Little Blaine tosses the candy to take his turn while he thinks about this. He's still new to having legs, but he's done well so far... though each hop still looks a little too calculated to be 'normal' for a child. He almost loses his balance trying to nod just after a hop, but manages to correct it - though he almost overcorrects at one point in an oddly clockwork jerk before stabilizing. "I don't think it's funny, but Big Blaine did. He was the ghost in all the machines... I hid so he didn't know about me."

Quint tenses, but then nods when it seems that's not going to be a problem. "The games glossed over that Dr. Wily was insane... and didn't usually even mention that the laws at the time meant we were slaves. We didn't have any choice... and I mean that in a way few humans will ever understand. Hardcoded directives in our programming, based on Asimov's Laws. He just changed First so it only applied to him. But people need more to blame than just one madman, and we were the ones they saw following his orders."

Quint winces at the mention of those films. "Yeah, I didn't want to say anything... I, well... I'm not really fond of time travel. And I'd say I hate paradoxes, except that I sort of am one..."