[It's important to Canderous. And Mando'a was important to Rex. And it had been comforting to find some way to better match the only other clone here. But the history isn't his. Its absence doesn't hurt, because it was never there.]
[But he does have some curiosity, left over from when he was a cadet. He never asked the questions himself, not that he can remember, but others did: why were they who they were? The answer they got basically boiled down to "You're taken from the template because he was good enough." But that didn't say much.]
I want to know. [And maybe, it could tell him what parts of his own thinking were his own, and which were conditioning. If that could ever be pulled apart at all.]
[He doubted it was a reason he was supposed to be curious, by the mandalorian's standards. But his job wasn't to editorialize on that. What he was wouldn't change, but maybe he could figure out what that meant for him.]
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[But he does have some curiosity, left over from when he was a cadet. He never asked the questions himself, not that he can remember, but others did: why were they who they were? The answer they got basically boiled down to "You're taken from the template because he was good enough." But that didn't say much.]
I want to know. [And maybe, it could tell him what parts of his own thinking were his own, and which were conditioning. If that could ever be pulled apart at all.]
[He doubted it was a reason he was supposed to be curious, by the mandalorian's standards. But his job wasn't to editorialize on that. What he was wouldn't change, but maybe he could figure out what that meant for him.]