retrospec | pretend i posted this on 11/16, i'm just impatient

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marvel 616: bucky barnes

pretend i posted this on 11/16, i'm just impatient

hey retrospec
i got another message for you this time

[ He switches over to a video that shows him holding his phone at a selfie angle. There's a whirring noise and slowly, an arm rises into sight. When it comes to the highest angle possible, the whirring stops. ]

[ And then the whirring starts up again as the hand does a full 360-degree rotation. Once it completes, James just says: "Fuck you." ]

if anyone knows retrospec's mailing address lmk
because i got a ton of medical bills from this thing for them to pay off
or maybe i'll just send it to them through their mailbox again

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mine can't either
i had to manually move the fingers into place for this

[ he hopes he did not break his fancy new bionic hand less than a day after getting it. ]

did retrospec take your arm too

I meant the 360 spin
Flipping the bird is easy but I can only make gestures my normal hand could
Well. If I was double-jointed

[ please do not try this stuff at home, kids. ]

No
Some fuckhead with a logging truck did that years ago
The arm was their idea

oh
yeah idk who decided i need to be able to rotate my wrist 360 degrees but i'm not complaining

wait
retrospec GAVE you an arm???
after you lost it from something else?

Yeah they did
Perfect fit and all too
It's the weirdest fucking thing because of what they said
About it having to do with our past lives
Or real lives or whatever, right?
So... everything I've seen shows the old me has both arms still

WHAT THE HELL
they give YOU a prosthetic arm but not me??
even though they're the ones who took my arm in the first place?
what the fuck
i should've done way worse to that mailbox

[ sorry, he's stopped paying attention to all the past lives talk. he's too busy being furious about the prosthetic. ]

[ so much for comparing trauma evenly. what'd she tell Togusa about how this might go? oh yeah, that she's shit at empathy. ]

You vandalized the mailbox?

no
i just gave them back my arm
while it was giving them the middle finger
and set on fire

Wait you did WHAT?

[ He attaches a photo of the Retrospec mailbox. Sticking out of it is an arm, loosely wrapped in a bedsheet. But the hand is fully uncovered, with the middle finger proudly sticking out and aimed right at the camera. The bedsheet and the arm are both engulfed in flames larger than the mailbox itself. ]

[ it's going to take a few minutes for Yin to process that. maybe a couple of shots of something, for good measure. ]

That's both scary AND metal
I'm impressed
Let's hope they got the message

[ Now THIS. THIS is the kind of reaction he wanted when he posted this picture originally! Thank you for being the only civilized person who knows how to respond to things. ]

i doubt they did
knowing them
but at least it felt great

Real cathartic I'm sure
I'm kinda jealous
Wish I could have chucked my arm at the fucking lawyers in court when they tried to worm out of paying damages

Real talk, I don't think I could've done either of these things

it helps when you have the arm right there and a mailbox to shove it in
makes it real easy to go from point a to point b

It still takes a lot of guts

How's the pain? They got you on anything good?

no pain
not from the arm anyway
never had any
the doctors said i was like three months healed out of it even though it just happened overnight

So wait
Can you still feel it sometimes?
Like it was still there...

god you have NO idea
i keep trying to do stuff with my left arm and getting mad when nothing happens and then remembering like
oh yeah of course it didn't work i don't have anything THERE any more
but the doctors said that it's good
bc the way this prosthetic works relies on me having that feeling still there
or something

Yeah because it's myoelectric
I recognize the brand from some pamphlets
Doctors tried to get me in one years back
Couldn't afford it until the lawsuit settled
By then I was so used to being without it

Good for you though
I hear it's not easy

yeah we had to convince the insurance companies it was medically necessary
and after that they HAD to cover it
like all of it
mostly
however the hell insurance works i don't actually know
and then i had to spend a month training on how to actually move the damn thing
it sure as hell took a while

Insurance is bullshit
Then again so are lawyers
You thinking of suing too?
Though it's hard to prove Retrospec is actually behind any of this I guess
So fuck us, right?

they actively monitor any method we have of making them pay
the police filed paperwork on them for mailing me a body part and it just disappeared like it never even existed
go figure

Fucking wow
I wonder if they know I submitted my arm to CSI to check into
You know, make sure it wasn't a bomb, or try to find where it came from
No luck, as you can bet

oh they definitely know
but they won't do anything about it unless csi tries pinning the blame on retrospec for whatever's in your arm

At this point they can't have it back even if they wanted it
Not unless they trade
Like for your arm or something
Seems fair

you'd trade in your fancy retrospec arm for me to get back my regular arm?

[ IS HE READING THAT RIGHT???? ]

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