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[physioneural]

[ Alternate, huh? ]

Doesn't yours work off the physioneural output from your heart?

[ ooc: marvel totally made up this word, so they basically mean like the electric energy produced by the heart that fires through the nervous system or whatever. ]

[buildsomething]

Uh, no.

[Tony blinks once, because. What?]

It works from a-- you know what, hang on.

[And he walks over to where his suit is parked and carefully pulls the glowing arc reactor out of it's chest. He holds it up as he walks back over.]

This. It's an arc reactor.

[physioneural]

... That's it? [ Maybe that sounds harsh, but Steve is completely astonished by how small it is. His power source takes up most of his chest. And the amount of scar tissue to get it all to fit— ]

It's not connected at all to you. [ Daaaang. ] The future's looking pretty bright.

[buildsomething]

[Tony huffs out something that might be a laugh.]

It used to be. [He taps absently at his own sternum, in case it isn't clear.]