"It seems a lot of worlds have, uhm, b-bad associations with the word monster. I thought maybe it might have been, uh, a reaction from the war, but most worlds don't seem to have monsters like us? So... I'm not sure how it came up." She's a scientist, not a linguist. But she's used to having this kind of conversation by now.

She does tilt her head a bit when he asks about attacks, because it doesn't even register the connotations of that for a moment. "Oh, well, they can be, but t-they don't have to be. Monsters have, uh, individualized bullet patterns, that we use for greeting, and talking, and just... expression. It's like... friendly fighting? But not, uh, everybody does it or anything. It's n-not really my thing." Mostly because she's a fairly weak monster, but... that's not relevant. "I'm not sure I'm, uh, explaining this properly. It's hard to translate well to people outside the culture, I g-guess."