[ Danse gives it good reason to think it might, too. He doesn't freeze completely, but the tension in his posture is immediate, clear, accompanied by a reflexively clenched fist on the hand that can do that without pain right now.
"You must be the courser." "Yes, ma'am. Designation X6-88." "My data analysis indicates that "Paladin Danse" and "Unit M7-97" are one and the same--" ]
What the hell kind of name is that?
[ It shouldn't actually matter what kind of name it is, or why SecUnit goes by it. If Danse can tolerate that damn courser--the one who could erase his mind and enslave him again with a single command, the one who proudly answers to an alphanumeric jumble and doesn't flinch at all when Danse calls him "it," the one people don't make "tin can" jokes about or mock for robotic turns of phrase the way they do with Danse, because the courser can talk and laugh and swear like a person with social skills when he actually wants to--then this should bother him less, not more, because it's not like that Institute sycophant would have bothered to save Danse from raiders. It's just a little too close to home for comfort, too new and too raw. ]
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"You must be the courser." "Yes, ma'am. Designation X6-88."
"My data analysis indicates that "Paladin Danse" and "Unit M7-97" are one and the same--" ]
What the hell kind of name is that?
[ It shouldn't actually matter what kind of name it is, or why SecUnit goes by it. If Danse can tolerate that damn courser--the one who could erase his mind and enslave him again with a single command, the one who proudly answers to an alphanumeric jumble and doesn't flinch at all when Danse calls him "it," the one people don't make "tin can" jokes about or mock for robotic turns of phrase the way they do with Danse, because the courser can talk and laugh and swear like a person with social skills when he actually wants to--then this should bother him less, not more, because it's not like that Institute sycophant would have bothered to save Danse from raiders. It's just a little too close to home for comfort, too new and too raw. ]
What exactly are you?