[Very strange. Maybe the bashing is to hide that he was disassembled? Then-]
Probably gone.
[He mumbles, but looks for it anyway. 'CPU' is a term he's only recently learned, but the concept is not so different from Automaton cores that he couldn't understand the purpose.
Anyone that would think to take him apart so precisely likely would also already know at least this much. Would know that 'Wheatley' is as much the core as the body. Maybe more. Leaving it un-destroyed would be a maiming, not a murder.
There wouldn't be a trial. Wouldn't be a reward, otherwise. And this is too violent to be anything other then intentional.
Of course he doesn't say this, though his expression goes from blank to slightly pinched in thought, which just makes him look annoyed]
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Probably gone.
[He mumbles, but looks for it anyway. 'CPU' is a term he's only recently learned, but the concept is not so different from Automaton cores that he couldn't understand the purpose.
Anyone that would think to take him apart so precisely likely would also already know at least this much. Would know that 'Wheatley' is as much the core as the body. Maybe more. Leaving it un-destroyed would be a maiming, not a murder.
There wouldn't be a trial. Wouldn't be a reward, otherwise. And this is too violent to be anything other then intentional.
Of course he doesn't say this, though his expression goes from blank to slightly pinched in thought, which just makes him look annoyed]