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Its the Exo Triplets! left to right: Gaelan-4, Adrien-2, Cato-5 and their ghost, Dad.
I thought the food thing was about feeding. Like eating to survive is wired down to sheer instinct. You need the act of feeding. Like. Yeah, some people can't eat "normally" but they still eat. If you don't eat the food, you don't have the energy to substain your body, so your body die. The way you feed isn't important, just need the whole: I've done a thing to help maintain my body functionnal, ergo I'm not a mental mimicry trapped into a corpse. It's also easier to trick your brain into thinking that if you act it out.
There's probably someone better than me who could write about this, but it's been bothering me how Exos are depicted as body horror due to the "They Can't Do Human Things So They Go Craaaaaaazy!!" thing. Some of the points for that could be valid, like how impending doom is a sign of a heart attack because your body is telling your brain something is off so how would it feel for your mind to get zero feedback from major organs? Probably bad.
However, not physically eating food is something that many real life humans deal with and it does not make people lose their minds. I'm sure adults who get feeding tubes later in life miss tasting certain things, but not participating in the physical act of eating food does not make people "go crazy". Not being able to eat making Exos "go crazy" is the like one big thing people explaining Exos to me emphasized. I want people to understand that, despite it being depicted this way, not being able to physically eat does not work like that in real life.
Not being able to physically eat is the norm for more people in real life than people realize. Destiny using it like this feels very similar to how some body horror depends on differences in physical appearances being "scary" but they'll use real conditions people have as "inspiration" even if it was not intentional. I'm sure this is the result of people not being exposed to things in real life, but they are things people should be aware of.
Science fiction uses horror to ask questions about the world and the answer to 'If You Can't Do "Typical Human" Things Can You Stay Sane??' is usually yes.
Edit: My point specifically is that tying "sanity" to body functions is probably more ablest than it isn't because people exist with a wider variety of body experiences than most people would think.
Clovis bray did nothing wrong infact he did something very right which is making exos
Love me some exo designs>>
Exo Rasputin | Exo Clovis Bray AI + a lil chibi ref of Red's outfit
Gosh I love Red so much and absolutely despise Clovis shchvjdtfhv. He is so hateable while Red is wonderful and we all love him.
Now I wanna see them throw hands >:]
I still think about this dialogue like once a week. One of the peaks of Destiny story telling and character development, for sure
