[ a frank, easy admission; he's still getting accustomed to the weight of this thing shackled to his shoulder, the way it throws off his center of gravity and balance and gait, skewing everything ever so slightly to the left. he's been doing dexterity exercises, stacking coins, assembling a jigsaw puzzle borrowed from someone else's quarters. he's taken to carrying around a small therapy ball, absentmindedly flexing his metal fingers around it, rolling it across his palm, tossing it from hand to hand. notsomuch rebuilding the muscles, but trying to get accustomed to controlling them, the delicate fine-motor movement so he can actually aim a missile in the conn-pod, or pour a cup of coffee, without accidentally glitching everywhere and shattering the mug in one overly-strong metal fist.
it's a work in progress. ]
'That thing' is one of the best components Stark and Banner could build, though. They're, like, mad scientists over in J-Tech. If they can build plasma cannons and neural bridges, they can get me a working arm.
[ bucky says it lightly, as teasingly as he can, although there's stillβ something. some strain at the corner of his eyes, the smile just a little too forced. this, too, is a raw wound. ]
I'll keep up. Heard you've been wrecking the cadets this week, though.
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[ a frank, easy admission; he's still getting accustomed to the weight of this thing shackled to his shoulder, the way it throws off his center of gravity and balance and gait, skewing everything ever so slightly to the left. he's been doing dexterity exercises, stacking coins, assembling a jigsaw puzzle borrowed from someone else's quarters. he's taken to carrying around a small therapy ball, absentmindedly flexing his metal fingers around it, rolling it across his palm, tossing it from hand to hand. notsomuch rebuilding the muscles, but trying to get accustomed to controlling them, the delicate fine-motor movement so he can actually aim a missile in the conn-pod, or pour a cup of coffee, without accidentally glitching everywhere and shattering the mug in one overly-strong metal fist.
it's a work in progress. ]
'That thing' is one of the best components Stark and Banner could build, though. They're, like, mad scientists over in J-Tech. If they can build plasma cannons and neural bridges, they can get me a working arm.
[ bucky says it lightly, as teasingly as he can, although there's stillβ something. some strain at the corner of his eyes, the smile just a little too forced. this, too, is a raw wound. ]
I'll keep up. Heard you've been wrecking the cadets this week, though.