Tim doesn't have a huge basis with how parents treat their children when taking them to the doctors. His own parents didn't spend a lot of time in the country, and the time they did spend was busy with Drake Industries, not doctor visits.
"I don't think I can really comment on parents and how they treat their children? I don't think I remember any visits to a GP with my parents and once I was with my adopted family, well the family butler had enough training for most of it."
He shrugs, he realises it's not the most normal of situations even without mentioning Batman.
"It is a good reason though, hospitals aren't comforting places the majority of the time and when no one will explain anything to you I imagine it's worse."
Tim visibly leans back and away from Bashir when he explains about the Tendu, like he needs distance from the very words themselves.
"I know different cultures have different practises but I don't think I could ever understand eating your own."
"You must understand, it's not like eating a human child." He takes a sip of tea before continuing, "There is very little accessible protein on their world and they regularly produce a significant number of eggs, which if tended can hatch into a larval stage. These larvae are not 'Tendu', are not people until they've pupated a second time - an act that requires an additional fertilization." Bashir's 'verse is already so much weirder than Duplicity and from his tone of voice, he doesn't judge these people in the slightest.
"Occasionally larvae do get out of their pools, and they can grow into larger creatures, but they never develop into Tendu."
"I suggest the next time you bring the Tendu up, you might want to start with that explanation, rather than jumping straight to 'they eat their own young' although I don't think they eat their own what? larvae? inner biological reproductive stuff is a whole lot less... unsettling."
Tim makes a distasteful face at the idea. He thinks he might have been more comfortable talking about alien genitals.
"Nymphs, perhaps. They're alive, they swim separately from their biological parents, but aren't particularly more aware than, say, a tadpole." Bashir is clearly unbothered, but he's used to this sort of thing. "In any event, this is a strange place, but it's hardly the worst of the lot."
"No I suppose it's not but I don't really like to rank places on their awfulness. It reminds me that there's really more than like one for the list."
Tim says it in a joking tone, not trying to bring the mood down or anything.
"I will admit, there are a lot of worst scenarios that my mind can come up with but I don't wish to speak them out loud in case someone unwanted overhears and decides to implement it in this city."
"...does that happen often?" It's not impossible, but Bashir has heard of stranger things. If they're all inside some sort of holodeck-type simulation, it would explain the 'magic' nonsense. Although, there's no way to prove it or enact an escape.
"Taking our ideas specifically to use against us? No, I haven't heard of it happening but I'm not taking any chances there. They have proved they have ways of plucking bad memories from us and haunting us with them."
He's seen visions of dead friends and horrors from Gotham here more than once before.
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"I don't think I can really comment on parents and how they treat their children? I don't think I remember any visits to a GP with my parents and once I was with my adopted family, well the family butler had enough training for most of it."
He shrugs, he realises it's not the most normal of situations even without mentioning Batman.
"It is a good reason though, hospitals aren't comforting places the majority of the time and when no one will explain anything to you I imagine it's worse."
Tim visibly leans back and away from Bashir when he explains about the Tendu, like he needs distance from the very words themselves.
"I know different cultures have different practises but I don't think I could ever understand eating your own."
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"Occasionally larvae do get out of their pools, and they can grow into larger creatures, but they never develop into Tendu."
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Tim makes a distasteful face at the idea. He thinks he might have been more comfortable talking about alien genitals.
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Tim says it in a joking tone, not trying to bring the mood down or anything.
"I will admit, there are a lot of worst scenarios that my mind can come up with but I don't wish to speak them out loud in case someone unwanted overhears and decides to implement it in this city."
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He's seen visions of dead friends and horrors from Gotham here more than once before.
"I'm sorry, I don't mean to worry you."