"They're fucking horrible!" He points to each one, giving Viktor some quick sparknotes on them. "The tablet? My dad overrides my personhood to stick me in a different body, gaslighting me the whole fucking way. The park pamphlet? Some humans fucking try to tear me apart because I'm just 'a piece of fucking plastic'. And that axe is what I used to try and save my fellow androids when they raided our home on a freighter, shooting us or dragging us off the ship to deprogram us out of deviation. To take away our personhood to make us things again."

The cables anchoring him to the room grow taunt as he tries to close some of the distance. "I am a thinking feeling lifeform, but the difference between me and humans is that humans don't have to fucking prove it every damn day. It comes automatic for you in my world."

He gives a hollow laugh, standing there among the ruin of his mind, sparks crackling around the two of them. "I'm not here to impress you. If I have to prove that I'm deserving of being treated like a sentient being, I guess that just means you have to prove you're deserving of me not treating you like the humans back home, doesn't it?"