[Akemi eyes the paper cup with a combination of suspicion and undisguised longing. Something he said must have changed Jack's tone, if only slightly, but damned if he can figure out what it was. Handsome Jack doesn't really seem like the family type, and nor does he seem like he's overly concerned with the next evolution of the human race. Whatever it was that piqued his fickle interests, Akemi doesn't intend to let it go to waste.
For a moment, he thought that Jack might actually kill him... and for a moment, Akemi felt an ice cold shiver of primal fear run down his spine like proof that he's still human. Ah, so that part of himself is still there after all. What kind of person would he have become if he'd embraced his humanity instead of seeking to transcend it?
Probably someone really boring.]
That's quite an offer, Handsome Jack. I won't pretend I'm not interested.
[There had been a point Akemi's life when he would have flat-out refused an offer to work for the Company, but that had also been a point in his life where he wasn't bound and awaiting transfer to a secure mental rehabilitation center (AKA a mining labor camp run by psychologists, which is somehow even more insulting than a normal labor camp). So even though he opposes the Company's stifling restrictions on human modification, the idea of 1.) not dying and 2.) not having to worry about stingy research grant boards does hold some appeal.]
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For a moment, he thought that Jack might actually kill him... and for a moment, Akemi felt an ice cold shiver of primal fear run down his spine like proof that he's still human. Ah, so that part of himself is still there after all. What kind of person would he have become if he'd embraced his humanity instead of seeking to transcend it?
Probably someone really boring.]
That's quite an offer, Handsome Jack. I won't pretend I'm not interested.
[There had been a point Akemi's life when he would have flat-out refused an offer to work for the Company, but that had also been a point in his life where he wasn't bound and awaiting transfer to a secure mental rehabilitation center (AKA a mining labor camp run by psychologists, which is somehow even more insulting than a normal labor camp). So even though he opposes the Company's stifling restrictions on human modification, the idea of 1.) not dying and 2.) not having to worry about stingy research grant boards does hold some appeal.]
But what's in it for you?