[Viktor formulates his plan on the fly, but it's a spiral of brilliance and insanity. The logic goes:
Jayce needs a transfusion of Viktor's blood so the anomaly infection can revert from rot to growth. He needs a working heart to pump that blood. Viktor is some manner of bug, which really only need a heart the same way a machine needs an engine. His human heart is serving that purpose, but it should be replaceable in him with mere engineering prowess. If he can give his organic heart to Jayce, it should pump the shimmer transfusion to everywhere the man needs healing.
All that in order, a sufficient spark of electrical force should kickstart him back to life.
Viktor has jumper cables, a conductive metal body, and an electric vehicle. All he really needs to make for himself is a mechanical heart. How difficult could that be? It's just an automatic pump, when all things come down to it. He can build something passable from scraps and upgrade it later on. There's no knowing how long he has before Jayce is truly, really, too far gone. Viktor does what he's always done... he gets to work.
Having a third arm really helps his productivity speed. Monstrous as his transformation feels to him, that part he would keep given the choice.
If there is one thing to be said about Viktor's persistence, it is that nobody believes in Viktor as much as Viktor does. He leaves no room for doubt that this will work. Ultimately, he is the Herald and the Herald is an extension of his obsessive core. He will do this. He has nothing more to lose.
The scene around Jayce's truck grows increasingly elaborate. The cybertruck is parked, engine roaring at full electrical output, brick left on the gas pedal. Viktor has cracked open his own chest cavity and installed inside himself a new core, capable of pumping the shimmer blood as an insect's heart does. His own, still organic heart is severed with the help of that scalpel sharp third arm. He gasps at the transition of relying upon natural organ to reliance upon a machine, but he's so close now. Pain and discomfort are nothing, Viktor has long been at the threshold of how much agony he can even process at once.
All he can think of is how worthwhile this accomplishment will be.
He severs and removes Jayce's torn and shredded heart. It is replaced with Viktor's own, the organ still beating. Viktor connects it to transfusion leads into his own arteries, releasing valves and letting shimmer flow freely through him and into Jayce. There should be no rejection, this way. No incompatibility between transplantation and donor. They are all of the same.
That reaction occurs just as Viktor first witnessed. Replication. Growing. Healing. The divine opposite of rot and decay. He's struck by the profound beauty of it before him.
Jayce will live. He will. Viktor grab the sparking jumper cables charged to his truck and attaches them to the root of his third arm, upon the metal anchor points that once braced his degenerating spinal column. His entire body buzzes with electrical energy, it conducts through his metal skin with ease of energy flow. A rub of his palms together to work the charge. No further hesitation.
He pressed both hands to Jayce's chest and defibrillates him.]
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Jayce needs a transfusion of Viktor's blood so the anomaly infection can revert from rot to growth. He needs a working heart to pump that blood. Viktor is some manner of bug, which really only need a heart the same way a machine needs an engine. His human heart is serving that purpose, but it should be replaceable in him with mere engineering prowess. If he can give his organic heart to Jayce, it should pump the shimmer transfusion to everywhere the man needs healing.
All that in order, a sufficient spark of electrical force should kickstart him back to life.
Viktor has jumper cables, a conductive metal body, and an electric vehicle. All he really needs to make for himself is a mechanical heart. How difficult could that be? It's just an automatic pump, when all things come down to it. He can build something passable from scraps and upgrade it later on. There's no knowing how long he has before Jayce is truly, really, too far gone. Viktor does what he's always done... he gets to work.
Having a third arm really helps his productivity speed. Monstrous as his transformation feels to him, that part he would keep given the choice.
If there is one thing to be said about Viktor's persistence, it is that nobody believes in Viktor as much as Viktor does. He leaves no room for doubt that this will work. Ultimately, he is the Herald and the Herald is an extension of his obsessive core. He will do this. He has nothing more to lose.
The scene around Jayce's truck grows increasingly elaborate. The cybertruck is parked, engine roaring at full electrical output, brick left on the gas pedal. Viktor has cracked open his own chest cavity and installed inside himself a new core, capable of pumping the shimmer blood as an insect's heart does. His own, still organic heart is severed with the help of that scalpel sharp third arm. He gasps at the transition of relying upon natural organ to reliance upon a machine, but he's so close now. Pain and discomfort are nothing, Viktor has long been at the threshold of how much agony he can even process at once.
All he can think of is how worthwhile this accomplishment will be.
He severs and removes Jayce's torn and shredded heart. It is replaced with Viktor's own, the organ still beating. Viktor connects it to transfusion leads into his own arteries, releasing valves and letting shimmer flow freely through him and into Jayce. There should be no rejection, this way. No incompatibility between transplantation and donor. They are all of the same.
That reaction occurs just as Viktor first witnessed. Replication. Growing. Healing. The divine opposite of rot and decay. He's struck by the profound beauty of it before him.
Jayce will live. He will. Viktor grab the sparking jumper cables charged to his truck and attaches them to the root of his third arm, upon the metal anchor points that once braced his degenerating spinal column. His entire body buzzes with electrical energy, it conducts through his metal skin with ease of energy flow. A rub of his palms together to work the charge. No further hesitation.
He pressed both hands to Jayce's chest and defibrillates him.]