#shaking head means 'yes' in bulgaria n southern albania why shouldnt a different colony on a different continent have a different opinion

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Wait wait now I dont know if Im misinterpreting anything but

Doesn't the game canon actually acknowledge the iterators' personhood to some degree? The one pearl about political discourse in Metropolis, "parental obligations," and recognizing the iterator has likes and dislikes. Like sure theyre slaves but I dont think objects is how the Ancients really saw them.

not to be like. mean or anything. but i do keep stating that i am very much not aiming to stick to canon with this stuff. i am refering to my things as the Serotonin Take for a reason. i do with this what makes Me happy no matter how much it goes against the finer details of canon

but if i gotta bullshit an explanation, here:

1. the teacher is biased towards this conclusion because of his personal experiences and opinions. just like some iterators may see themselves as personhood-less and more machine-like, some Ancients are going to see them as weird objects. this ideology, even if possibly not accepted in the whole society, might be seen as beneficial for a certain field 2. it's a result of Boreas' attitude towards just about everything. Boreas is both the one who carries the capital city of the Eo group and the iterator all the students familiarize with first. looking after his systems and dealing with him as they would with their ultimately assigned iterator is a final test for the Mechanics. the idea that Boreas' grumpy very callous-like self is all the teacher knows isn't such a far fetched idea because of his importance 3. different continent, strikingly different history, strikingly different opinions

i originally went out of my way to establish the Eo group on a completely different continent Specifically so i could have a free reign on the local opinions, ideas, politics- just about everything except the Global Religion and the status quo of higher and lower circles in the Ancients' society- once again- for the sake of my enjoyment derived from worldbuilding without having to constantly lose my shit over possibly not conforming to canon