Miyoko Medic Dev: The Severed Hand

[20:01] "Unfortunately, Mimi, this is relatively basic and unexciting. A loss of limb can only be as creative as the victim wishes the replacement to be. Now then, Miss Penguin." She had no idea what her name was, and she certainly wasn't asking. The teen had her eyes at a constantly half-lidded state. Bloodshot hues of albino pink that flinched at the very light which illuminated the room.

There was no requesting permission, she was quite the demanding doctor it seemed. Abruptly grasping at the woman's arm and staring at the bandages, before unraveling them with a quiet turn of her head. "Huh. That is an unnaturally clean cut. Why, I certainly don't think a blade could do this. Least not a normal one- perhaps a living one? Or maybe some sort of hungry beasty.. But the lack of chomp-marks makes me doubtful."

"Less I know the better! So don't explain. I just like guessing." She taps a single digit against the 'wrist' where a hand would normally be connected to.

"So, Miss Penguin. We have a plethora of options on our hand. Would you like a monstrous hand, a unique, hand, or just the bare bones basic prosthetic? It'll have its own quirks, mind. I cannot withhold my artistic flair! But, at least this will make sure we're making it your way, yes."
(Kaila McGovern)
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[20:10] Vetani hovers around in the middle of the room. The two of them get down to business scarily close to the kitchen bar with the clean plates, but Vetani… doesn't seem to care. Her smile was wide and back in full force. It took her a while to actually get this injury fixed.

She didn't need proof of sacrifice anymore.

Vetani looks down in-tandem with Kaila, seeming unaffected by the injury, especially when she declares herself a musician. "The abomination that I faced had the ability to 'peel' itself, gaining quicker, more efficient movements. The tendril's strike was enough to go clear through my hand..." she comments, if Kaila was curious about the circumstance.

(Though, there was a bit more to it than that.)

There's a simple smile for the simple satisfaction that the woman feels right now. "Make this hand and fingers longer than my right hand. It'll be wonderful for when I get back to music."

She doesn't care about aesthetics that much, it seems!
(Vetani)
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[20:12] Naago quietly sits herself down, but not without keeping some motion to herself. She idly kicks her legs while observing the trio.
(Naago)
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[20:13] Kaila reaches out and headpats the Nagual when she arrives. Without her permission. But otherwise remains focused on the Trauma kit she was fiddling to open.
(Kaila McGovern)
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[20:19] Miyoko let her magenta pupils lay upon the injury. A severed hand. The first she's seen one ever. It was a practically clean cut and definitely not by a black. There would've been a bit of a jagged peel to the skin at least. However, that didn't seem to bother the kitsune in the slightest.

"Ah, but that's alright. Not a lot of injuries will be fun to handle and care for. But helping them out is the best part of the job!" she declared, beginning to remove her kimono from around her form. This was a medical area so she'd want her traditional clothing out of the way so she could do the operation properly.

Miyoko would take a glance at Kaila briefly before flickering back to Vetani. "So you want longer fingers to benefit you with your music, huh? I think that's really cool!" Returning her sights to Kaila. "Seems we're going to have to be artsy with this one! Longer hand and fingers!"

Was the aspiring medic a bit too excited for this? Yes she was! And she'd continue to keep that same energy throughout the process.

"I'll assist you along the way, Kaila!"
(Miyoko Hayako)
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[20:20] Vetani says, "Artificial joints will be won-der-ful for stamina whilst playing also."
[20:26] "They all have their fun, trust me.. And she, just made it fun. Thank you Pengu." She'd say, gripping at the stump and giving it a little shake. She doesn't even bother glancing at Vetani's other hand instead popping open the trauma kit and retrieving the bits and pieces inside.

"Your duties will be surprisingly mechanical, Mimi." She'd say with a soft click of her tongue against the roof of her mouth. Other than the brief headpat she'd given Naago, she was focused on her work. Her eyelids only half-open as the agitated eyes begun to dart this way and that.

"Long, like a spiders. But, it needs to be dexterous. Slender, delicate- eloquent. Something you wouldn't see in your mother's medical cabinet..." She utters before abruptly shoving the trauma kit into Miyoko's arms.

"Design it, my young protégé!" The two were the same age... "Make it as dazzling as possible- with what you're given. A performer craves the eyes of the crowd. She needs to be seen, known, heard, and enjoyed!" An enthusiastic clap of her hands follows soon afterwards.

What Miyoko was given, was the skeletal framework of a hand. It wouldn't be a full fledged robotic hand.

