They're still people, Verstael. Unconventional, certainly, but people with their own thoughts and feelings. I don't give a damn what they're comprised of or what's missing from their memories.

[If their bodies are gone and their minds are gone-]

[It struck too close to a nerve for Ardyn--with a physical form that was barely even real and a mind full of blank spots and holes. What were they left with? What was he left with?]

It's as I said. You don't trust them, so why should they trust you? I wouldn't have trusted you if you offered to craft me a human form one way or another, and after all this I doubt they ever will.