[Billy is one of the ones who has to be hailed when he comes in for food, but he meekly sits down on the outskirts of the gathering, listening without much contribution.
But he chimes up eventually.]
I-is anyone else, um, bothered by the phrasing in this booklet? Like- like where it says, um.
Well, where it describes us like how somebody... somebody playing us should act.
[He blinks, hard.]
I-I wonder if we're here because of some kind of... experiment. To see if we're a product of our flawed backgrounds or if we have an innate nature that- that matches this observed description. If they're testing us to see if we're capable of- of murder when we get desperate, and maybe then they have a backup, um. A backup version of us to put through the same test.
...You know, now that I think of it, maybe it has something to do with our missing memories- maybe, maybe we're not actually who we think we are, maybe we're just copies that think that we're the originals. It's not impossible to copy people like that, all it would really take is a sample of our DNA and the right machinery. And they- they could have gotten the samples when we were all unconscious before we woke up here.
[His tone of voice has gotten more excitable as he turned the topic to science, real passion straightening his spine and bringing a fever-bright excitement to his eyes.]
On Certain...Resemblances and also the Playbill
But he chimes up eventually.]
I-is anyone else, um, bothered by the phrasing in this booklet? Like- like where it says, um.
Well, where it describes us like how somebody... somebody playing us should act.
[He blinks, hard.]
I-I wonder if we're here because of some kind of... experiment. To see if we're a product of our flawed backgrounds or if we have an innate nature that- that matches this observed description. If they're testing us to see if we're capable of- of murder when we get desperate, and maybe then they have a backup, um. A backup version of us to put through the same test.
...You know, now that I think of it, maybe it has something to do with our missing memories- maybe, maybe we're not actually who we think we are, maybe we're just copies that think that we're the originals. It's not impossible to copy people like that, all it would really take is a sample of our DNA and the right machinery. And they- they could have gotten the samples when we were all unconscious before we woke up here.
[His tone of voice has gotten more excitable as he turned the topic to science, real passion straightening his spine and bringing a fever-bright excitement to his eyes.]