less isolating than being the only two androids in a guild full of humans.

[ as he remembers the other of the important distinctions, he adds, ] They’re not all androids, but they’re not “machines”.

[ The edge that might be in his tone if he were talking to 9S is absent. Enemy machines, and that learned difference between them and androids that allows YoRHa androids to kill them, are no less elements of 2B’s life, but she’s never been as... ...vocal about it. ]