Kaliro wants nothing more than to fit in with his human/humanoid peers, but even simple things like eating are a huge mental and physical barrier for him. He doesn’t have the anatomy or dexterity to pick up and eat off a fork, let alone use both hands to cut and eat food, and it only serves to remind him how much of a beast he really is.
He eats in private as he finds the whole “sticking your face down to your meal” quite embarrassing after spending so much time with people using cutlery.
He has social anxiety you haven’t even dreamed of.
Tevruden can empathize. He hates having to stick his face in his meal in dragon form. Almost as much as he hates being forced to walk on all fours around humanoids.
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The point of fiction is actually to put that guy in a situation™️, and he might try to tell you the point is to then get him out of the situation, WRONG, second situation
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now see if this was a ‘generally’ situation, I’d pick the clone, but in my specific case as someone with chronic fatigue and pain if I found out that I was a robot that means that someone would have gone out of their way to program me to experience both of those things so I’d 100% have to go for robot
See I started with the same logic but ended up at clone. Because why would you want there to be two of this mess :indicates the entire thing:
Where robot implies someone screwed up and now I have joint pain and a mood disorder, clone implies someone said “yes, there needs to be two of those.”
Or, worse: the cloning was imperfect and there is a version of me out there without the health problems. Absolutely horrifying to consider there’s someone out there just like me but successful.
I don’t understand why people are saying clone rather than robot. At least if you’re a clone you’re still a flesh and blood human and it is likely that all your memories of growing up, etc, are real. If you’re a robot who remembers their childhood…
I think it’s a question of what bothers you more. The fact you might not be human or the fa r you might not be unique.
And maybes it’s ego talking, but not being the unique me bothers me a lot more than finding out I have wiring and circuit boards.
see, i voted robot because, like the reblogger above, i would be so entirely outraged to find out somebody built me like this consciously, on purpose, literally made me to suffer.
if i was a clone, 1) genetic whoopsies and faulty cloning techniques would be an extremely believable explanation for *gestures at all of me* this, and 2) i would still be unique, i would still be Me.
even if i shared the same face and genetic makeup as another, or even multiple others, we might be similar, but we would not be the same. we are as much the sum of our experiences, thoughts, feelings, perspectives, and connections as we are the result of the expressions of our biological code, if not quite a bit more the former than the latter.
I’d punch whoever made a robot with a back that hurts.
See, as a programmer I get that, its either ‘back hurts’ or ‘spontaneously combusts’ and you can just put the former on the backlog for he next sprint (Narrator: they didn’t get to it in the next sprint.)
The reasoned trade offs you have to do with programming are wayyyy less fucked up than someone seeing an extant person and just saying ‘oh that fits the criteria, go with it.’
While fascinating, Lavender’s mimicry capabilities have their drawbacks. Certain models seem a little too out of reach for him, others are impossible to copy- and honestly some are too weird even for him! Large, terrestrial and aquatic mammals are a big no no for Lavender, after all he’s cold blooded and very reptile like. How does he get around this? he doesnt. he just. tries his best and fails miserably. Do you really call that a horse? come on! it doesnt even has hair and hooves! it must be painful to gallop using your bare fists! Birds are different, they’re easy to mimic, the issue is that most of them are small and fragile. The very few birds that are bigger than your usual little songbird are either flightless or have long, and i say long necks. This does not bode well for his feeding habits nor his health, as it can cause respiratory difficulties and trouble trying to swallow food whole. Not even going to specify about mimicking smaller things like fish, lizards, insects, slugs… yadda yadda yadda your average nothingburger critters of the woods, you get it. They’re completely out of reach; at least he got the hang with harpies and lamias.
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