It had taken months of experimentation, fine-tuning and modification, but the fruits were finally beginning to be born. In his first few months of activity, he had to make do with hand-me-downs and ramshackle components. Puppets that would have made any experienced craftsman cry from disgust, but he had managed to make them work. Now, however, he had quality resources and tools at his disposal! Gone were the old archaic ways of restricting component integration due to overall functionality, and nigh was the era of adaptive design!
Ren raised his hand and gestured it into the air, twitching his fingers in subtle but purposeful motions. With almost no delay, the humanoid puppet seemed to leap from the ground, a kunai blade in its mechanical hand as he slashed, spun and kicked at the open air. Its second arm thrust forward and a volley of needles erupted from a small hole its palm, scattering into the air before disheartening into the distance. The area was not often traveled, and served as a testing grounds of sorts for weapon creation, so the likelihood that a few stray senbon woulds find a mark was minimal. Then, like it was flying, the puppet man floated in place, making odd motions that tested and pushed against its range of motions and controls, contorting at unseeing angles and positions. Its two arms slide in half and separated into four smaller and thinner ones that too contorted and shifted around unnaturally.
He could design small metal bars to serve as a skeletal structure for these cretaions that were thin, light and durable enough to separate what was once an arm of modest thickness to one as narrow as his finger, and yet was able to halt a blade and flex slightly without breaking. With enouhg of these, it simply became a test of how many separate pieces could be woven together to replace key sections. An arm could contain four of these at each joint, and could then split into four separately controllable micro-arms at a moment's notice just with a small bit of chakra and careful planning. It was not as strong or as durable as the fully formed cohesion, but between shinobi, the loser was usually the one who ran out of surprises the quickest.
Ren raised his hand and gestured it into the air, twitching his fingers in subtle but purposeful motions. With almost no delay, the humanoid puppet seemed to leap from the ground, a kunai blade in its mechanical hand as he slashed, spun and kicked at the open air. Its second arm thrust forward and a volley of needles erupted from a small hole its palm, scattering into the air before disheartening into the distance. The area was not often traveled, and served as a testing grounds of sorts for weapon creation, so the likelihood that a few stray senbon woulds find a mark was minimal. Then, like it was flying, the puppet man floated in place, making odd motions that tested and pushed against its range of motions and controls, contorting at unseeing angles and positions. Its two arms slide in half and separated into four smaller and thinner ones that too contorted and shifted around unnaturally.
He could design small metal bars to serve as a skeletal structure for these cretaions that were thin, light and durable enough to separate what was once an arm of modest thickness to one as narrow as his finger, and yet was able to halt a blade and flex slightly without breaking. With enouhg of these, it simply became a test of how many separate pieces could be woven together to replace key sections. An arm could contain four of these at each joint, and could then split into four separately controllable micro-arms at a moment's notice just with a small bit of chakra and careful planning. It was not as strong or as durable as the fully formed cohesion, but between shinobi, the loser was usually the one who ran out of surprises the quickest.
Days like today were the ones Shin disliked the most. His father manufactured puppets and their designs to be used by the Shinobi Forces of Sunagakure and frequently tested the betas and prototypes out in the testing grounds not to far off from the newly designed Sunan Residences. But because of this constant testing and redesigning the man often leaves things laying about where ever he played with his incomplete toys. Apparently he was testing a new mechanism to allow for instant reloading of some of the bulkier traps in his Proto V:3.7A offensive design. To be honest Shin couldn't distinguish the Proto V:3.7A from the Proto V:3.6D but apparently it was enough difference to be classified as a different build instead of an updated version. Shin's father's puppet all seemed to mirror a common theme, animals. For example Shin had to help structure the wings on the Alpha C:7 series to mimic that of a Sunagakuran Crow because apparently they moved to similar to that of a buzzards. Don't let me get Shin wrong, he loved his father and all of his creations but this tedious redesigning was exhausting especially when Shin had to run all of the errands.
I'll probably be leaving soon anyway, unless either of y'all wanted me to stand around trying to decipher puppetbabble]