He just nods - he might have realised that he can be a little more open with them about the things that make him faulty, but he has still been trained all his life to follow orders, and the Marshal is very clearly the authority here. It doesn't occur to him that there's another option beyond just doing what he's told - magitek troopers aren't expected to be captured, so it's not like he had orders for that eventuality, and even the idea that he was being held by people who were technically his enemy required a level of understanding and belief far beyond what they ever thought he'd have - you don't need to teach a machine who the enemy is, just which targets to shoot at, and for all that the magitek troopers start off human, they are very much treated as machines by the people who deploy them.
Once Cor leaves, the scientists move to run their tests. They have to cut him out of the bodysuit - once they determine doing so won't cause him any injury - so by the time Cor gets back he's dressed in a disposable hospital gown that somehow makes it even more obvious that he's just a slender, ordinary young man.
They've done every scan they can think of, and are ready to inform the marshal on his return that he has every appearance of being human - though with some abnormalities that they need to run further tests to identify. They've taken the blood samples, hair samples, cheek swabs; everything they can get without resorting to a biopsy. The only problem is... now they have no idea what to do with him.
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Date: 2023-01-23 01:03 am (UTC)He just nods - he might have realised that he can be a little more open with them about the things that make him faulty, but he has still been trained all his life to follow orders, and the Marshal is very clearly the authority here. It doesn't occur to him that there's another option beyond just doing what he's told - magitek troopers aren't expected to be captured, so it's not like he had orders for that eventuality, and even the idea that he was being held by people who were technically his enemy required a level of understanding and belief far beyond what they ever thought he'd have - you don't need to teach a machine who the enemy is, just which targets to shoot at, and for all that the magitek troopers start off human, they are very much treated as machines by the people who deploy them.
Once Cor leaves, the scientists move to run their tests. They have to cut him out of the bodysuit - once they determine doing so won't cause him any injury - so by the time Cor gets back he's dressed in a disposable hospital gown that somehow makes it even more obvious that he's just a slender, ordinary young man.
They've done every scan they can think of, and are ready to inform the marshal on his return that he has every appearance of being human - though with some abnormalities that they need to run further tests to identify. They've taken the blood samples, hair samples, cheek swabs; everything they can get without resorting to a biopsy. The only problem is... now they have no idea what to do with him.