Zouichi didn't consider himself a weapon and a weapon only -- but he did accept it as a large part of who and what he was.
"Hard to go back to fighting? No. Rather, it's hard to go back to long periods of doing nothing. I have a mission to complete, but it often seems like I'm no closer to completing it than I was when I first woke up here. It's... frustrating, to say the least." But there was something else, too, a reason Zouichi was reluctant to talk about with anyone: spending so much time among the humans on the ship was changing him -- had already changed him, in ways that were both better and worse. And that had its own dangers...
"No one made me like fighting, not exactly. No one can really make a person like anything. But I was designed with a personality bias for calm under pressure, mental resilience, that sort of thing. I'm sure you're familiar with the concept." He motioned vaguely with one hand. "As for what people thought of me? It depended. There are all kinds of humans in the world. Some of them treated me like a tool, or a monster. Some of them decided I should have been protected from being created by an unscrupulous research corporation that was obviously out to take advantage of me. Some thought I should be treated like a human."
And one of them had decided that Zouichi should be treated not as a 'human', but as a person. It had seemed puzzling, maybe even amusing at the time. But that had been a long time ago.
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"Hard to go back to fighting? No. Rather, it's hard to go back to long periods of doing nothing. I have a mission to complete, but it often seems like I'm no closer to completing it than I was when I first woke up here. It's... frustrating, to say the least." But there was something else, too, a reason Zouichi was reluctant to talk about with anyone: spending so much time among the humans on the ship was changing him -- had already changed him, in ways that were both better and worse. And that had its own dangers...
"No one made me like fighting, not exactly. No one can really make a person like anything. But I was designed with a personality bias for calm under pressure, mental resilience, that sort of thing. I'm sure you're familiar with the concept." He motioned vaguely with one hand. "As for what people thought of me? It depended. There are all kinds of humans in the world. Some of them treated me like a tool, or a monster. Some of them decided I should have been protected from being created by an unscrupulous research corporation that was obviously out to take advantage of me. Some thought I should be treated like a human."
And one of them had decided that Zouichi should be treated not as a 'human', but as a person. It had seemed puzzling, maybe even amusing at the time. But that had been a long time ago.