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[strategic_guile]

[The video starts up and you get a blonde with an upticked mouth looking at you.]

So everyone got these new tablets, but teaching us how to use them was just one step they weren't willing to take. I figure I could step in here and offer to teach the basics to anyone who was having a problem using theirs.

I'll be at the *insert random place here idk* for most of today, so if anyone wants to stop by for a lesson, I'll be there. [Grins a little wiser] I hope ya'll are good, attentive students so I don't regret this later.

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[getwrenched]

[ She really wishes Blaine's mother was there right now, too. No offense to the man, he's been very helpful, but there's a certain frustrated excitement about hearing on this topic so close to her own heart. ]

Aah! So she's hoping to get full connective nerve impulse control back for the amputees, and something with finer handiwork for the surgeons?

[strategic_guile]

That's right. They have basic movements down, but the fine detail work in motor control is hard. Getting the electrical signals to transfer over the wires hasn't been perfected yet. [Hey now, he can have a scientific-y conversation, too!]

[getwrenched]

( Winry listens, nodding her head and -- wishing she had any of her works in progress around to demonstrate how connections were modified back home. )

The fine tuning can take years, if a patient manages to pull through surgery for the initial installation of the connective plates. It's the hardest with kids, since the adjustments have to happen so often to compensate for growth, but once the brain and body's figured out how to respond to the wiring and the differences in synapse response time, you never lose the responsiveness.

[strategic_guile]

I'd really like to see that. [He definitely would, because he can't imagine how it works without all of the high tech gadgetry his world has.]

Once the connections are made you don't really lose responsiveness, it's just getting it in the first place. Opening and closing the hand is easy compared to moving the digits individually. Nevermind getting it to acknowledge the strength of your grip with no real sense of touch in your fingertips.

[getwrenched]

Modulation is an important part of the recovery process. Peeling oranges, handling easily bruised fruits, people need help retraining themselves to compensate for what pressure used to tell us about our limitations and sensitivities.

( By extension of being an automail mechanic, she had to be good with adaptive physical therapy and retraining programs. )

[strategic_guile]

I think they were working on a synthetic skin for that... but that's in early stages as well. We can regrow skin cells to graft for burn victims, but attached it to a non-organic surface is different.

[getwrenched]

You're thinking of putting actual skin over a mechanical support structure?

[strategic_guile]

It'll probably end up being synthetic. [he shrugged.] But we'll see what they come up with.