[Ogata didn't anticipate this immediate retaliation so it hits him square in the face. Womp. He don't really react to it beyond offering up one of his strange little angry cat smiles.]
Interesting condition you have there. [Tone flat.]
The reaction, sure, but the reason... [It wasn't clear, exactly. Just a flash of some buried, terrible memory. But it makes sense. Even if he didn't like women, to react like that... it's not normal. It's something deeper.]
Do you even remember? What that was... It must have been quite traumatic for you to block it out like that. [Why is Ogata like this.]
Well... I'm sure you know better than most that war does things to people. It robbed me of my family, and everyone else in my household. That sticks with you as a kid. Guess it just stuck a little too hard for me.
...
Anyway. That memory was from a couple years back. I've patched that hole since then.
[And taking the motherboard off this N*intendo product is far more important than expanding on that.]
[Hm. He does know. Maybe not from direct personal experience. But he'd seen how it wore on everyone around him. If this was a different situation, he might give some lie about how his brother died in the war but well, he thinks most everyone overheard him admit the truth of that. He wonders, idly, if Guy, who apparently lost his family this way, resents Ogata for what he did to his. Well, if he wants to ask about that, or about that memory he's recovered, he probably needs to loosen Guy up first. But that's fine, actually. He peers at Guy's project.]
[an EXTREMELY WELCOME TOPIC CHANGE god he loves talking about technology]
Just tinkering.
Electronic products are something I only got to explore at the temple. My world uses fonon-based machinery that's constructed much differently than this, but there's a lot of aspects of the engineering that have similar properties, even if the scientific laws of how it works are a little weird.
[Ogata wonders dimly what the fuck a fonon is but decides not to ask.]
So what, you're taking all this stuff apart so that you can figure out how it works?
... I suppose I can understand that, as a general idea. The use of electricity to power things isn't nearly as pervasive where I'm from, so I don't know anything about what you're messing with.
Hahah... yeah, pretty much. I didn't know anything about it either, at first.
Were you able to visit the temple at all, before that portal closed? The lab there had manuals for all the different technology of our worlds. That's the only reason I was able to know anything about electrical power, and even then, some of this is so delicate. [He'll hold up the motherboard, admiring the soldering like he's looking at a beautiful woman or something.] It's pretty breathtaking.
A little. Any excuse to get away from the sound those lights make is a good one. [Honestly WHY do they make noise it's stupid. But wow.... he does not understand what is so special about the thing Guy is holding up at all!!
Just kidding he's also a weird pervert. He nods.]
That's the appeal of any sort of technology or machinery, I think. The basic structure of a rifle is fairly consistent, it's just a collection of parts. But the particular details with how each one is designed means that a Mosin Nagant and a Type 38's form and function are fairly different. And working out the difference is fun.
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just picks up a tape measure and chucks it at him]
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Interesting condition you have there.
[Tone flat.]
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His eyes narrow, but that's about enough retaliation as he's willing to give before turning back to what he's working on.]
It's not like it's a secret. Most of the girls know about it now.
Unless you really weren't paying attention that last trial.
[Flayn touched him on purpose for saying something stupid and he flew back about three yards so that was fun.]
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[It wasn't clear, exactly. Just a flash of some buried, terrible memory. But it makes sense. Even if he didn't like women, to react like that... it's not normal. It's something deeper.]
Do you even remember? What that was... It must have been quite traumatic for you to block it out like that.
[Why is Ogata like this.]
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...
Anyway. That memory was from a couple years back. I've patched that hole since then.
[And taking the motherboard off this N*intendo product is far more important than expanding on that.]
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... What are you doing?
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Just tinkering.
Electronic products are something I only got to explore at the temple. My world uses fonon-based machinery that's constructed much differently than this, but there's a lot of aspects of the engineering that have similar properties, even if the scientific laws of how it works are a little weird.
Now that we have time to burn... why not, right?
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So what, you're taking all this stuff apart so that you can figure out how it works?
... I suppose I can understand that, as a general idea. The use of electricity to power things isn't nearly as pervasive where I'm from, so I don't know anything about what you're messing with.
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Were you able to visit the temple at all, before that portal closed? The lab there had manuals for all the different technology of our worlds. That's the only reason I was able to know anything about electrical power, and even then, some of this is so delicate. [He'll hold up the motherboard, admiring the soldering like he's looking at a beautiful woman or something.] It's pretty breathtaking.
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[Honestly WHY do they make noise it's stupid. But wow.... he does not understand what is so special about the thing Guy is holding up at all!!
Just kidding he's also a weird pervert. He nods.]
That's the appeal of any sort of technology or machinery, I think. The basic structure of a rifle is fairly consistent, it's just a collection of parts. But the particular details with how each one is designed means that a Mosin Nagant and a Type 38's form and function are fairly different. And working out the difference is fun.