Well, it used to be a man. Now it's more like a barely animated corpse held together by machines. He quirks a hairless brow over empty eye sockets.

"It is a metabolic illness in which the patient repeatedly consumes things that are not considered food for the base-constituent of its species. Unless, of course, you are one of that rare breed that can metabolise any kind of solid matter, in which case I think a simple request of the cooks here would be a more... dignified manner of obtaining such sustenance."