Private The Need for Speed

[Aris Noble]

Aris was staring in pure wonderment at all the supplies that were just there, offered. He glanced only briefly to Valery as if to double check this was, in fact, okay. It was dad's, right? But mom said it was okay? He didn't overthink on it any longer as he instead stepped in to start gauging the different pieces. Find what would end up working for the board he had in mind and what wouldn't. The engine would probably have to be rebuilt given the parts he used, if they were going to increase just how fast the board could go.

"Should we.. Can we start now?"

Valery Noble

 

[Valery Noble]

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Outfit: Wedding Ring

Valery looked back at him and smiled, "Dad will be fine with it. He already knows." The material here could easily be replaced and it was meant for projects like this, anyway. Maybe not specifically building dangerously fast hoverboards... but projects! She'd give her husband the puppy eyes and he'd definitely be fine with it.

Otherwise, couch, and she had no problem with it. Seeing her son this happy and excited was a blessing.

"Of course, let's get started. Maybe we should sketch or draw a bit of a design? Work out some of the problems and then engineer it out. Otherwise, we might run into something as we're building it."

Aris Noble

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[Aris Noble]

"Sketch?"

Aris tilted his head before again looking at the parts. Sketching made sense, to at least get a good shape. So.. He took up some parts to start sketching. In 3d. His hands heated up, blistering to a temperature to make the various parts malleable. He fully shaped metal itself to be his sketch, separating parts with ease to make the rough shape out of the scrap he'd found. This was how he made his board without proper tools after all. Between his strength and the ability to heat things up as his mom had taught him, this was easy.

Valery Noble

 

[Valery Noble]

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Outfit: Wedding Ring

"...Aris."

Valery watched him and blinked. She knew that she had taught him the skills to be able to do this — she could melt steel like this herself — but she had never even considered using it for this purpose. It worried her slightly because if something were to happen and he'd lose his control somehow, then he'd be in contact with heated metal.

The motherly part of her brain did not like that thought at all.

"Be uh... be careful, please."

Aris Noble

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[Aris Noble]

Aris paused before blinking and looking back to Valery. And tilted his head. He didn't see the problem here, that much was obvious. He'd never actually burnt himself. In fact, since he learned this, he hadn't burned himself once. Which was it's own problem on his confidence and lax nature on just how dangerous this all was. For the normal person, it was just that. Dangerous. But the more Aris trained with the Force, the more he worked, the stronger he seemed to be.

Or, perhaps, the more evident it was on just how abnormal he was made.

"I will, don't worry."

Valery Noble

 

[Valery Noble]

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Outfit: Wedding Ring

"Alright, let's get to work, then." She still wasn't entirely sure about this application of his skills, but she'd have to trust him. There was going to be a day when he'd be too old for her to be worrying like this, so she couldn't smother him forever. She just... wasn't ever going to stop worrying about her kids.

They meant the world to her.

"Do you want me to get some paint ready, too? Once the frame is ready, we could make it look really cool." She chuckled and watched her son work on the metal. It was possible for her to join him, but this was his project. She wanted him to be able to tell his father and siblings what he had built.

Aris Noble

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[Aris Noble]

Aris gave a bright smile and nodded as he looked back down to the metal he was working. Bit by bit he shaped it to what he wanted, angling and shifting metal as if he was working clay. The basic shape would be easy enough to make, but he took it a step further once he did get the shape he wanted. He carved into the metal, simple designs, sections for where an engine could fit that he'd alter once they had the mechanics.

He even started to temper it. Gatz Derrevar gift to him to see how people forged steel blades hadn't left his memory. Metal needed to be tempered through heat, and he could very much temper it with his hands.

"Can you get me the other board? I want to start measuring up for the other parts."

Valery Noble

 

[Valery Noble]

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Outfit: Wedding Ring

"You know an awful lot about this," Valery said while she watched. "There was a time when I could keep up with you and Vera, but I'm starting to feel as if you two learned a lot of things I don't know about." She smiled proudly, but it was a strange feeling. More and more, she began to understand that their lives were a lot more than their interactions with their family now. They had their Master, they had different teachers, friends and so many other sources of information.

How much did they still need their parents, she wondered.

"Yeah, of course." Valery walked over to where they had left his board and brought it to him for measurements. "Anything else you need help with, sweetie?"

As always, she wanted to help.

Aris Noble

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[Aris Noble]

"I learned a lot. From you and everyone else."

Once the other board was brought he started to get much more intricate with how he was shaping the metal. Using the other as a guide, he created the divots, holes, everything necessary to hold the engine within the board, the repulsor lifts below. It was clear, as he started solidifying and tempering the shape, how much he was using mom's speeder as inspiration. "Do you know how to wire? I've sort of been taking it as I go. It'd be good to properly wire it up than trial and error."

Valery Noble

 

[Valery Noble]

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Outfit: Wedding Ring

"I can tell." She watched him work, and without any sketch or drawing containing exact dimensions, he was assembling quite a design. A board that would be much faster than his first concept, and she doubted that many others would have anything better either. His would be lightweight, powered by a good engine, and with an added boost option to make a difference when it mattered, he'd surely be winning a lot of races.

Or just have a fun time taking it out for a spin.

"I'm afraid I'm not very good at that. I didn't build my own speeder or... anything, really." she smiled sheepishly and looked between the new board and his old one.

"We could get an expert for it. Otherwise, trial and error."

