[Darin paws around for something, then runs into another room. He returns with a notebook, some loose paper, and a pencil.]
[He begins sketching, a rough draft of a human person for the sake of proportion, then focuses on the arm. From there, he makes a separate drawing of the arm. Strap in, Makoto and enjoy your tea. This is going to take awhile.]
[He starts from the plating on the shoulder and works his way down, scribbling notes along the side as he goes. He stops briefly every so often to go back and redesign some part of the arm, as if a new idea strikes him each time.]
[By the end, about an hour or so has passed. But he's got a design down to the literal nuts and bolts all annotated.]
Alright. Hear me out. I don't have the surgical prowess to connect an arm to his nerve endings to make it work like a normal arm should but...as a fellow blood mage I know how powerful blood magic is. You can literally make other people act like puppets on a string. So if you can make a person do that with their blood, why shouldn't you be able to do the same to an arm using yours?
[He turns the sketch around to show Makoto the design.]
It's a streamlined design, lightweight but sturdy at the joints where he'll likely be putting the most stress. Now, a human arm has veins, right? Well, if I recreate the system of veins using flexible piping housed with a metal skeletal structure and then covered in plating, Naoto can pump his blood into the tubes and manipulate the arm like hydraulics. It'll take some practice but I think he can do it.
And then, here, at the palms, see these holes? Almost like little nozzles? If he forces blood through the piping to these, he can use the blood to form weapons in his hand. All he has to do is stop the flow and these outlets will seal up.
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[He begins sketching, a rough draft of a human person for the sake of proportion, then focuses on the arm. From there, he makes a separate drawing of the arm. Strap in, Makoto and enjoy your tea. This is going to take awhile.]
[He starts from the plating on the shoulder and works his way down, scribbling notes along the side as he goes. He stops briefly every so often to go back and redesign some part of the arm, as if a new idea strikes him each time.]
[By the end, about an hour or so has passed. But he's got a design down to the literal nuts and bolts all annotated.]
Alright. Hear me out. I don't have the surgical prowess to connect an arm to his nerve endings to make it work like a normal arm should but...as a fellow blood mage I know how powerful blood magic is. You can literally make other people act like puppets on a string. So if you can make a person do that with their blood, why shouldn't you be able to do the same to an arm using yours?
[He turns the sketch around to show Makoto the design.]
It's a streamlined design, lightweight but sturdy at the joints where he'll likely be putting the most stress. Now, a human arm has veins, right? Well, if I recreate the system of veins using flexible piping housed with a metal skeletal structure and then covered in plating, Naoto can pump his blood into the tubes and manipulate the arm like hydraulics. It'll take some practice but I think he can do it.
And then, here, at the palms, see these holes? Almost like little nozzles? If he forces blood through the piping to these, he can use the blood to form weapons in his hand. All he has to do is stop the flow and these outlets will seal up.
...What do you think?