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[What does an insomniac superhero do at night? They wander off the pool house and build their own working area in the underground labs]

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[nods a bit, carefully shrugging off his coat and getting his shirt off with some difficulty. He's definitely healed a lot in the past week.]

[who has no tact but also no issues at all with any of this? Gets the arm and hooks Bucky up. The arm has to be strapped down, since this doesn't involve implanting anything into Bucky so this takes a couple of minutes]

Once it starts up it might... do something. Not sure what. Maybe tingle?

[eyes it as he straps it on. also how heavy is it.]

You sure this'll be secure?

[it's slightly heavier than an actual arm but probably not as heavy as Bucky thought it'd be]

We ran like twenty different simulations, JARVIS said it'd be fine. [waves at the room before JARVIS says anything] Don't even start, JARVIS.

[and once it's all strapped in, the arm starts up. It makes a noise similar to Tony's suit when it's readying a shot. And also the tingling is more like mild electrocution, but it only lasts for a second, rly]

Agh—!

... that happened in most of the simulations. Can you move it?

The damn thing zapped me! Ghh . . .

[grumbles, but tries to flex his fingers.]

Yeah that was supposed to happen... sort of.

[u can ttly move your fingers. GOOD JOB]

Thanks for the wa—

[stares down at the fingers moving.]

I had to make up for the lack of physical connections somehow. [and looking at the fingers] See? I'm a genius.

[tries to bend and generally move the arm, quiet.]

[it totally works. It might feel kind of sloppy because weight plus lack of sensation but that aside it works like a normal arm]

It'll never need charging, and I made it as sturdy as my suit. But this place being this place, damage is not out of the question. Plus, it's a prototype, glitches happen. So, if anything goes wrong let me know and I'll get it sorted.

Okay, uhh . . . does it need any special care? I mean, what about water?

You're good, the casing's waterproof.

So nothing out of the ordinary?

Getting struck by lightning might overload the power source. So, avoid that.

Didn't have that on my bucket list anyway.

Then you're good.

. . .

I'm thinkin' you don't like "thank you"s much, so I'll just say you're a genius instead and leave it at that.

I'm the smartest guy you'll ever meet. And let me know if it gives you any trouble.

Yeah, you'll be the first one to hear.

[steps over and picks up his shirt, pulling it back on carefully, eying the arm.]

[turns on his holographic table. ttly not paying attention to whether Bucky can use both hands to button his shirt or not]

[manages it just fine, after being tentative with the first few. he then pulls his coat on, glancing over at the table.]

[he's pulled the schematics for the fingers. 3D projection of ridiculous amounts of circuits]

How hard is it to move each finger independently?

Uh, not very? I'm still gettin' used to it . . .

[trails off and starts to move each finger, one at a time.]