Kaila was a medic. Not a runescribe nor an inventor after all. "You'll be making the skeleton, the bone. Don't use any screws or bolts, I'll have that covered. Yes. Afterwards, you'll need to string the Orchilacum wiring in the kit throughout the skeletal framework- It is safe to assume you've studied the booklet I gave you, the one about healing yes? It should have mentioned circuitry andthe like. The Orchilacum will be her replacement circuits. So to speak."

"Work work! No time to lose!"
(Kaila McGovern)
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[20:26] Kaila McGovern exclaims, ".. Oh right, and favorite colors, Miss Penguin!"
[20:37] Vetani may be one of Kaila's more-enthusiastic patients in the history of the Hero Club. For over a year, magic has worked to dull down any pain of walking around with a stump, a stump that slightly twitches at that.

She didn't regret a thing, except that this was a weight off her shoulders. And Milon's: the girl that was ready to drag her to any doctor.

Her right hand ruffles stray curls out of her cloak with a big toss. Then, something is pulled out of the cloak. A drum with deep brown wood finishings, the metal pan one strikes on an emerald-green. "Make it matchy-matchy. So... hm."

Vetani doesn't know what she's doing, but at least she doesn't seem to care if her hand looks like a skeleton's. "Gray hand with purple tips."

Perfect.
(Vetani)
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[20:39] Kaila McGovern exclaims, "Dark or light gray!"
[20:39] Kaila is doing.. Something.
(Kaila McGovern)
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[20:39] Vetani says, "Dark."
[20:41] Kaila McGovern exclaims, "Dark or light purple!"
[20:42] Vetani says, "... Hmm."
[20:42] Vetani says, "Light, but luminous purple."
[20:51] test
(Azusa)
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[20:51] test
(Azusa)
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[20:52] The kitsune smiled as the she was told that she could design it. Definitely something she wanted to down and jumped up and down slightly in excitement to prepare the mechanical hand for Vetani to use. It would've be prepared specially by magic alone and no tool.

"Alright! Don't worry! I got this and I'm properly trained!" she exclaims, taking the hand and going off to prepare it. The Kitsune would retrieve her mask and place it on with a blank expression readying herself for what was to come.

And what was to come was different from what they would expect...

Holding up the frame, Miyoko would hold up a finger. A dark purple flame erupting upon the tip of her digit. It flurried all around her finger where she'd point it at the very tips of the fingers upon the hand. Soon, they'd soften where she'd straighten them to be nice and point but long enough to be viable for any instruments the penguin might use.

She'd use her own hands as the heat barely effected her. The man surrounded her palms like a glove as she prepared the frame to perfection. Soon, she'd like the cursed flames burn a bit more on the metal to give a nice clean luminous purple. A better look like it was titanium or somewhere along those lines.

"Hm.." She'd inspect it for just a bit longer. However, the arm needed to be a bit more gray. Lowering the temperature of the flames, they'd turn to look like a normal ember perched upon her finger. Hovering it slowly across the whole hand and lightening it a bit near the palm so it'd look natural. "Phew! I think I'm done!" The kitsune would let it cool and show it to the real one in-charge of this operation with a large grin.

"How does this look! I thought it'd look great if I used my magic to color it."

She hoped for a praise.
(Miyoko Hayako)
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[21:06] "Spindly fingers? Check, eloquent, long.. Good for plucking at the strings of instruments. Dexterous and thin. Yes yes. Perfect." She'd say with a quick clap of her hands. Plucking it between her fingertips whilst the metal was still slightly warm. "The tint at the tips, very very nice! Saves me from fiddling with crystals too much." She'd add, testing the movements of the skeletal frame.

There was a few tune-ups. But it was only to the Medic's own desires. Before she'd cease her fiddling and lay the hand upon the tabletop. Crystals were forming out of thin air around her- but notably these ones were a dark, discolored grey. A metallic color that was deep and almost foreboding- like a strange fog had been trapped within them.

Knuckles, joints, everything that needed to 'curl' or 'move' was given a shard of the misty greyed crystal. It was less than basic- and quite inhuman, even at a glance. The skeletal framework grasped quietly as she nodded to herself. Zoning out as she pressed a digit against the very base of the new wrist.

K & M

Carved neatly into it. Small, and hardly notable as to not bring attention away from the more 'gaudy' and 'flamboyant' portions of this skeletal hand. From the luminous purpled tips, to the dimly glowing and luminescent yet dark, foreboding grays of the crystals holding it together.

At the base of the faux wrist, she'd begin to align a series of green crystals along it. Making the 'wrist' look like some sort of spiked holder, than without warning or a word, she 'slotted' it onto the stump of a limb.

