I didn't know you were on Lothal… The trained ear picked that up as odd.
People reported the deviation from their expectations, not the expected. A Human wouldn't bother describing another Human as having two legs, but they would report if they only had one. If you were speaking to someone you'd never met, over a comm, you could guess things about their species based on how they described others. If someone bothered to say that a Human had hair, they themselves were likelier to be Twi'lek or Togruta, whose normal was none. If they bothered to say a Besalisk had four arms, they were likelier to be Human who took two arms for granted.
Jyn knew next to nothing about Cassian. Why would she comment on one particular unknown?
"Should you have known?" he asked; not as if he'd caught her out, but genuinely puzzled.
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Date: 2025-05-08 07:26 pm (UTC)People reported the deviation from their expectations, not the expected. A Human wouldn't bother describing another Human as having two legs, but they would report if they only had one. If you were speaking to someone you'd never met, over a comm, you could guess things about their species based on how they described others. If someone bothered to say that a Human had hair, they themselves were likelier to be Twi'lek or Togruta, whose normal was none. If they bothered to say a Besalisk had four arms, they were likelier to be Human who took two arms for granted.
Jyn knew next to nothing about Cassian. Why would she comment on one particular unknown?
"Should you have known?" he asked; not as if he'd caught her out, but genuinely puzzled.