Catch-all July

[muscovy]

Who: Muscovy and assorted people
What: Lots of things
Where: Lots of places, see subject lines
When: Throughout July
Warnings: TBA

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[muscovy]

If you were born as a human, you have to have parents. All humans have parents, even if they don't know or like them.

[But another aspect confuses him.]

How does being trained into a weapon make you less human?

[wipedclean]

Yes, but they're gone.

[He doesn't remember them. They're not important.]

I'm faster and stronger than most. I can do things that others can't or won't. I don't... I shouldn't have emotions.

[He frowns a little.]

They call me a weapon and treat me as one, therefore that's what I am.

[It makes more sense when Pierce explains things.]

[muscovy]

So you have parents, but they are dead. That is different from not having parents, yes?

[That is delivered with firm certainty. Some people don't have parents, but then you would not only have to come into existence without them but also never have adopted any.

Then he tilts his head, though he is still smiling the same smile. Bucky's words remind him a bit of Rey. I should not have emotions. Monsters don't cry.]

But you have emotions. What emotions do you have?

[There are people who are.... monsters, weapons, whatever you will name it. Who become unfit to anything else but destruction and either can be used as that or become liabilities. But neither Rey nor this guy really sound like those people, and well... there are emotions like rage and disgust and lust that those people can still feel, but he didn't sound like that was the kind of emotion that he was talking about.

It's not something that he would have thought about like this two years ago, but he's since had a friend and then mother... not mother now, but still family that doesn't remember him... who had an issue in this direction. So he had to think about it.]

[wipedclean]

[The question grates at him, because he shouldn't have any emotions, really, but here... here there's nothing stopping him from having every possible emotion. There's no one punishing him for it, either.

He's not sure yet what the result has been on his effectiveness.]

I... have most emotions, I think.

[muscovy]

Do you feel pity?

[There are a lot of other emotions that are important, but especially listening to his father's songs, he got the feeling that pity would be regarded as the crucial one.]