Wow, Grate's kind of a dick. Not that we didn't know that already.
He doesn't want to be treated like a kid. Instead of getting a tool, he got a toy. See why he's mad?
One of the more interesting aspects of the time discontinuity that will be arising is that Grate will finally grow up.
He's already most of the way there. The question is, what will it take for people to stop treating him like a kid?
I know right? An action figure! Of Gilgamesh, the battlesuit that can do orbital rescue! One of a kind! Hand crafted! With space magic!
I'm so jealous.
Well...two things to consider.
One, you guys implied that it would be something neat, or at least something I didn't already know existed.
Two, you gave Grate a toy because no one's letting him use his Nyars device.
Sorry, Cael, but until I figure out how to weaponize a freaking action figure, I'm gonna need to keep that alien power source.
Didn't understand the reason too well, but no problem.
It's really agency. Familiar with the term? Grate is, though he's never actually seen it. It basically means that you matter in the story.
((Respect is something to be conquered GWG.))
Reread Grate's soliloquy. He was chosen to be part of the team at Hephaestus; some amount of respect is implied with that.
Grate's mostly annoyed because everyone's treating him like a kid. He doesn't want to be a kid--he wants to be a functioning ARM member.
)-a civ, and therefore a race, was chosen randomly.