[With the question successfully dodged, he could relax a little. What to ask...? Truth be told, Copy X was hardly the sort of person who spent a lot of time focusing on other people. He was genuinely curious about her, but he wasn't too sure where to begin. There was a childlike interest in what she was, of course -- what the extent of her abilities was, what she looked like without the humanization, things like that -- but there was also a vague curiosity about who she was. He could count on one hand the people who'd been openly kind to him without putting him in X's shadow or carrying some sort of ulterior motive. Though the naive part of him wanted to hope she was one of them, the cynic mostly just hoped to suss out what her motive happened to be.
Nothing to be gained by being blatantly suspicious, though. He cast around for a question that was neutral, but not boring.]
Well... if you could be absolutely anything you wanted to, then what would you be?
["What do you want to be when you grow up," admittedly, was a bit of a childish thing to toss out there, but didn't the things a person hoped for say a lot about them?]
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[With the question successfully dodged, he could relax a little. What to ask...? Truth be told, Copy X was hardly the sort of person who spent a lot of time focusing on other people. He was genuinely curious about her, but he wasn't too sure where to begin. There was a childlike interest in what she was, of course -- what the extent of her abilities was, what she looked like without the humanization, things like that -- but there was also a vague curiosity about who she was. He could count on one hand the people who'd been openly kind to him without putting him in X's shadow or carrying some sort of ulterior motive. Though the naive part of him wanted to hope she was one of them, the cynic mostly just hoped to suss out what her motive happened to be.
Nothing to be gained by being blatantly suspicious, though. He cast around for a question that was neutral, but not boring.]
Well... if you could be absolutely anything you wanted to, then what would you be?
["What do you want to be when you grow up," admittedly, was a bit of a childish thing to toss out there, but didn't the things a person hoped for say a lot about them?]