You're not a novelty. You're interesting to people from my world, because they've never seen someone else who looks like me (unless Angelus counts) before. And I'm interesting to people from your world for the same reason. My friends just express it differently..
You want to know what being viewed as a novelty feels like? Try having your friends tell you what a cute puppet you were, and how they're going to buy a mass-produced version of Puppet You. My friends are literally more interested in me when I'm made out of felt than when I'm me. So excuse me if I don't feel like apologizing for the fact that I exist, and that you got sent to a place where I exist, and that my friends are into you for a variety of reasons, and that I have personality traits you don't wholeheartedly approve of. I'm sorry about a lot of things all the time, but those aren't on the agenda for today.