[It's a knee-jerk comeback, and later, he'll probably regret it. Is he better than Alphys? It depends. "Better" is too general a term. He doesn't know her educational background, but based on what he does know of her past, she's largely self-taught. It's not a detail he inherently looks down upon—he can attribute plenty of his own knowledge and skill to self-teaching. In the K-Science field, he's a pioneer. But he does have six PhDs and a decade of real lab experience under his belt. That gives him a leg up if they're measuring "better" by way of resume.
Truth be told, they each have their specialties. Alphys is out of his league when it comes to coding. Between the two of them, she's the better engineer. Caedra is not entirely wrong in calling out how thinly his expertise is spread; his years of focusing on biology have let his mechanical skills fall out of practice, save for his hobbies and the occasional need to build equipment for his Kaiju research.
All of this faintly registers as Newt huffs at Caedra. Is he better than Alphys? He likes her well enough, respects her greatly as a colleague, but he's already said he's the best here and he meant it. It's nothing personal.]
Alphys is heading up the project because she's been studying the Door since before I got here, that's all. She's got seniority.
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[It's a knee-jerk comeback, and later, he'll probably regret it. Is he better than Alphys? It depends. "Better" is too general a term. He doesn't know her educational background, but based on what he does know of her past, she's largely self-taught. It's not a detail he inherently looks down upon—he can attribute plenty of his own knowledge and skill to self-teaching. In the K-Science field, he's a pioneer. But he does have six PhDs and a decade of real lab experience under his belt. That gives him a leg up if they're measuring "better" by way of resume.
Truth be told, they each have their specialties. Alphys is out of his league when it comes to coding. Between the two of them, she's the better engineer. Caedra is not entirely wrong in calling out how thinly his expertise is spread; his years of focusing on biology have let his mechanical skills fall out of practice, save for his hobbies and the occasional need to build equipment for his Kaiju research.
All of this faintly registers as Newt huffs at Caedra. Is he better than Alphys? He likes her well enough, respects her greatly as a colleague, but he's already said he's the best here and he meant it. It's nothing personal.]
Alphys is heading up the project because she's been studying the Door since before I got here, that's all. She's got seniority.