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[When the feed clicks on, it's shaking slightly, and a man with strange eyes is staring at it from under his sunglasses like he's half-expecting it to explode.]

So this thing is visible to anyone who is connected, huh?

[Someone says something just off camera and he smirks.]

In that case, I just have one question.

Are there any bars in New Bark Town?

[Priorities.]

Action- New Bark Town

[And get an immediate answer or not, Geed is going to wander the town with the strange cat thing following close by. This feels much closer to the freedom he had been searching for in the first place, even if there is a nagging sensation in the back of his mind that something is extremely off.

Really, he can't be worried. He's escaped the bitch as far as he's concerned so he's going to be stopping every single person he runs into to ask about the town hoping he can learn something useful because he sure as hell can't blend in. He might as well stick out in the most obnoxious way possible.

At least it'll get him noticed.]

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Very well, then --- the novel is Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelly. Essentially, the titular character, Victor Frankenstein, creates an artificial human through means that aren't exactly disclosed to the reader. There's a reason for this --- it's told in the first person perspective, and Frankenstein is deeply ashamed of his creation. He abandons the creation shortly after giving him life.

The artificial human is unable to connect with, well, natural humans; there's something distinctly offputting about him that repulses a family that he attempts to learn from. He is distinctly intelligent, however --- and between his abandonment by his creator and his inability to relate to humans, he swears revenge.

[That's.... well.

The pure horror on his face actually pretty well sums up how accurate of a summary that is about his own life. He opens and closes his mouth several times in an attempt to say anything at all, even something completely flippant, but nothing comes out.

He finally manages out a tinny sort of laugh.]

That's a hell of a story.

[...well, that's certainly telling.]

It certainly is. Actually, I've been able to find a version of it here, but it's... a bit different, I'd say.

[He's managed to mostly recover now, though he still looks faintly disturbed.]

Yeah? How so?

Well, it's about Pokemon, of course. Everything in this world is about Pokemon.

...it's a bit strange, honestly...

...Somehow that doesn't surprise me.

Better magical animals than people.

True enough, I suppose.

Regardless, I've always had a bit of an issue with the sorts of people in these things who have some sort of horrified reactions to their creations.

In the case of homunculi I'd be willing to say the reaction is primal.

We're not born looking human.

Ah, I see. Something more... unsettling, perhaps?

You could say that.

It's one of those instinctive fear things, I believe.

So I see... well, that's still something you ought to be able to keep at bay if you're going to attempt to play God. That's really not something for the faint of heart in the first place.

You're right, it should be.

But it seems like it's in human nature to begin with, if the novel you're talking about discusses the same thing.

Well, perhaps. I'll admit, there are some things that even I find a bit unsettling... nevertheless, we mages are the sorts who don't like to let things like human nature get in our way.

[Sure. Uh-huh. He believes you.]

Are you saying you don't mind doing immoral things if it gets the job done?

Well, I have standards, obviously. We do have our personal codes, but they're reasonably permissive in comparison to most moral guidelines.

[He smirks.]

We all have standards. It's just a matter of whether or not those standards line up with what other people like to call "normal" or not.

Oh, certainly. But given that most other people are idiots who have no idea what they're talking about... well, they're really not worth paying much mind.

Of course not. Especially when it comes to so-called pacifists. I've never understood the mindset.

It's an extremely complicated form of self-gratification and possibly masochism, I'd imagine. Granted, that mindset isn't exactly "normal" either...

I imagine they get something from it, but hell if I know what.

I really can't imagine it, myself.

Then again, you wouldn't believe the sorts of things people put themselves through in the name of getting to feel high and mighty.

Oh believe me, I would, actually. I've seen it time and time again.

Well, it is entirely possible to see things plenty of times and refuse to believe them out of spite.

[trust him, he would know]

[Would an undead monster person happen to be one of those things?]

I'd call that human nature, honestly.

...We all have our petty vices.

[naw, just poor people]

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