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[hisfathersimage]

[Luke looks a little annoyed at something off screen before looking up to the camera.]

Prosthetic limbs. I'm sure I've seen an arm, and I know we've got some cybernetic residents. Do we have something set up for those of us with them, like, repairs, maintenance, charging if need be? Mine was damaged before I got here and I didn't get a chance to get the synth skin repaired, which is just vaguely awkward, because it means crap can get in and it's harder to clean out.

[He huffs and blows his fringe from his eyes.]

Yeah. Just looking for connect with the others who have a similar situation. Talk solutions.

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[hadthehighground]

I’m not an expert but there were times I had to help your father with his arm.

[hisfathersimage]

[ There's a pause. ]

Oh.

I didn't know that.

[ He doesn't clarify what he didn't know. ]

I can keep it working mechanically. Probably. But I haven't had it that long and adjusting is weird? And like, normal skin will heal after an injury, you just keep it covered until it gets there. Synthskin isn't like that. Every bit of damage is for good.

[hadthehighground]

Anakin didn’t have synthskin so unfortunately I don’t know anything about that. But if you need an extra set of hands, for repair or maintenance, that I can offer.

[hisfathersimage]

He was like, eighty five percent cybernetics when I knew him, so I didn't realise the arm had come before.

The main damage is the synthskin. The hand plate is dented, but it's superficial.

[foundlingfather]

[The whole Billy city thing was pretty messed up, and left him with even weirder memories. But at least they're coming in handy here.]

Don't know him well. But maybe talk to Tony Stark. Runs the Forge in town I think. He's into robotics and stuff.

[hisfathersimage]

Tony Stark. Okay. I can try and chase him down. Robotics covers the same sort of thing.

[foundlingfather]

Hang on, I can find the address of where he works. [There's a few moments if checking the map, before he'll send the address Luke's way.]

Wish I could offer to help. But more used to working on ships. Never worked on droids and such. [Because of personal reasons.]

[hisfathersimage]

Thanks. I'm sure this will help.

I'm usually great with anything mechanical but here... messes with my head or something. And I'm trying to be a bit more cautious since it's my dominant hand and I really don't want to have to learn to fight left handed.

[lionunchained]

[Oh well, this is very appropriate for him]

I feel your pain.

[And he hold up his hand to show that his right arm was basically a disembodied metal arm which only went to about where his elbow would be]

I don't know of anything official that has been set up. Might be sometime we should work on since it seems to be a fairly common predicament. I'll tell you though, getting the glitter out of it when we had a random glitter storm once was a pain.

If you'll pardon the bad pun, I can give you a hand.

[hisfathersimage]

That... seems really impractical.

[ Thank you for that observation, Luke. ]

Not having an upper arm. Is there a repulsor field of some kind there? Something to stop people waving a stick through it? How do you should check someone without that?

[ Yes, the original question is completely forgotten in the face of Shiro's prosthetic. ]

Your unit looks mostly enclosed, though.

[lionunchained]

[He chuckled a bit at that. He'd had plenty of time here to consider the practicality of his arm... especially when trying to keep it covered]

Yeah, I think it was the best that they were able to muster. I used to have more of my arm, but... long story short, they had to cut off what was left almost to the shoulder to stop this body from trying to kill my friend.

[Yeah that didn't answer much. It was short, but way too many possible questions]

It doesn't. I mean, I can wave my hand through it. There's a powerful crystal with what some might call magic abilities powering it. So it functions as though I have an upper arm even though I don't.

[It's okay. His is a bit strange]

For the most part, but it gets into all of the gaps.

Some follow up

[ezra_of_lothal]

[to here]

Well, he'd seen that coming. And for a moment, he's upset, even fierce in his protective anger, because Luke should have known not to be that blunt and clinical about Anakin too-

Except, of course, that Ezra himself hadn't told Luke exactly what happened at Mustafar, and if Obi-wan and Luke still haven't talked about it...

Ok. Ezra takes a steady breath, to start to calm down. Another. Then another.

Emotion, yet peace.

His voice is carefully soft when Luke comes near. "How can I help?" Because right this second, he can't really guess, but somehow he doubts the answer is 'blurting out upsetting truths'. He's done enough of that, himself.

[hisfathersimage]

"I don't think you can, unless you're hiding a magic undo button somewhere."

Luke seats himself on a rock, not interrupting whatever Ezra's doing. There's a quiet calm to him, a Jedi zen that seems genuine and is really just a mask. "I thought he knew about Vader. He told me he did." But know about and knowing about aren't the same thing. "I need to stop talking to people from my past about anything more recent than their time."

[ezra_of_lothal]

Well, at the moment, he's spinning glownie wool with a hand spindle. It's soothing.

"I think at this point, he knows everything he needs to know about Vader." He had, Ezra believed and still believes, needed to know Vader had survived Mustafar. If Obi-wan ever went back to his vigil on Tatooine, that was very relevant.

"Doesn't mean he's...processed it. And for the record, I bet Vader is in that suit, cybernetics and all, in his time."

suddenly, a text

[in_extremis]

And here I thought setting something like that up would be too self-indulgent.

I might know a thing or two about getting under your skin.

text

[hisfathersimage]

As much as I appreciate flirting, I like to know who I'm flirting with. I have bad precedent for blind flirting.

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[in_extremis]

Colour me intrigued, Oedipus. Are you the type to pull the same trick twice? No shame in that, as long as you're performing for a different crowd.

Tony Stark. I make things.

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[sinistral]

Self maintenance. And being somewhat cautious.

[The cautious part is a total lie.]

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[hisfathersimage]

Do you find self maintenance hard? Can I ask what you have replaced? Does it have synthskin?

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[sinistral]

Not for the extent I've needed. More complicated repairs would require assistance. It is my left arm, from the shoulder down. There is no skin covering the plates.

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[deal_me_in]

Wish I could offer something helpful in that department but um, to tell you the truth? We Exos don't even know how we run. And even when I do get myself banged up, then my Ghost just space magics me all good as new again.

[hisfathersimage]

Cooool.

I have no idea what that means, just so you know.

Could it repair others?

[deal_me_in]

Oh, it's about as nebulous as that. Sparkly light and tadaa! All better.

Unfortunately, no. It's kind of a partnership thing. Comes with the whole Guardian gig.

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[dr_riley]

I'm a mechanical engineer. And I don't mean that I have the data point, I mean I earned a doctorate in it.

As for synthetic skin, are you looking for something that gives tactile feedback, or just a silicone glove?

[hisfathersimage]

I don't need an engineer, I know how it works, I can maintain it myself. I need something to seal up the blaster hole in the current synth skin. The receptors are in the mechanical parts of the hand, the skin has some minimal feedback, but I don't really need it. I'd just prefer not to rip it all off to make cleaning easier.