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[thesuspense]

Did any good come from your parents?

[Perhaps that seems like a personal question. He does not care.]

What's the point of family?

[Now, this may seem cynical, and it possibly is, but he doesn't really sound it. He doesn't seem bitter, he smiled a little, then looks to a point off-screen.]

See, daozhang? I'm trying.

[A pause, then he corrects himself with a wave of one hand.]

Hear.

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video | @taken for granite

[rumorate]

Parents and family are two different things.

[At least in her opinion.]

Good can only come from your parents if they're prepared to make the effort. But family is who you choose.

video | @chengmei

[thesuspense]

Ah.

[There is a pause, as this is something that has never occurred to him. However, he remembers that he does have a purpose for that question.]

So, I take it your parents were pointless?

[rumorate]

One was. One was a robot, so she was literally programmed to be useful.

[But she was the only mother she's ever really known so she's willing to give Grace the credit.]

[thesuspense]

[Obvious confusion on his face, because he has never come across the term 'robot' before, so he just has to ask.]

Like a slave? A servant?

[rumorate]

Uhh ...

[She should be used to having to explain these things by now and yet.]

A robot is a machine that's designed to behave like a person. So I guess ... servant would be the most accurate, but slave isn't wrong in the sense that they're not normally compensated the way humans are.

[thesuspense]

Ah. I see.

[And he is thinking about fierce corpses here, that he can command, so the comparison may not be flattering or accurate, but at least he believes he understands.]

Did you feel wanted then? As a child.

[rumorate]

[That's a complicated question.]

Not as a child. My father wanted weapons, and that he got in spades.