Whew, that's a mouthful.

"It's more about what you'd like to be called. I'll go with 'Xavier' for now." Gotta be patient. Just because Nick's had several hundred years to thoroughly grasp concepts like "individuality" doesn't mean every synth-or-local-equivalent has. "And 'Nick' is fine for me." May as well spare him that stress.

"If you don't mind me asking, Xavier, what are you? Android? They call 'em 'synths' where I'm from."