((Permission granted by Hodgins!mun! And Bones!mun, obviously, because... that's me XD Zack's italicized things are his written responses.))There were two thoughts running through Zack Addy's head, for the time being, and he wasn't entirely sure which to focus on first. On the one hand... Oh, man, this castle was too cool. Intricate brickwork,
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Anatomically speaking, Lily Evans-Potter hair was aesthetically pleasing. Natural red was a rare color, so far as hair went, and tended to appeal to the eye, didn't it?
Zack shook Sirius' hand, a little loosely. He wasn't used to shaking hands. "Zack Addy." He thought of adding something about being sorry for not picking Sirius on that, no offense, he just didn't swing that way, but... that might have been a bit awkward, on Zack's part. "And... you don't know what a robot is?" Screw the DVDs, that required attention! "A robot," he repeated in a flat tone, as if that would spark some memories. "Electro-mechanical anthropomorphisations." Oh, yes, because he was going to understand that so much better.
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Whaaaaaat? Sirius didn't get the monotone at all, and while he understood 'electro-mechanical', sort of (his reading up on electricity and motorbike mechanics had paid off), he had no idea what they meant when linked to the last word, which was complete gibberish to him. (Wizarding education was fairly lacking when it came to English and literature.)
"Come again?" he asked Zack in a somewhat bewildered tone.
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"Electro-mechanical anthropomorphisations," Zack repeated in that same definitive tone, shrugging a bit, as though he'd just said something as simple as 'the cat is Bob'. Okay, judging by Sirius' blank look, he'd have to break this down a bit, didn't he? "Electro-mechanical. Being that which combines the sciences of electromagnetism of electrical engineering and mechanics." Little more than that, Zack, not everybody's IQ's almost as high as DaVinci's. "Calculators, electrical motors, loudspeakers," he added by ways of example. "As for anthropomorphisation, that would be applying human characteristics to nonhuman beings, or inanimate objects."
In simple terms... that means it's a little, mechanical human.
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But if it were human, it would definitely be a girl.
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"It's... making a mechanic thing." With him so far? Yes? Yes? Okay. "That generally represents a person." This was so dumbed down, it was paining him. "Or a person's actions. Perhaps a machine to... make a grabbing, fist motion. Or... a machine to... be taught how to walk, or turn."
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"They're cool?" Sirius could understand that. "Right, so if I asked you to give me one, what sort of job would it do for me?" Obviously not his TA job, since that more than occasionally involved doing illicit things with the professor. Sirius was trying to imagine just what sort of job he needed done that he couldn't do himself with magic or the Black family jewels.
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What sort of job would it do? "Well... anything you want, really. It could... make your bed, get your shoes, make you a sandwich - although that design could take a while. Even destructive robots. Like Battlebots!" Oh, that conjured some excitement. "Chainsaws, hammers, crushing motions. Although I wouldn't condone to them as much as the former robots." He winced slightly then, in memory. "Battlebots are great." Glare at the floor. "Until they turn on you."
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He had no idea what Battlebots were, but they sounded dangerous, or at the very least, irritating. It would be sort of interesting to send one of those after Snape; the thought of a chainsaw or hammer combined with Severus Snape was quite pleasing to Sirius. But then Snape would destroy the robot, and Sirius was starting to get interested in the idea of taking it apart and studying it.
Maybe there was something he needed. Well, not something he needed needed, but something that would be cool. Something he could use, but would be no loss if he took it apart and couldn't get it back together again properly ( ... )
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But, hmm. Deliver mail? The owls were pretty sinister. He didn't blame Sirius for asking about a new possibility in the way of delivering it. He stroked at his chin, frowning in thought and contemplation. Deliver mail. It wasn't impossible. "It would... take me a while..." Considering he still tended to have problems with that whole 'following orders' thing with robots. "But... I suppose."
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He voted Zack into Ravenclaw, because any bloke who could make a machine into a person deserved to be with the rest of the smart ones. And with the bar, in case it all got to be too much.
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