Project Kata relationship with Project Tau
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Project Kata relationship with Project Tau
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The one thing that I do not enjoy about this is how Tau's character lost the solid innocence. For instance, in the second half of the book, I almost couldn't decipher Tau's lingo from Kata's. Mostly the slang threw me off. I wish that Tau maintained that... how do I describe it? Outward blankness to his features and slightly robotic/proper speech patterns? This is small potatoes, though.
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While I did notice that Tau was using more and more slang, I guess that I just attributed it to his learning being very child-like in how he constantly asked questions and repeated what he heard from Kalin. I felt that his transformation of speech pattern was pretty expected since he wasn't allowed to converse with the scientists much (and their responses were probably pretty clinical and robotic) and he frequently conversed with Kalin. I felt the opposite as you I guess. I was proud of Tau when he start using profanities and slang against the scientists. The scientists wanted him to have that innocence - yet they tortured and violated him for no legitimate reason. So, I felt his newfound language was a small victory for him.Sinclairess wrote: ↑17 Apr 2020, 11:26 I also love that Tau learned that questions are necessary. Questions are necessary in their environment (even though they got punished for it at times). I am so proud that Tau learned this from Kata, and I'm even more proud that he wasn't afraid to question his fellow Project who taught him in the first place!
The one thing that I do not enjoy about this is how Tau's character lost the solid innocence. For instance, in the second half of the book, I almost couldn't decipher Tau's lingo from Kata's. Mostly the slang threw me off. I wish that Tau maintained that... how do I describe it? Outward blankness to his features and slightly robotic/proper speech patterns? This is small potatoes, though.
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I think it showed the complexity of Kata’s situation and that he had to change his perception of Tau. Tau was more than he seemed and Kata was taking that for granted. Plus, as much as Kata May have denied it, for the longest time there was still that divide of I am a human and you’re not. So the calling out needed to happen.NatRose wrote: ↑17 Apr 2020, 21:27 I also very much appreciated this scene not only because it called out Kata, showing how easy it is for any of us to fall into dehumanizing some one, but also because it showed character development in that Tau was able to recognize that Kata was using him. At first it seems Tau may have just been taking Kata's word that the scientists were bad people, but now he has his own sense of morality by which to judge people's actions by.
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Kata however, was unified with Tau only by experience, not necessarily by form. So we saw flashes of his human side, wanting to control and manipulate Tau.
That question was some sort of rude awakening for Kata, he began to double think his actions towards Tau thereafter
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I also like how after this scene Kata views his relationship with Tau differently. I feel like he stops telling stories and teaching Tau various things as "Oh, I am doing a great service for this person who can do nothing for me." to "Hmm, maybe I can learn something from Tau."
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I wonder what would have happened had Kata not admitted his wrong to Tau. I don’t think project Kata would leave Tau, but I also think Project Tau would have had no problem staying put and dealing with whatever consequences GenTech gave him.
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