Simulates human emotions

I was taking a small risk of anthropomorphizing him, but I suspected that he was using an ability to generate a simulacrum of a human personality so that he could better interface and communicate with the humans. That simulation allowed him a pale imitation of human emotions, and it was what had kept him in a funk for the past decades. It had enough control over him that he'd never bothered switching it off.

In a way, it was the inverse of my own ability to switch my emotions off. His version didn't provide emotions with a human intensity; without biological glands and brain chemicals I doubted that was possible without overcompensating, which it didn't look like he had done.

Still, it was becoming more and more clear that he was depressed, and I could use that.

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Impact