[ There's a smile again, and for a moment a glimmer of another person in Jayce's expression - someone a little less worn down and hardened, someone charming and full of heat and pride who had put nearly a decade between himself and the worst day of his life. It's strange now, how small that moment in front of the council when his life nearly ended even feels now. How that feels like an entirely different person.
And then Viktor's leaving, which for a split second has him worried that he'd said something wrong - until the rational side of his brain kicks in and he realizes he's just going to retrieve something from his bedroom-workspace. Jayce wolfs the last of the eggs and the toast before he returns with his journal, shifting the plate to the side so he can look over the notes, the furrow at his brow steadily burrowing deeper. ]
Okay. This is - [ He's scanning the notes a second time, almost touching the pages before thinking better of it, not wanting to smudge it. He leans in, waving a hand near his forehead. ] I mean - even internal prosthetics feels like you're stretching the definition here, V...
[ In another tone, from someone else, the words would sound dismissive. Jayce mostly sounds slight taken aback, but mostly curious and impressed, already engrossed with building the schematics in his head piece by piece, sorting through the necessary materials - anything medical grade is going to cost, well - an arm and a leg.
He doesn't appear to notice how closely he's invaded Viktor's body space, their shoulders bumping gently. ]
excuse me while I bs my way thru runeterra medicine and engineering
And then Viktor's leaving, which for a split second has him worried that he'd said something wrong - until the rational side of his brain kicks in and he realizes he's just going to retrieve something from his bedroom-workspace. Jayce wolfs the last of the eggs and the toast before he returns with his journal, shifting the plate to the side so he can look over the notes, the furrow at his brow steadily burrowing deeper. ]
Okay. This is - [ He's scanning the notes a second time, almost touching the pages before thinking better of it, not wanting to smudge it. He leans in, waving a hand near his forehead. ] I mean - even internal prosthetics feels like you're stretching the definition here, V...
[ In another tone, from someone else, the words would sound dismissive. Jayce mostly sounds slight taken aback, but mostly curious and impressed, already engrossed with building the schematics in his head piece by piece, sorting through the necessary materials - anything medical grade is going to cost, well - an arm and a leg.
He doesn't appear to notice how closely he's invaded Viktor's body space, their shoulders bumping gently. ]