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saintedsinner-=The video feed kicks in as soon as he sneezes.=-
Well, there's enough of those damn feathers in here to make a pillow or four. The least you people could have done was swept them out when the wings came off, you know.
Well, there's enough of those damn feathers in here to make a pillow or four. The least you people could have done was swept them out when the wings came off, you know.
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Date: 2010-08-16 03:45 pm (UTC)I'm sorry, I don't know anything about alchemy.
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Date: 2010-08-16 05:58 pm (UTC)[Video]
Date: 2010-08-16 07:54 pm (UTC)Oh. Um. Well he's dead now, if that helps any.
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Date: 2010-08-16 07:57 pm (UTC)...
So we're supposed to meet up. -=GOD why does he have to find someone to help with his automail? Dammit, he hates maintenance.=-
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Date: 2010-08-16 08:10 pm (UTC)Er. Is there anytime in particular that you wanted to, or...?
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Date: 2010-08-16 08:16 pm (UTC)[Video]
Date: 2010-08-16 08:25 pm (UTC)[Video]
Date: 2010-08-16 08:26 pm (UTC)[Video] offline this?
Date: 2010-08-16 08:28 pm (UTC)[Video//Private//Unhackable]Yesh!
Date: 2010-08-16 08:42 pm (UTC)[Video//Private//Unhackable] [Offline]
Date: 2010-08-16 08:46 pm (UTC)[Feed switches off and Merlin starts on his way. Eventually, after getting lost on his way, he manages to find the place.]
Er... hello?
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Date: 2010-08-16 08:55 pm (UTC)Hi. You finally made it.
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Date: 2010-08-16 09:09 pm (UTC)Oh, er, yes. Sorry.
I got a bit lost.
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Date: 2010-08-16 09:15 pm (UTC)So. Automail. Why are you interested in it?
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Date: 2010-08-16 09:30 pm (UTC)Um. It wasn't so much automail at first as helping at the clinic in general, really, but Winry and I got to talking and she explained automail to me and... [Here comes the excited gushing.] It's just so amazing! Using machines to replace lost limbs and help people function beyond just living through the loss. And I...
[And here he seems to grow embarrassed.]
I just want to be able to help people, I guess.
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Date: 2010-08-16 09:50 pm (UTC)Mm.
-=He listens. And then he comes to the scary realization that he's found Winry's brother from another world.=-
You're a wanna be gearhead, eh?
-=Then he starts laughing.=-
That's... that's amazing.
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Date: 2010-08-16 09:59 pm (UTC)A... a gear-head? I suppose, yes, if that's what it...
What's amazing?
[Why are you laughing at him, Ed, did he say something wrong~?]
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Date: 2010-08-16 10:09 pm (UTC)-=Then he's dead serious.=-
But if I ever catch you trying to throw a wrench at my head for any goddamned reason, I'll kill you.
-=Oh shit, son! And you haven't done anything yet!=-
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Date: 2010-08-16 10:12 pm (UTC)Why would I throw a wrench at your head?
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Date: 2010-08-16 10:14 pm (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2010-08-16 10:17 pm (UTC)I won't-that's a bit counterproductive to healing people anyway.
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Date: 2010-08-16 10:22 pm (UTC)...
Automail engineering isn't easy. There's more to it than just putting pieces together and then snapping the parts up onto a body.
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Date: 2010-08-16 10:29 pm (UTC)[And he's listening to you, Ed, he really is.]
... I would imagine not. These are fully functioning limbs, aren't they? They've got to connect to the body's nerves without damaging them or anything. And I can't imagine that the limbs themselves are terribly simplistic either.
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Date: 2010-08-16 10:37 pm (UTC)The nerves connect to the wires and the wires make the gears move. That's all I can tell you from my end about the technical features. You have to make the limbs durable enough so that they can weather time and abuse, but you have to make them light enough so that the person can actually use them.
-=Case in point, Ed's a short guy, but he has muscles=-
Surgery's fuckin' hard. Recovery's even harder. Your work isn't done when the ports are in and you're waiting for the bone to heal around the bolts. Normally it takes a person about three years to completely integrate into automail.
-=glances up=-
I did it in one. I was spitting blood eight months out of that twelve. If you have to outfit another person with this? Don't let them do it in a year. There's fevers and pain and a whole shitload of crap you have to deal with. I heard grown men scream during surgery, begging Winry and Pinako to stop. You think you have the fortitude to keep going when people are sobbing their eyes out, going through hell as you set fire to their nerves and drill into their bones?
-=While it's unlikely that Merlin would have to do that, if he can't handle it, Ed doesn't want him anywhere near his arm and leg.=-
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Date: 2010-08-16 10:55 pm (UTC)I don't know if I'd have much opportunity to give people automail on my own - we don't have anything even remotely like this back home, but...
But I have seen all sorts of terrible things, assisting the castle physician. And while I might not enjoy seeing people in pain, I'm not going to flinch from it if it insures a better quality of life for them in the end.
Besides, it's a little insulting to them and their struggles to say that it's too much for me, that I can't handle it, I think.
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