"Yes!" His expression clears slightly. They're moving in a direction he has more control over, and this is good! "So it was - kind of an accident then. And kind of more of an accident now. Once I remember how to descend, I'll be me again."

Ordinary human Daniel who, as it so happened, has still been mistaken for a god multiple times due to mass cultural misunderstanding.

"I'm not - this isn't - godlike, or anything." His shape's expression folds into a frown of concentration. "Ascending is kind of its own thing where I come from. Brainwaves and, and evolution."

He's really not doing a great job of explaining, is he.