It's not a subtle thing, Tesla's bloodlust. In fact - and Tesla knows this from experience - it rather hits like the metaphorical truck. But it's not a monstrous thing either. More a very insistent sort of hunger, something that's there and that can't be entirely denied. But it can be controlled, and Luke has the advantage of coming into his body when he's relatively well-fed besides.

(On what is a question he might need to ask Tesla himself, given that the man has been on the Barge for upwards of a year and yet has never seemed to avail himself of the blood the Admiral offers for those passengers who have vampiric tendencies.)

Of a lesser, but still immediate relevance is the fact that he happens to be something of a living magnet; while this, too, is something that can be controlled, it does mean that if Luke isn't careful he might find that anything metal and not tied down is more than a little inclined to start shifting in his direction.


Elsewhere, Tesla finds himself suddenly, and abruptly, human again and while he's been prepared to deal with that, it still leaves him blinking for a moment. But it passes swiftly and his first thought is to head back in the direction of where he's just been: the deck is certainly not one of the more frequently populated areas of the Barge, but it's probably better to not leave Luke without at least some idea of how the body he's just recently found himself inhabiting works.

Disorienting is certainly one way to put it. Not that Tesla has really done a lot of exploring what he can do with the body he currently inhabits, but to be fair there are slightly more pressing matters at hand. Plus he's been human a couple of times in recent memory, and while he knows that there are people on board the Barge who are more than standard humans he has yet to realize that Luke actually is one of them.

"I wasn't going to be the one to say it," he answers, with an easy shrug that most likely looks a little out of place on his borrowed body. "But comparatively, yeah."

It's not as different as he might have expected, though. Sure, he's looking at things from a slightly different angle. But that's not really so much of an inconvenience in the long run. Just a slight change of perspective and he can deal with that without too much trouble.

There's a brief moment of silence and a blink on Tesla's end at the question. It's not, precisely, surprising that he should happen to swap with someone he hasn't much spoken to. But neither is it something that he'd actually stopped to consider to any great degree. Still, that's hardly any reason to not offer his name, and given that they happen to be inhabiting each other's bodies it certainly can't hurt to know the name that belongs to the body in question.

"Nikola Tesla. Although I have to admit this is probably the most unusual situation to have to introduce oneself in that I've run into so far."