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[yes_im_kawaii]

Look what I made!

[The video flickers on to Makoto lifting a bronze-painted... is that a NERF sniper rifle? Clearly it used to be, although aside from the paint job, some lumpy welding spots and a cobbled-on tactical rail with a laser pointer mounted on also indicate that Makoto's been doing some work.]

I got really bored because we don't have anything to fight and school is dumb, so I started trying to figure out what all I could make with some stuff from the store. You all get to see how far this thing can shoot! Check it out!

[She moves the camera so that it shows that she's set a target up all the way at the other end of the hangar, past the Buster Machines. Makoto steps forward, raises up the rifle, looks through the scope with her makeshift laser aiming attachment turned on, and fires.

...and immediately whacks herself in the face with the gun.]

Ow ow ow! Auuuuu! That's not supposed to happen, just... This is testing! Don't make fun of me!

Comments

[a_complicated_shine]

I almost have to wonder why your guardians let you do things like this.

Did you even factor in recoil?

[yes_im_kawaii]

Because I'm a mature adult! Auu. Besides! I'm just testing it! It's not ready yet!

[a_complicated_shine]

Last I checked, mature adults didn't go around making weapons they can't handle.

[yes_im_kawaii]

I can totally handle this when I fix it. What do you know? Horses don't even use guns.

[a_complicated_shine]

I know that a weapon in an untrained hand is a bad thing. We have crossbows which do basically the same thing.

[yes_im_kawaii]

How does a horse use those?

[a_complicated_shine]

Magic. And we're not horses, we're ponies.

[yes_im_kawaii]

How are those even different?

[a_complicated_shine]

Horses stand much taller, and more robust than ponies.

[yes_im_kawaii]

Auu, fine. Either way, my gun just needs a bit more work and it'll be fine!

[a_complicated_shine]

If it's that large, shouldn't you, I dunno, mount it on a tripod or something?

[yes_im_kawaii]

...It has to be on that all the time?

[a_complicated_shine]

Just a thought. I suppose it'd lose its portable nature that way.

[yes_im_kawaii]

I guess you could take the tripod too. Auu. This is complicated. ...But I'm still gonna fix it easily and nothing's wrong!

[a_complicated_shine]

Well good luck with that. I'll be here if you need a second pair of eyes to look over it.

[yes_im_kawaii]

Do you even know how to do this stuff?

[a_complicated_shine]

I'm a scientist. It would be remiss of me not to know how to do SOMETHING like that.

[yes_im_kawaii]

Even though different scientists do different stuff anyway?

[a_complicated_shine]

I'm kind of an all purpose scientist in my world.

[yes_im_kawaii]

That doesn't even make sense. Besides, why are you making fun of me?

[a_complicated_shine]

I'm not making fun of you.

[yes_im_kawaii]

You said you didn't know how I was allowed to do this, like I was a kid.

[a_complicated_shine]

Kid or not, who lets someone make a weapon out of things you find at the hardware store?

[yes_im_kawaii]

Everyone. Obviously.

[a_complicated_shine]

I'm pretty sure that's not a typical thing.