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Ratchet of Vaporex ([personal profile] asafepairofhands) wrote in [community profile] thisavrou2016-09-19 07:59 pm

[audio]

[Only the audio clicks on, and the voice coming through the MID is worn, thin with static and carefully controlled.]

This is Chief--this is Ratchet, giving notice that the portion of the inorganic clinic I was running is currently closed until further notice, as of... now, apparently somewhere around a year from when I last checked. I'll be resuming my duties as soon as--when it's possible for me to do so.

In the meantime, I'm referring my patients to the regular medbay or to Tony Stark, depending on the complexity of the engineering involved. If it's a serious emergency... I can't help you, but I'll try to consult via MID if absolutely necessary. I am not available to answer five hundred questions about why, so don't bother asking. I need to work. Kindly refrain from calling me unless you're actively leaking to death.

...Ratchet out.


[PRIVATE TO WHIRL]
I need to speak with you in person. I'm sending you my coordinates.

Please.


[Somebody's hands finally stopped working to the point where he actually has to quit using them all the time and attach new ones, and he is not having a good day. Feel free to harass him, but there's no guarantee he'll respond.]
harderfasterwrecker: (This could be a more depressing panel)

[personal profile] harderfasterwrecker 2016-09-21 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Whirl does pause, and vents before speaking. He's not putting a large amount of work into inflection at the moment, and he doesn't look up from where he's working.]

If I stop, I'm probably not going to finish so lets not. Kay.

[That is probably the closest admission Ratchet's getting to exactly how hard a time he's having, so he'd better take it.

And with that, Whirl gets back to unhooking the bolts. He's almost done with the one hand so that's something.
]
harderfasterwrecker: (you know that is just uncanny)

[personal profile] harderfasterwrecker 2016-09-22 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Once the bolts are out he has to be careful not to frag anything up from here, pulling bits out of the way so that it's actually loose of the arm, instead of vaguely attached somewhere. All he knows is he'd rather not mess this stage up because if he does and ends up with energon everywhere then honestly he might end up purging his tanks, ability to or no, and then they'd have to call for assistance and as hilarious as that would be....No thank you.

Whirl pauses once the first one is off, and actually stops for a moment to shake his helm before very carefully picking up the hand, and moving it on the other side of the box where Whirl can very clearly not see it thanks to his questionable peripheral vision. Unlike with the claw before, there is absolutely no use of it as a pointer.

He goes to speak, his vocalizer clicks instead, and he rolls his entire helm at himself before pinching his claw in the air.
]

Other arm. Gimmie.
harderfasterwrecker: (someone go get an adult)

[personal profile] harderfasterwrecker 2016-09-22 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Whirl goes back to his odd little buzzing hum as he works, because the second hand is once again easier than the first, and he once again uses the flat of his claw to hold the hand in place while he works.

He is not about to admit that he is actually sort of grateful that Ratchet went and moved the stump away because it really shouldn't bother him. It really shouldn't. It shouldn't.

Once he's got the other hand disconnected he takes the same sort of care unhooking the wires from the hardware so they don't catch. If he's going to do this, he's going to do it right. That's really the only way he is able to keep going, because there's no point in leaving something undone. Then it will just bother him.

Whirl moves the other hand with the same sort of speed out of the way so he once again can't see it. +1 to problematic depth perception.
]

Okay, so, I'm betting the answer is hooking multiple things together instead of clipping anything?

[Whirl attempts to sound fairly unconcerned and it's passable only because of the utter lack of expression.]
harderfasterwrecker: (Pinch your horn)

[personal profile] harderfasterwrecker 2016-09-22 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Whirl, for once, doesn't say anything.

He's not exactly sure what he would say and about 90% sure that whatever it was would make things worse and despite what most people think he doesn't always want to be the biggest aft in the room.

Only most of the time.

Whirl waits through Ratchet's moment, tapping his claws on the desk not out of any need to speed him up but more out of the need to keep moving so he doesn't lock up. This, however, does not stop him from looking around a little as if Rung or Tailgate or someone will magically appear to be more useful, because this is very much not his forte. He vents in a very long steady stream when Ratchet finally sits up, and immediately the tapping becomes clacking with the free claw as he goes to pick up one of the ones off the table. He's able to arrange it well enough, though it takes both sets of claws to do it reasonably. The full claw is a little heavy for his pinchers.
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Oooookay. These are kinda like my old ones. Heavy. At least there's three points. So, less breaking everything you touch at the start. First week with these I shattered every glass I picked up.

