The chicken wondered if it was fair to speak of such things. Especially with the mentor of Gyro Gearloose. The original chicken inventor fancied the old man’s company. If the situation had been slightly different then maybe he would too.
The only thing that he understood was that the well-aged duck was the only one he could speak to about this from a science aspect. The beloved lab assistant and the parrot were too close to Gyro Prime to be able to do this.
He was plagued with emotions when he brought up the unfortunate situation that he found himself in. This was a clear unfair one for him. He would probably never be absolutely certain that he was the original Gyro. The chicken that everyone had apparently loved from the very beginning! If he was not the original then he wished that he could go back in time and kick that idiot in the backside.
The question caught him off guard. He was not sure how to respond at first. His gray eyes clouded over with thought and uncertainty. “ With…both of us?” he responded in a reluctant way. “I…mean that you need not feel the obligation to continue on with a relationship that existed with the Gyro you last saw,” he wrung his hands together and cringed.
What if he lost a friendship with this old man? “ … But, if you’d like… we can start up a new one..”
He was stunned by the second question. That was a striking one! Did…he want to be that Gyro or….
“I want to be Gyro. But I also, want to be a better Gyro.” he said with a determined look in his eyes. “ One that appreciates people more and is maybe a little bit less… mean. Especially to friends and people he…cares about.”
Certainly not what he was wanting to hear from that response to his first question, given that it was pretty clear that this one was not the original. It was not entirely bad, but it was not truly this clone’s place to let him know on whether or not he could talk to Gyro. The clone however was only doing what they thought was right and he could not blame them. If they wanted help, he wouldn’t object to giving it.
One of his cheeks moved a bit back out of uncertainty as he continued to listen to the synthetic Gyro. Ludwig did give his sympathies to the fake chicken for the predicament that they were pushed into, but there were only so many options on where one could truly go on from there. Some of the ideas would be something that others would prefer and the clone wouldn’t, and some would have the clone favor and others would not.
Going off of what he thought about before asking the questions, what would the clone truly want? How would he feel about being someone that he wasn’t? Did he want that? Should it even be allowed for something like this? Can they start over as someone else? Especially if the original were to come back? There were many questions but ultimately Ludwig was unsure on how the other would feel about any of these inquiries.
That was until he heard what the false Gyro say in response to his questions. Some of the things the clone proclaimed could have been misinterpreted for them trying to take control of someone’s life that they had no business trying to replace. Maybe he was asked this by the real Gyro before going missing, but if the clone was as smart as Gyro and wanted to become the better than Gyro but still fill in his position, then that might have been a red flag.
“I’d rader keep my relationship wid de real Gyro open for whenever he does come back or is found, but we could start someding between us. A new relationship dat doesn’t conflict wid dat of de oder one!” the drake prompted as he raised a finger as a gesture. The best way to go about this was to go for both parties and not trying to deny others, but the other answer made things so much more difficult.
“....I’m, not certain if you can be Gyro, even if you look like him. And what would you do if de true Gyro were to come back? How would you be able to justify yourself and your intentions to him? Wanting to be someone to aspire to dem isn’t bad or disgraceful by any means, but it’s best to be your own person, one to not have to deal wid conflict wid de real Gyro whenever he returns.”
