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In the story I'm reading right now I found this sentence:

> 近年入社してくれる若い人間たちなどは、私の姿が自分たちとずいぶん違うことにも気がつかないようだ。異形 **のもののこと**
> を、あえて忖度しない、というよりも、気に留めよう **とも** しない、らしい

I'm not sure about the meaning if `のもののこと`: should I read it as `の者のこと`, so
something like "It seems they didn't deliberately make guesses about strange-
looking people, or rather they don't pay attention to them"? (This is
translated as "I don't think they consciously decide not to wonder about me,
why my form is so unlike theirs; they simply can't be bothered").

Also I'm not sure about `とも` in the last part; I don't think it matters in
understanding `のもののこと`, but just in case I prefer to stress it.
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Meaning of のもののこと
One of the cool things about 「もの」 is that it can refer to a person (者), OR to
a thing (物). And depending on how you use it, it can even be used in a sense
to refer to both at once, or even to something as both.

When I read:

> 異形のもののことを、あえて忖度しない、というよりも、気に留めようともしない、らしい。

I get the sense that, by going out of their way to use もの instead of 者, the
speaker is almost grouping him/herself together with 物, and it gives the
feeling that he/she is looking down on him/herself. The speaker could have
used 者, and it wouldn't have looked wrong.

So

> "From what I hear/gather, it's not that people go out of their way to not
> take considerations for odd-looking/grotesque 'things', rather they don't
> even try to pay attention (to them)."

the 〜ようともしない can be translated into English as "don't even try to 〜". Shout
out to Chocolate in his/her comment to the OP for explaining this in more
detail.

For example,

隠そうともしない → not even try to hide (something)
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