[He flicks his up and down in their wells, as if to helpfully prove a point, and then he goes back to releveling each tool into the place he'd started with them in while he waits for Ratchet to tell him what to do. ]
Edited 2016-09-22 01:06 (UTC)
harderfasterwrecker: (the tiniest little pincers)

[personal profile] harderfasterwrecker 2016-09-22 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
They'll be decent for hitting something. If you need to hit something.

[Whirl seems to think this is a plus. His old claws were great for bashing, and these have a similar build. He basically used to be able to smash through low quality plating in about two hits if he was angry enough at the time. He flicks back out the pinchers and they expand out ridiculously before picking up one lone wire.]

Let's get this party started.
harderfasterwrecker: (Someone has to show their disapproval)

[personal profile] harderfasterwrecker 2016-09-22 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Whirl basically hums his way through working, and is quiet, for him. He seems much more sure of this part. There's less ugly weird thoughts nagging at the back of his brain module and this part is at least something more like he's used to if nothing else. Hook in place, tighten down, not too tight or you frag the tension and you have to unhook things and start again. Occasionally he stops and just sort of holds his claws in mid air for a moment before figuring out what ever angle works best to not cause more problems during the hook up.]

Whatever you say, Doc. Iiiiii.....think that's right?

[Whirl tips his helm and then actually looks at Ratchet. His own optic is painfully bright and his wings are high and tense, but he's in a rhythm that makes sense to him at the moment.]

If we're finishing this side first then I think we're good to test if these are gonna work at all.
harderfasterwrecker: (Hey. Hey. Hey.)

[personal profile] harderfasterwrecker 2016-09-22 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Whirl watches like he's almost expecting for something to blow up instead of move, and then looks wonderfully surprised when it works, optic huge and antenna flicked forward. He vents until it becomes a buzz again, because frag, that was stressful, and then picks up a tool to be able to bolt things back into place.]

Oh good. Moving's good. Okay. ....Still gonna be careful handing you anything yet.

Just...trust me. On that.

[Whirl might generally like raining on parades, but in this case he's just being practical. If there's anyone that knows how many things you can accidentally break with new claws, it's him.

And on that note, he stats bolting. Once again, this means pulling in one set of pinchers and using the flat of the claw to hold things in place.
]
harderfasterwrecker: (I can probably do something)

[personal profile] harderfasterwrecker 2016-09-22 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Having seen that what he's doing at least works some of the more painful tension bleeds out of Whirl's frame. He still is buzzing in lieu of being able to fidget but now his antenna has joined in by actually doing some of the fidgeting he can't do with the rest of him, flicking back and forth. It's easier this time both between Ratchet being able to tell him what to do and it being the other hand, and so it doesn't move at a speed that makes Whirl want to remove his own plating. ]

Think you can test this one.

[ While he waits to see if if's going to need any adjustment, his claws flick yo and down in their wells, restless energy trying to find an outlet.]
harderfasterwrecker: (...so good life choices?)

[personal profile] harderfasterwrecker 2016-09-23 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Whirl, however, is barely managing to sit still by this point, and went back to rearranging the tools yet again because it was something to do while Ratchet figured out his situation. Once he's got them to a reasonable place....he immediately starts at the top and starts working through the tools lining them up again. The repetitive motion is at least giving him something to do because he's got very little focus and functionality left in him at this point and pretty much wants to find the nearest thing he can to get him horribly smashed.

It's hit the point where it feels like his plating itches and that means he needs to go find something to shoot or distract himself with and he doesn't know how many options he's got at the moment.
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Does that mean everything's all hunky dory and I can go back to my very important business of....whatever the frag I was doing?

[He doesn't know what to do with the thanks, especially because even if it helped it kind of feels like it didn't which is stupid and he knows it. Ratchet obviously didn't take well to feeling useless. He can relate. Which means this was the best option.

Still sucks slag.

Whirl still continues the same repetitive behavior without actually looking up or particularly interacting in any real way.
]
harderfasterwrecker: (am I brooding enough yet?)

[personal profile] harderfasterwrecker 2016-09-25 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
'Kay. Right. Good then. I'll just... I'm out.

[When Whirl does look up he's clearly buzzing with way more energy than he can get rid of, and his helm darts with his optic as he figures out the best way to get out of the room without knocking anything over or knocking Ratchet in the process because he really doesn't want to do that on his way out. His claws do a fairly dramatic drum against the table and then Whirl...

Well, the best way to put it is, he flees though he will literally never admit to it if asked and Primus help anyone who ever thought to accuse him of it.
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