A blue syrupy substance- smelling distinctly of blue raspberry- leaked from the 'holder' And the stump was numbed entirely of pain as the green crystals dug into flesh. Giving Vetani a momentarily sharp puncturing sensation that didn't last but a single second. The crystals melting into her body, reshaping and thinning out before latching onto her circuitry and 'tying' the wrist onto her stump.

The only sign that said green crystals were even there, was the subtle glow at the covered stump.

"Now a one, two.. A one two three.."

She'd pinch the holder onto her hand tightly. And the dormant dark grey crystals burst to life. Expanding and growing exponentially whilst Kaila utilized her crystal magic to 'jump start' the woman's own circuitry. Soon the entire hand was covered in a deep gray, yet translucent 'flesh'. Strangely malleable- like wet clay, yet dry and flexible.

The skeletal frame of the prosthetic was visible beneath this dark gray crystal-clay-flesh. And the tips of her long, spindly faux fingers were tinted a luminous purple. The arm itself somewhat luminescent and glowing as it was pumped with mana.

"It shouldn't be hard, pretend the hand is your own to keep up the 'fleshy bits'. You may shut it off, however I'd not recommend it." It was certainly an... Eye-catcher.

Perfect for a musician in design, but perhaps a bit too.. 'Gaudy' for Vetani's tastes.
(Kaila McGovern)
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[21:29] Vetani looks onward at the two of them, eyelids slightly widened in befuddlement and curiosity flickering the pointed orange feathers at the crown of her head. Vetani has befuddled people with her own magical methods and work before, and now... it seemed as though the older woman herself was in a different world: with crystals and colours illuminated. She almost forgot that that work of art would soon be part of her own body.

A few 'clicks' rumble from her throat.

Like how shadows give no warning before coming over people, Kaila takes the warmed and ready prosthetic over from Miyoko, and it's slotted straight into Vetani's cleanly-sliced stump--

The rest of the process blurs on by, from Vetani's perspective. The woman has 'worked' at people before with her empathic powers, but she hasn't experienced a sensation like this before.

The cloudy gray holding much within starts flowing outward,much more than Vetani would expect from mere crystals. The spindly skeleton starts expanding as her very circuitry yanks itself awake and latching straight onto the welcomed prosthetic hand.

Finished, huh?

The first thing she does is slowly, slowly holding up her left arm, like one would a precious object. More of it has been affected by the colours than she dreamed. Like a child looking at the sunshine, she doesn't take her eyes off of the purples and grays.

Carefully, each of her fingers start fluttering up and down in a row. One slowly taps under her chin. Vetani grins at the sensation.

Almost as good as the spire shard...

"I'll keep the glow as long as it lasts," she decides immediately. "I want to shine as well as my lifestream and all around it. So... thank you. Thank you so much, miss...?"

With delicate movements, she rests her chin on the base of her fingers.
(Vetani)
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[21:48] The aspiring medic watches as her superior takes the hand. The mechanical hand that Miyoko had just perfected by design with the help of her darkened and bright flames. The embers left on the metallic metal giving it a nice warm feeling. It'd surely have a comfortable fit the moment it was attached. A bit of love into the heat.

Eyes would trail Kaila's fingers as the letters K & M were printed onto the fine metal. Letting a smile wash upon the Kitsune's visage. The initials made her overjoy with happiness. She felt like she really accomplished something which she did. She felt that with his operation she would finally earn the title of medic. Working in the medical field to her was really enjoyable. Especially meeting patients like this. An actual penguin-girl! She smiled, feeling a sense of kinship the moment she receives praise for the hand.

It connected and glowed. Just what Miyoko would expect from Kaila's crystals. The kitsune's eyes shot wide upon, expanding her eyelids and letting those magenta hues exposed.

Seeing as the process was done. Miyoko would relax herself. She was so excited for the girl. She returned to retrieve her kimono, placing it back on while tying her obi around her waist a bit tight. She returned to the ground, letting Vetani experience the hand a bit and getting the feel for it. Over the years, it'd be something that she wouldn't even notice. It'd be an exact part of her. The initials would provide a sense of warmth coming from both Miyoko and Kaila like they are right next to Vetani with support. Definitely what Miyoko intended when she warmed the metal prosthetic.

"It looks great! A job well done!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands together in front of her quickly. Surprisingly, the glow that appeared on the hand was something she wanted to look at for a long time. Her eyes gleamed at the sight. It reminded her of something deep within.

But she wouldn't think about it now.