Aris Noble

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[Aris Noble]

"Mm. No. I like this being our project. We'll figure it out together."

The idea of bringing someone else in wasn't appealing in the slightest. This was mom and son time, in Aris's mind. She wasn't upset with him making a board, and wanted to help him make an even better one. There was never going to be a reason to bring someone else in, provided they didn't blow up the engine. He hadn't so far, so.. Maybe they were good? He hummed in thought as he finished shaping the board for the external parts.

"So.. We'll start with the engine."

Valery Noble

 

[Valery Noble]

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Outfit: Wedding Ring

Our project?

Valery was quiet for a moment and looked at him with a happy smile. He likely had no idea how much this meant to her - that he wanted to share this moment with just his Mom. Or maybe he did realize. Kahlil and Vera both knew how sentimental she could be when something concerned family. Aris knew what his Mom was like as well.

Now they just needed to not blow up this engine. For the first time in her life, it made her willing to learn engineering skills. Only because it'd let her keep having fun with her son.

"Let's start with the engine. Just be careful. Don't want you to accidentally....zap yourself!" As she said it, Valery poked into his side, just to see if he was ticklish. His father was not, but he wasn't exactly like Kahlil, was he?

And she was feeling a little silly.

Aris Noble
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[Aris Noble]

".. Oh yeah that is a worry, huh."

Getting zapped wouldn't be fun, presumably. Aris was about to start taking apart the engine, but paused as he felt a poke on his side. He blinked, glancing down before up to Valery. Very clearly confused.

"What's up?"

Valery Noble

 

[Valery Noble]

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Outfit: Wedding Ring

Chit, not ticklish either.

"...I saw a bug. On your side," Valery lied with a sheepish smile. She then cleared her throat and quickly pointed at the engine, hoping to change the subject before he realized, "Let's test the circuits to make sure there's no power on them. Even when an engine is off or if a component isn't wired up, there can still be a current within the circuit." She didn't know this because of engineering or mechanical skills.

She had learned the hard way — by getting zapped.

"Your Dad has a meter for it in the cabinet." She went to retrieve it and offered it to him.

Aris Noble
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[Aris Noble]

A bug? Aris raised a brow, but, he didn't question it further. Instead he nodded once to his mother before stepping over to the cabinet to pull out the meter in question. He glanced it over and.. Didn't know how to use it. He glanced up to mom, hopeful, for a least a moment before handing it to her and started to attach the engine to the board. The actual metal bonding would be good for now, they could work on the circuitry once they were sure how the device worked.

Valery Noble

 

[Valery Noble]

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Outfit: Wedding Ring

Valery was relieved when Aris approached the cabinet and-

Oh no, he was handing it to her. Valery blinked, accepted the meter, and stared at it for a long moment. She had seen Kahlil use it before. He had even tried to explain how to use it once or twice. But every time, she hadn't shown much interest, mostly just been a pain in his butt, and probably spent her time teasing, rather than listening.

What could go wrong?

Zap!

"Ow!" Valery yelped when she did, in fact, measure correctly but in the process, her hand touched another live wire. She grumbled, rubbed the shocked spot and looked at her son.

"See? Still got some current left in it."

Aris Noble
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[Aris Noble]

Zap!

Aris just about jumped out of his skin at the sudden shock. He glanced to Valery in a moment of panic. Had he fried his mom? Had he hurt her? Had he already messed this all up? He blinked as she seemed to be alright, but what had happened? He glanced between the meter and his mom. .. Oohh. He chuckled a little, nodding. Alright, then. It was still live. Then he just needed to.. He reached over, flicking the switch to shut it down.

They were going to work on a lot of the circuitry, it'd be best for it not to be live.

Valery Noble

 

[Valery Noble]

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Outfit: Wedding Ring

Having noticed his reaction, Valery did her best to offer a warm, reassuring smile. She was alright — just a little tense after getting shocked. But she wasn't injured, and certainly not above joking around, "Not a word to your Dad. He won't let me live it down if he knows." She chuckled and watched him flip a switch to cut the power. Currents still could flow, even within a system that was shut down. A charged capacitor, for example.

But nothing would be lethal anymore.

"At least it was just me," Valery then added. If he had been zapped, she wouldn't have been joking around nearly as much. "But let's work on adding that boost, hm?"

Aris Noble
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[Aris Noble]

"Tell him what?"

Was he agreeing to keep quiet? Did he genuinely not know? Hard to tell, but he was quick to move on to finding the parts they'd need to increase the speed of the engine. Extra fuel injection, probably. He fiddled with the engine, the machinery, making sure connections were done right. He was focused, but he did ask Valery for help. Mostly to keep parts together, guidance on what could be hooked up.

Valery Noble

 

[Valery Noble]

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Outfit: Wedding Ring

"Hmm, very good," Valery said with a warm smile. Of course, there was a chance he'd tell anyway. Kahlil always showed interest in the things they got up to, and he'd surely have a lot of questions when he heard that Valery, of all people, had been getting her hands dirty with mechanic work. She couldn't even begin to count the amount of times he had tried to get her into it, or at least teach her a few things.

But somewhere along the way, he had probably realized it was futile to even try with her.

"There, I think we've got something now. With a boost though... do you think we should paint flames on the board?" She grinned a gremlin grin this time.

Naturally, she loved the idea of adding anything related to fire.

Aris Noble
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