( if i don't get some shelter, gonna fade away )

[heckofashot]

Who: maccready + closed
What: searching for some books, and green fog things.
When: april (onwards?)
Where: milton, probably

Content Warnings: listed in headers where applicable.

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[solitarysoul]

"Fire lasers?" Hm, he guessed that made sense. If you fought with robots no one had to die. "They'd make much more sense for the military." Says the boy who's life had been engulfed by war. "I wonder if the flamethrower is left over from that."

He's not going to get over that flamethrower. Why would you do this Robco.

[heckofashot]

"Yeah, from her face," he points at his own, as if that somehow makes it make more sense that a robot has a laser-firing face. "Honestly, a lot of the technology was probably for the military or eventually got used by it…" Timeline discrepancies aside, some things never change.

Maccready tilts his head to one side, then nods, "I guess it would be. Though, I don't think it was probably standard on the household models, but because they're made by the same company and have more or less the same design, they're probably interchangeable."

He doesn't know Curie yet, but if he did, he'd be wondering if she could use a flamethrower.

[solitarysoul]

He is not sure why robots have faces or genders but he's not going to question it. That was beyond the basic understanding he needed of these things and he hopes he can ignore it. "Oh, them all made the same makes sense. Its easier to make things that way."

He'd never worked an assembly line, but he knew enough about them. The army had definitely cut costs when making things by using stuff like that.

[heckofashot]

Maccready's never really thought about it either, but if the laser-firing robot tells you she's a woman, are you really going to argue?

"Yeah… a lot of things used to be made like that before the war, I think. Some of the old factories still have all the equipment, but it looks like a lot to get working again." And even if someone managed — and he's sure they probably have — he's not entirely sure that it'd be as effective as it might have been; distribution and everything isn't what it used to be. "Now I think about it, I'm not even sure new robots could be made, at least not ones that aren't made of scrap or something…"

Another one of those cases where he's sure someone, somewhere, could or already has. Ah, the Institute notwithstanding, that is.

"Anyway, that's basically all I know about robots where I'm from," he crosses his arms, relaxing into his chair. "Maybe there're other people who have 'em too, they might be different."

[solitarysoul]

"It probably takes a lot to get those things running after they're abandoned or whatever." He shrugs, "Thanks for telling me. I don't know if it matters here but if I come across the word in a book or something now I'll know what it means."

[heckofashot]

"Sure thing," he laughs, pointing back to his silly drawing, "Even if you did come across something here, I don't know that it'd be anything like that." The assumption, here, is that he's thinking anything that might be found here would be more primitive, simpler. Anachronistic technology and all that, it's left him feeling like he's the one 'out of time' — maybe once they're able to go home, he'll be a little more sympathetic.

"So, robots really just aren't a thing where you're from, huh? It's weird to think about…"

[solitarysoul]

"No, at least I don't think so. I never really learned much about life outside of Prehevil or the front. Maybe people were making things like that somewhere else." Or possibly below where he'd lived? Most of the stuff to come out of the bunkers seemed to be animal or human based though.