[There's a pause before Thad eventually switches over from Text to Voice. There's none of the snark or sharp bite he usually throws Rico's way, his voice instead soft, matter of fact and with an odd touch of southern twang, as he falls into speaking English instead of Interlac for once.]

I think I can understand that to an extent.

Our situations aren't entirely the same, but there was definitely...expectations behind my creation. And there wasn't so much a pride in lineage as there was pride in the mission and the attempted reclamation of that lineage.

But I can definitely relate to a preference to being my own person over-...I suppose I would be considered less of a representation and more of an extension of will?...Over whatever it is I am.