@malleablePersonage. Got some good progress made on the Heart front today. [timaeusTestifeline [TT] uploaded a video file.] [It's a recording taken from his computerized shades, displaying everything recorded from his perspective. The feed from his shades is somewhat shaky, but otherwise, the video itself is fairly high quality. In the bottom right, there's a time stamp indicating when this video was taken: 06/22/521, 3:13 PM. In frame, held in a sweat-slick hand, is a shimmering pink, translucent katana. A few light sparks crackle across its surface, the outline of the object wavering in the wake of the disruption, but it otherwise maintains its shape in that of a sword. He turns the weapon around in his hands, testing the weight and feel of it. "Finally got this thing to cooperate with me," Dirk says, the strain audible in his short-winded voice, even if it sounds like he's making a concentrated effort to hide it. "Even if it took longer than I'd like to admit." He looks up from the katana, where a shaded, gray robot stands patiently across from him, modeled almost perfectly after his image. He raises a thumbs up to it. And with that signal, it ignites with movement, changing from its previous idle stance to an attentive, defensive one. Abruptly, barely even a beat later, the video feed seemingly glitches, reduced to shapeless blurs for the blink of an eye. It clears up with Dirk barely a foot away from the brobot, one hand grabbing the robot's raised arm to hold it in place, the other, the one holding the sword, scoring a deep gash across its torso. Dirk releases it from his grip, watching as it spasms on the ground, yellow and pink sparks flying out of the wound in its chest. "Works pretty much like any other katana, with some added electric bonuses." He holds it up to the camera as he examines it. "It's sharp. It's awesome. And it's a fucking sword. It's got some real weight to it, too. Ain't just a facsimile of physicality, this time." With little fanfare to follow, the video cuts off then and there.]
Fuck YES. the sword inside your SOUL