"I don't expect it to, but if it does, that'll be a new thing we've found out about my power!"

"True..."

"It's a three-way date, then."

"If I have you talking to the bot, what am I supposed to do, hide in the parts closet?"

"Well, the two ideas in my mind are me talking to both of you at the same time, or whoever-it-is coming to my room so that if it turns out not to be you you can tinker or do stuff with your time that isn't boring."

"Won't be able to take my helmet off or anything, the bot only knows how to operate joints, not a face."

"Yeah, that makes sense."

"Actually, do the copy suits you make even have anything in them? They'd just need the armor and enough weight to behave the way the bot expects."

"I have no idea if they have anything in them, and I'm pretty sure a thorough enough inspection would squint them away."

"Ha, okay."

"All they'd need to do would be generate the right output for your bot to notice, right? I mean, Occam's Razor would say it probably has at least some stuff inside, but my power pretty much runs on bullpoop."

"Dunno, it doesn't need to read gaze on an actual me inside the fake suits so they don't actually look. They do weigh the right amount, it would have noticed if they didn't."

"I did expect them to behave like pretty faithful copies."

"And they work beautifully."

"If a bit mysteriously."

"A bit, yes."

"Can your bots remove your suit?"

"Yeah? Why?"

"Well, then we could ask them to remove your copy's suit and see if there's a you there."

"I suppose. Might be kind of uncanny valley..."

"I wonder if it would be. Your bots can control the suit, but does that mean nothing's going on face-wise underneath?"

"I have no idea."

And lo, a Lorica copy!

It takes off its helmet.