His gaze drops from some distant point on the wall (or perhaps far, far beyond it) to his claws, his gauntlets, his arms and chest, all the things that were shaped in his own image. All of the things that make him Neo instead of just "Metal Sonic". He is still "Metal Sonic", of course, as that is his designation, he is merely an upgraded form, one better suited to the task of killing.
And yet Sonic has chosen to address him by this name instead of the one he's always used.
He doesn't know what it means - and any assumptions he could make would likely be off the mark or completely wrong - but it means something. It's important. Maybe not in the grand scheme of things but... It's important to him.]
...Yes. [He doesn't like admitting weakness. He doesn't want to admit it. But he's already said as much, so there's no sense in pretending otherwise.] This place has caused me to question things I never had a reason to question before.
[As for the rest...]
I am not like you, nor am I like your friends. I am a machine; lines of code and mechanisms unified through the Doctor's genius. I cannot be anything other than what I was made to be. I cannot deny my purpose any more than you can stop breathing, or stop your heart from beating.
Your... patience would be appreciated by anyone else. But I am incapable of such a thing. Surely you must see that this is a waste of your time.
[He wants Sonic to agree. He wants Sonic to go back to treating him like just another enemy. He wants everything to go back to the way it was.
...And yet, he can't help but wonder what it would be like if Sonic argued with him.]
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His gaze drops from some distant point on the wall (or perhaps far, far beyond it) to his claws, his gauntlets, his arms and chest, all the things that were shaped in his own image. All of the things that make him Neo instead of just "Metal Sonic". He is still "Metal Sonic", of course, as that is his designation, he is merely an upgraded form, one better suited to the task of killing.
And yet Sonic has chosen to address him by this name instead of the one he's always used.
He doesn't know what it means - and any assumptions he could make would likely be off the mark or completely wrong - but it means something. It's important. Maybe not in the grand scheme of things but... It's important to him.]
...Yes. [He doesn't like admitting weakness. He doesn't want to admit it. But he's already said as much, so there's no sense in pretending otherwise.] This place has caused me to question things I never had a reason to question before.
[As for the rest...]
I am not like you, nor am I like your friends. I am a machine; lines of code and mechanisms unified through the Doctor's genius. I cannot be anything other than what I was made to be. I cannot deny my purpose any more than you can stop breathing, or stop your heart from beating.
Your... patience would be appreciated by anyone else. But I am incapable of such a thing. Surely you must see that this is a waste of your time.
[He wants Sonic to agree. He wants Sonic to go back to treating him like just another enemy. He wants everything to go back to the way it was.
...And yet, he can't help but wonder what it would be like if Sonic argued with him.]