Huh... I've never thought of it that way. You're right, though, none of my physical human traits manifest themselves in digital space. When I'm there, my body only obeys the laws of code. I'm curious now, though... if I only started becoming human when I began exploring real-world space...
[He closed his eyes and tried to think, but he couldn't remember much about his childhood. He was very young when he substantiated himself for the first time; he was still in his original stage after gaining consciousness, no longer an "egg" shape but resembling a "spiked softball with eyes", as one of the humans who worked in the lab described it. Didn't he have his father's DNA all along, though? Or was his development only triggered when he entered the realm where humans lived? What might have happened if he had never jumped through that screen?]
...Heh... There's a lot that I still don't know about myself... No one's ever studied me or anything else like me, then again, I'm the only one of my kind that I know of.
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[He closed his eyes and tried to think, but he couldn't remember much about his childhood. He was very young when he substantiated himself for the first time; he was still in his original stage after gaining consciousness, no longer an "egg" shape but resembling a "spiked softball with eyes", as one of the humans who worked in the lab described it. Didn't he have his father's DNA all along, though? Or was his development only triggered when he entered the realm where humans lived? What might have happened if he had never jumped through that screen?]
...Heh... There's a lot that I still don't know about myself... No one's ever studied me or anything else like me, then again, I'm the only one of my kind that I know of.