Either this is something that never will happen to Barnaby, or it's a memory that has been locked away behind so many mental walls of trauma and manipulation. Either way, it leaves Barnaby firmly in denial, unable to take a moment to find out which is which.

He doesn't want to feel this. Angry and appalled and nauseous and horrified and miserable. He doesn't know whether to feel these things for the android in front of him or because of the android.

A brother. He had a brother. Who had access to his parents' research and was able to design something that looked so much like Kotetsu...

But it's not. It's not him. And he's not real, and he isn't telling the truth.

If Barnaby accepts that he's telling the truth, then he has to accept that he couldn't save his brother from falling into madness. That Maverick had hurt someone else important to him.

"If he wasn't healthy, he would have come after me. I don't believe this," he hisses out between clenched teeth.