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[heart_wrenching]

[ Even after the video starts, the image is mostly obscured, the figure still way too close and fiddling with her device. ]


Is this really broadcasting now? Amaaaaazing. I can't even see the microphone or camera! It's almost unbelievable.


[ When she finally sits back the area around her is a mess. The tables are strewn with tools and machine parts, knobs, springs, coils, piping. If one looks carefully, one may be able to spot a number of control panels suggesting she has possibly dismantled every major appliance in the home. Like ya do. ]


Well, hello! I'm a new imPort, my name's Winry. Winry Rockbell. And . . . does anyone out there know how to build a "microwave"? Well, rebuild, technically. The locks and turntables are pretty straightforward, but then there's all these wires . . . who knew electricity was going to be such a big deal, anyway?

Comments

[fullmetalbrat]

So we should just shut up and be satisfied with it?

[dendarii]

No, no. Complain away. But I imagine if downsides are all you look for, then downsides are all you will find.

[fullmetalbrat]

[For a moment he's silent, mouth drawing out into an ever tighter line while an air of resolve settles itself on him again.]

I'd rather find them before they blindside me because I was too busy pretending this was a vacation.

[dendarii]

... You're very fixated on that word.

[fullmetalbrat]

You used it first.

[dendarii]

Indeed, I did. For me, it very much is one.

[fullmetalbrat]

Good for you. Don't push it on me. Or my mechanic.

[dendarii]

All right, all right ...

[ He holds up his hands in surrender. ]

Though, if I may ask ... why is she your mechanic? Other than coming from the same world.

[fullmetalbrat]

[Ah. He did just say that, didn't he? Well, it was going to come out sooner or later . . .

Sighing heavily, he pulls off his left glove, revealing the intricate metal hand there.]

Because she built this.

[dendarii]

[ Oh. Miles leans in, immediately fascinated. ]

Is that a prosthesis? And she built that herself?

[fullmetalbrat]

It's automail. Ordinary prosthetics don't have this kind of motor skill.

[He wiggles his fingers to demonstrate.]

[dendarii]

Yes ... yes, I can see that. How are you controlling it? Is it hooked into your nerves?

[fullmetalbrat]

[He gestures vaguely at his shoulder.]

There's a port that connects in . . . somehow . . . I just use it, I don't care how it works.

[dendarii]

Right, right, you're not the engineer ... That's terribly advanced even for us.

[fullmetalbrat]

Really? Aren't you guys hundreds of years in our future?

[dendarii]

Just so. Which is why it's so impressive.

[fullmetalbrat]

What kind of shoddy replacements have you got if automail is advanced?

[dendarii]

Depends on the injury. Limbs are more traditional prosthetics ... Organs are regrown, though. And there is cryorevival of course.

[fullmetalbrat]

—You can grow organs?

[dendarii]

Oh, yes. Whole people as well. I myself was made that way.

[fullmetalbrat]

[Suddenly Ed is about a thousand percent less excited.]

So . . . you're a created human . . . ?

[dendarii]

I suppose you could call me that. But you would have to say the same of my mother, and probably 90% of the galactic population at this point. Uterine replicators are universal nowadays.

[fullmetalbrat]

Uterine what.

[dendarii]

Replicator. Exactly what it sounds like.

[fullmetalbrat]

Why would— Why?