Probably not. He knows very little about his current opponents, I am fairly certain.
Maybe them being androids is kind of irrelevant?
The girls are people. They think, act, and feel exactly like flesh-and-blood humans do. If you didn’t have prior knowledge of them, you could easily be forgiven for thinking (in most normal situations) that they ARE flesh-and-blood.
I also get the feeling that, Proxy is someone who doesn’t necessarily enjoy his job. Whether it be by duty, or magical compulsion, fighting for and protecting the Twins is his job, and nothing more. He may not even personally agree with the Twins goals, he just goes along with them because it’s been made clear that his feelings on the matter are irrelevant. So he may not want to truly hurt them at all, he just has no choice in the matter. So, he chooses to hurt them only to the extent that it is necessary.
Thirdly, he strikes me as someone who spends a lot of time maintaining a strict discipline over himself. Maybe he had anger issues in the past, maybe he’s just hyperaware of how much damage he’s capable of dealing.
And for one brief moment, that carefully cultivated discipline slipped. As a result, he did more damage than he truly intended, damage that, were it inflicted on a flesh-and-blood human, would certainly result in their death.
Good points. He strikes me as a particularly honorable and respectful man, overall.
It’s a common trope where you have the monstrous villain, but his bodyguard or his troops are genuinely decent people, sometimes forced into a bad situation. And you feel guilty about dishing out the pain, because you know that deep down, they’re ok people. But, you gotta do what you gotta do.
Sometimes a story will even poke fun of this by having the heroes run into the ‘mooks’ or the ‘Dragon’ when they’re off duty. And there will be a line similar to “hey, can we chill with the fighting today? See what’s in the bag? Dinner.”
Or, to really play up the fact the troops or Dragon are real genuine people, they’ll be seen with a girlfriend / boyfriend / spouse, or to really make it hurt, their kids.
Did he not know they were androids?
Because that’s what it seems like to me right now.