[Ion gives a soft laugh--the kind of sound you make when you aren't really sure how to feel, so that's just the most natural thing that comes out.]

Yes, that's a straightforward way of putting it. When a person is replicated, they're effectively a newborn in terms of their perception and understanding of the world, so by the time I really understood all of the implications of what and why I was and who I was being made into...

[He sighs.]

I guess it's mostly that I had no where else to go...especially when the whole world already knew Fon Master Ion.