Immortal Experimentation! Won't this be fun?

[constantshower]

Characters: Kurotsuchi Mayuri, Yuca Collabel, and Rain Jewlitt
When: Friday Morning
Where: Mayuri's home and laboratory
Rating: PG-15 for taking Rain apart, more or less.
Summary: Rain has volunteered to participate in research courtesy of the twelfth squad's captain.

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[law_of_reason]

Kurotsuchi had looked forward to this. Immortality itself wasn't something he really believed in - though at hearing some of the apparent limitations of it, he considered that it was perhaps not entirely impossible. It still seemed a bit dubious to him, that without being actively killed by an outside force, that someone could just go on forever. Not that forever existed either; it was as human an idea as perfection

[constantshower]

"Ah--Thank you."

Now, he had to admit this as well. Mayuri didn't exactly look normal, but then again, normal is a pretty abstract concept to begin with. He shrugged it off and walked down the stairs into the laboratory prepped for his...whatever was going to happen to him. But he put those thoughts out of his mind. He'd be fine.

And so, he shrugged off his large white coat and unbuttoned his shirt as was probably expected of him, before sitting down on the large table with a sigh.

[neverquitedies]

Yuca's dark eyes flicked over Rain as he entered the room--the immortal didn't seem to notice him at first, which was to be expected. Rain hardly ever saw anything that wasn't right in front of him, and often, he didn't see that very well.

But he should at least make himself noticed, lest the other decide to panic when he was revealed. So, Yuca takes an obliging step forward, casting himself into the dim laboratory light. There was a dark mark on his cheek from where Rain had struck him just a few days ago, and from the distance he was keeping, it was plain that Yuca didn't intend for that to happen again.

He noticed the oddly-shaped scars on Rain's chest and realized, with some degree of horror, that what the immortal had told him was true. One of his hearts was missing, and through the scar-tissue, it looked as if it had actually been ripped out. Yuca wasn't quite sure how he felt about being the one who gave him that wound, but nevertheless, the mild surprise didn't manage to reach his expression at all

[law_of_reason]

That there was some... distance between the two didn't escape him, but nor did it occur to Kurotsuchi as being something that was important enough to pay much attention to. And the seeming reassurance from Yuca that he wouldn't try to involve himself in the surgery was a positive, even if he had yet to see whether it could be trusted.

Equally as good was that he hadn't had to coax Rain onto the table, and ignoring Yuca as the observer he was (except for a general caution towards his presence - but then, caution wasn't something that ever left him), Kurotsuchi focused himself on his new, currently-compliant subject. Rolling a cart to the side of the table, its surface carefully littered with any number of blades, hooks, tubes, thread, odd wires that sparked on occasion, and some carefully stocked vials - the scientist considered where to begin.

Before getting far, he'd almost certainly have to drug him. But if his healing ability was as great as claimed, would he actually be able to inject something before the wound closed? That