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Who: Uchiha Sasuke
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: Marsiva
When: This very moment.

(broadcast)

[ Sure there are bound to be the occasional less-than-thrilling broadcasts but this one may be a new low, with the camera focused in on a nondescript blob that turns out -- with some acquired distance -- to be a knee. The feed shakes then and there's the loud metallic tap tap of the device being knocked against the framework of one of the generic cots aboard the Marsiva. Tap. Tap. Tap. The only other sound is that of the painfully bland music in the background, without a word being spoken.

At least this inept user finally turns the communicator around to inspect it at another angle, granting any viewer a flash of dark and impractically spiked hair before the camera then focuses on equally shadowed eyes and a severe expression.

No, he's not going to panic. He probably already did that internally before he even tried to figure out the communicator ~~less than successfully~~. Send aid. ]

(action)

[ Sasuke will be easy to encounter either sitting on that cot and fiddling with his communicator, exploring the bay thoroughly, or staring with incredible and difficult-to-read intensity out into the murky void of space. Godspeed. ]

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I think pretty much everyone we know had a lot more confidence in you than you had in you.

... And I've had a lot of time to think about stuff. I hate to add to the list of reasons why this place kinda sucks, but wow, do we have a lot of free time.

[ But anyways. ]

Anything else you want to know? --You said your injuries were taken care of, right?

[ There's just a 'hn' in response this time, a sign that that's as much openness as he's able to manage right now. Give him more time to buffer some more. ]

For the most part. I don't have any open wounds.

[ She gives him a flat look. ]

So what you're saying is there's still something wrong that you need help with.

No.

What I'm saying is what I said.

You said, "for the most part", meaning not all of them. Implying that there's still something that wasn't taken care of.

I didn't expect it to be and it isn't an inconvenience yet. I'll find a way to address it if I need to.

[ She sighs, pinching the bridge of her nose. ]

I'd nearly forgotten how frustrating you are sometimes.

That's a lie. [ lol

But he cuts her some slack at least, finally angling the communicator to show his shoulder, then lower to his sleeve... which is noticeably slack. ]

Ha, ha.

[ But she watches with interest when he does that, and then ... her mouth drops open in surprise. How the hell did he of all people lose an arm ...

If he didn't even want to show her that it was missing, though, it's even more unlikely he's going to be willing to explain how it happened, so she moves on to the healer type of questions. ]

Is it -- the severed area's healed over completely? [ Not that the rest of his arm came with him, she's pretty sure if it had been possible to reattach it would have been done. ]

[ That arm was surely disintegrated one hundred percent given the nature of its loss. R.I.P. arm and dated icon.

He directs the camera back up again, checking to make sure he still has it facing properly. ]

It is. No open wounds; I said it already. I don't have more than phantom symptoms. [ Right, the occasional dull pain or attempt to use a limb he hasn't yet gotten accustomed to living without. Things that bother him somewhere deep down, but that he consciously registers as unimportant. ]

[ Jeez, that's still rough, though ... ]

I'm sorry, Sasuke.

... But I think, if you wanted -- you could get a prosthetic built. You'd probably be able to have a decent range of function on it.

[ Well, at least now he knows the option is there. He'd assumed it would be given what appears to be a certain level of technological advancement, but... ]

It's a possibility. As long as not having it doesn't get in my way, I don't miss it. [ As strict with himself as ever. ]

Of course it's going to get in your way, not having a hand is kind of an inconvenience when you've spent your whole life having it.

[ She almost says it with the air of a question. Like, are you dumb, Sasuke????? OF COURSE IT'S GOING TO BE A PAIN???? ]

Look. My boyfriend and his younger brother are engineers, they build stuff like that all the time at home. I'll see if they can draw up a plan for you for something that'll be like having your hand back again.

I've explained to you already that I mean what I say. [ His stubbornness has not lessened despite his morality shift. ]

I'll decide what's appropriate for me and at what time. Until then, I'm fully confident in my ability to adapt. [ Of course he is. He's Sasuke. ]

Well then, if you don't like what they draw up, you can just say no then.

[ What happens when an unstoppable (stubborn) force meets an immovable (also stubborn) object?

Ninja bickering, I guess. ]

Edited 2016-01-16 07:01 (UTC)

As is my wont, sure. [ I would love to have seen Ino and Sasuke squabble in canon. ]

Is there the ability to make a carbon-based flesh replacement here?

[ It would have been great and also probably dangerous for the people around them. ]

I don't know about living flesh, but at the very least they could probably make something that looks and feels like skin, and that's attached to the nerves left on that side to operate on those signals.

It's just a matter of stopping somewhere they could get the materials.

You should know why it is that I'm asking.

The appearance of it is irrelevant. [ He's never cared about looks of any fashion, after all. ] If I were to get a replacement then I'd want it to be able to have chakra channeled through it as effectively and quickly as possible.

[ ... Oh. Yeah, that's a good point. She looks thoughtful. ]

If nothing else, they'd probably enjoy the challenge of trying to figure out how to do it. I've been teaching them the basics of chakra and stuff like that, so I bet they'd be able to think of and test a solution.

... if you're the test subject then they'll need to make it more durable.

My chakra's more powerful than yours is. [ Rude as fuck. ]

[ She looks back at the screen, irritable now. ]

It's not like I needed reminding, but sure, thanks for that.

Besides, if it's for you, then you'd be the one testing it in the end. It's not like they could imitate someone else's chakra for a test.

It's important enough to mention. If I received something that I only then immediately destroyed, it'd be particularly useless. [ Clearly that's just good common sense. ]

[ Sarcastically: ]

I'll make sure to let them know not to present you with anything less than your godliness, Sasuke-sama.

I'm not grandstanding.

I'm saving them work.

I think you might be grandstanding. Just a little.

[ Or overcompensating for where he's been limited now, but she's nice enough to not voice that thought. ]

In any case, they enjoy the work, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

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