Now, she'd stand right next to Kaila and hold her hand, raising both their arms in the air. "I'm Miyoko! Pleased to meet you and help with your injury! This beautiful doctor will gladly introduce herself to you! I don't think I should since I'm not her, of course! It wouldn't be as special," she states, lowering their hands to their side, however, still gripping her palm. Her tail swaying a bit while her ears twitch slightly.

The feeling was a lot to bear. Why did this operation feel better than the others? Maybe because it was really warm! A warm feeling within her.
(Miyoko Hayako)
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[21:55] "It'll last, as long as you apply your mana to it! Aka, until you die! Yep, hopefully that's later rather than sooner. Miss Penguin!" A small dip of her head as she tapped a few fingers against her chin in thought, head canting slightly to the side as she muses to herself.

"Alas, good but imperfect. The only way to truly give it sensation and bring back your hand, is through the use of God's Blood-... Arcanium. I just like that terminology! Makes it sound far more mystifying than 'Some shiny rock with unnatural mythical properties'."

She'd say with a click of her tongue, sometimes prodding and poking at the new hand to ensure it was functioning as intended. "Phantom sensations will be natural. But it's mostly a mental trigger. Your brain knowing how things felt, essentially."

A raising shrug of her shoulders and-

Oh was she just called beautiful!? Her cheeks flushed pink, but her eyes were once more shut now that the medical procedure was finished. Allowing the albino pinks some form of respite from the bright lights and luminescent glows.

"Erm.. Kaila.. Kaila McGovern. Kai for short... I uh- took my Father's surname recently." Though that seemed to be in Miyo's direction. Just to explain the missing 'eggsworth'.

Without actually bringing it up.
(Kaila McGovern)
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[21:58] Naago tilts her head slightly to the right.
(Naago)
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[21:59] Yuan says, "I want.."
[21:59] Yuan says, "to get drunk"
[21:59] Yuan says, "and fucked up.."
[21:59] Cordelia Invidia exclaims, "THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT!"
[21:59] Kaila McGovern says, "Uhhhh..."
[21:59] Naago says, "Woah..."
[21:59] Kaila McGovern says, "I'm too young for Nurse brand Whiskey yet."
[21:59] Naago says, "Aren't ya just comin' from the doctor? That doesn't really healthy."
[21:59] Kaila McGovern says, "But someday I too shall get to revel, in Nurse Whiskey's warm numbing embrace."
[21:59] Kaila McGovern exclaims, "Man I can't wait to see how many medical malpractice issues I can rack up when I still doctor good when I'm inebriated!"
[21:59] Kaila McGovern exclaims, "That'll be fun!"
[21:59] Kaila McGovern says, "'Lost my amulet in your chest sorry gotta cut you open again haha'."
[22:00] Kaila McGovern exclaims, "Can you imagine!"
[22:00] Naago says, "Haha."
[22:00] Naago says, "Wait..."
[22:01] Naago briefly considers the possibility of a drunken Kaila operating on her.
(Naago)
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[22:01] Yuan says, "I took a arrow in the knee, never been the same since"
[22:01] Kaila McGovern asks, "Ah, so you used to be an adventurer than huh?"
[22:02] Yuan says, "No. I used to be an alcoholic and shot myself in the knee. I learned not to get drunk and play with weapons."
[22:02] Yuan says, "Any down for a couple drinks and some bar fighting? "
[22:03] Kaila McGovern exclaims, "I'm literally sixteen!"
[22:03] Kaila McGovern exclaims, "No!"
[22:03] Yuan exclaims, "2 more years Kailia. Im counting the fucking calender!"
[22:03] Naago says, "I'm not really good at doing either of those."
[22:03] Kaila McGovern says, "I plan to start drinking at seventeen. Close enough then."
[22:05] Yes, Vetani rests that new hand now over her chest. The initials K&M are forever ingrained into her, and it makes her think more than it should. Dear friends that helped her, now gone forever. Maybe she will live forever without them, but she will find new people to be hers.

"The skeleton underneath won't scare me, don't you worry, just some finely-crafted mithril... Or-- if somehow, somehow a collar got wrapped 'round me."

Vetani licks her lips, "You're right though; this 'extra' baggage of having longer fingers might take some time getting used to. Aha..." The oft-famed phantom sensations. It feels like she's has much, much more weight to what her left arm now holds.

There's an awful lot of sensations in here, more than the somewhat-isolated Vetani is used to. Miyoko was practically /radiating/ beside her, and it gives Vetani a lot of questions.

She laughs unwillingly, "My name's Vetani. Nice to meet the both of you. I... was a hopeful in Levengard like the Hero's Club, a long time ago.

I'm having a reunion with Levengard. Been doing things around here..."

Vetani is somewhat vague with her wording, eyes distant.
(Vetani)