nysalogs | research for this post lead me to find that all-terrain wheelchairs exist, and they are beautiful

Who: Yusei Fudo (

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What: guess who's forbidden from working on projects inside the house
When: a few days after SIDEQUESTMAGEDDON
Where: outside his house, Residential District
Warning(s): yusei being a grubby greasemonkey

[After their...heated discussion regarding Yusei's projects taking up too much space in the house and Sanzo taking things up in his own hands...in several ways...Yusei's finally taken the hint and has started working on projects outside the house.

Seeing him work, it's pretty obvious why. Once the guy actually gets started on something, it takes someone getting into his face to distract him, and there's all sorts of odds and ends scattered at his feet. Looks like he's used his payments from the various quests to get himself a set of proper tools, too, if the small toolbox at his feet means anything.

He seems to have multiple projects going on, as well. The first is a steam engine that apparently was taken from a junked car, and tweaking it seems to be the more dangerous of the two. In fact, he frequently seems to be forcing the thing to emit copious amounts of hot steam in his efforts to figure it out, and such a thing happens just around the time someone might come around to take a look.]

Gh-! Ah... [He turns and blinks at the new arrival, red-faced from the steam and somehow visibly sheepish despite his stoic demeanor.] Sorry, I didn't mean to cause you any trouble...

[Visible next to him and the misbehaving engine is the beginnings of a bike frame, an electric motor used for a fridge, and...some kind of chair. It looks like it's meant to be a wheelchair, but Yusei, what is that. That's goofy looking. And are those...treads next to it on the floor? Where did you even get treads? Don't tell them you're going to put those on the chair, Yusei? That's silly. Stop that.]

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You really want me to test drive your treadwheels?

[By the way, that's what it's called now. Junpei looks at it, arms folded, seriously considering how much he trusts the idea of a wheelchair with a motor on it. Not because he doesn't know about electric wheelchairs - please - but... uh... Yusei....

His gaze moves to the literal steam engine sitting there.]

Not that motor, I hope.

[As if on cue, the motor emits another batch of hot steam with a high-pitched fweeeeeeeeee. Yusei doesn't even flinch this time, instead just staring directly at the motor until it calms down, his face indicating that he's apparently deep in thought.]

...Interesting idea. It could work.

[He's joking. Really.

...I mean, he probably is.

...Right?]

[UH...]

Hey, whoa, hold on. You're going to get whoever this chair is for killed if you do that!

[Yusei please give him a clue?? He can't judge half of these resting bitchface expressions.]

[Yusei keeps the expression for a few seconds longer, just enough to make someone wonder if he even heard them with how heavily he's staring at that motor.

Then he cracks a smile, and looks at Junpei.]

Don't worry, I wouldn't do that. This kind of engine on a wheelchair...it's not practical. They'd be spending more time refueling it than actually going anywhere with it.

[IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT?]

[YUSEI.....GAZE.....]

You're a real comedian, you know that? [He doesn't doubt that a guy who keeps an engine on his coffee table would try to strap it to a chair? Don't do this to him.]

Look, should it sit on it and push it around a little, or not?

[Look, it's totally something he's imagined doing since he was like. Five. Rocket chairs would have been amazing. Don't tell him now that he's eighteen and totally capable of putting rockets on chairs that he can't do it. He totally could. The potential, man.

But okay, he'll actually sober up a little and be serious now. This is an official project for someone's well-being, after all.]

Go ahead. I'm trying to design a wheelchair that can move around on all sorts of terrain, so a test would help out.

[No... Junpei sighs, but alright, he'll take a seat in the chair and sort of push it back and forth a little... with his feet, that are still on the ground.

Give him a second, he'll figure out where to put those and grab the actual handles in a minute.]

Uh, so... should I just go up the street and back?

[You know what, that'll work. Can't hurt to start with the basics, right?]

If you think you've got enough arm power.

[Is that a challenge!! Nah, Junpei's not that kinda dude, but he does roll his eyes.]

Yeah, yeah. Hold onto your hat.

[Or that weird hair... Anyway, he'll roll a few houses down and then come back, he supposes. He's not secretly buff like some people, so he's not super speedy, but he manages. It works: it is a functional chair with wheels.]

[jumpy why are you still mad over his arms that he's clearly totally not showing off by working out here in the sun with his jacket off.

Anyways, Yusei watches Junpei roll off without a word, watching how smoothly the chair goes...or doesn't go. It's still a pretty basic frame, so...

When Junpei comes back, he seems marginally more serious.]

Did it feel like a smooth ride?

[WHERE DID THEY COME FROM]

It felt like... a ride? I've never been in a wheelchair before, but uh, I guess it was fine.

[WHERE DID THEY COME FROM, WHERE DID THEY GO, WHERE DID THEY COME FROM, THAT GUN SHOW-wait, they're still here. they've always been here they're his arms junpei]

Well, if you didn't have any difficulties, that's good. I want to make this as accessible as possible. Thanks.

[they're offensive]

Right. That's the point of wheelchairs, and everything. I've seen ramps before. [What is he... ignore him. He pushes the wheelchair back and forth in place a few more times, then gets up. Yep, it's a chair.]

[you're offensive]

Mn. That makes it all the worse if it's a chair that can't live up to its premise, right?

[Yusei, don't honor that kind of idiosyncratic aside, it's nonsense, you're nonsense.]

How hard is it to put wheels on a chair?

[Go on... regale him.]

That's not the hard part.

[oh, wow. Yusei's actually humoring him. Of course he would.]

[Hm..... hmmmmmmm, okay. He'll bite.]

What's the hard part? It's not that advanced.

Hm...That would be making a wheelchair sturdy enough to go over multiple terrains, but flexible and comfortable enough to sit in for hours at a time...it's a bit of a cross, you could say...

[Huh. What.]

A cross between... what? A chair and a tank?

[Yusei??]

A tank...? I hadn't considered going that far.

[Junpei, you're giving him ideas. Or more opportunities to snark at you. It's not clear which.]

You can't make a wheelchair tank.

[Just no. That's a rule now. He's made it one, officially.]

[Yusei says nothing, but pointedly gazes at the treads he's collected. He was planning on putting them on the wheelchair anyway, only to give it that sweet all-terrain function, but what's the harm in teasing Junpei a little?

C'mon, Junpei, consider it. Wheelchair tanks.]

[No... not unless he gets one-- no, it's bad!! It's dangerous!]

Dude, come on. Tell me you're not building a tank out of a chair.

I'm not.

[~~yet~~ no really he's not. honest.]

The client didn't ask for that.

[...so you would if they asked? or]

Well try not to start loosing tank chairs on the city, alright?

[Make him this promise.... it's vital.]

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