Nnoitra stayed quiet, doing his best to ignore both Szayel and Hojo, but he couldn't make himself concentrate on the paper even if he tried.
Being referred to as a 'Specimen' irritated him, but he kept a lid on that enough to keep his Chakra from flaring noticeably.
It wasn't because the term dehumanised them, it was because it reminded him of the appalling photographs of a half-flayed Behemoth he had once caught a glimpse of in his mother's research. He shouldn't have been looking, but the sight of that creature, huge and known for its ferocity, lying motionless on a slab and covered in tubes and wires, skin peeled back and flesh pulled apart, midway through some horrific process that necessitated evil looking metal pins being shoved directly into the bones of its hands had stuck with him.
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Date: 2015-01-13 10:44 pm (UTC)Being referred to as a 'Specimen' irritated him, but he kept a lid on that enough to keep his Chakra from flaring noticeably.
It wasn't because the term dehumanised them, it was because it reminded him of the appalling photographs of a half-flayed Behemoth he had once caught a glimpse of in his mother's research. He shouldn't have been looking, but the sight of that creature, huge and known for its ferocity, lying motionless on a slab and covered in tubes and wires, skin peeled back and flesh pulled apart, midway through some horrific process that necessitated evil looking metal pins being shoved directly into the bones of its hands had stuck with him.