[Gadget] Squish-bot

[Ace Dreamer]

Can you biomod a squish-bot?  Yes, as long as the mod is
principally physical, as opposed to mental, behavioural or 'spiritual';
even those might be allowed if someone was 'living' in the squish-bot.
Do
wavium abilities and quirks carry over into a squish-bot?  Yes, but
only if they are principally mental, behavioural or 'spiritual' (i.e.
not those rooted in the physical structure of the body); this only
applies while that particular person is 'living' in the squish-bot, and
they go away when they leave (they take them with them), even if the
body had been made a perfect duplicate of their handwavium-created or
biomodded one.

I'd expect that the resultant "biomod" is
merely from the additional handwavium... the process of activation
alone is essentially a form of biomod, and you usually don't get two
biomods on the same individual without some serious risk. It can be
done, but it's reserved for medical emergencies.

Activation arguably isn't a biomod, because before activation there isn't a living creature to biomod.

Where is the handwavium?  There is a very small amount of
highly specialised locked-purpose handwavium, tied-up in the bones, and
particularly the skull; there is none anywhere else in the body; this
self-destructs if the squish-bot reverts to a doll or otherwise dies.

Given
the activation process, I highly doubt that the handwavium would
concentrate quite so neatly. Yes, the vast majority of it may be locked
up in the "bones" of the "guts", but some of it would probably remain in
the soft tissues.

The handwavium is applied to the plastic skin of the sex doll, there is no handwavium in the water, and a minute amount in the injection.  The injection causes a change that sucks any residual handwavium from the skin into the core of the now-living body - the bones.  If some doesn't get into the bones then it is likely in the cartilage, then the tendons, then in somewhere like the liver.  Extra handwavium is most likely if you used more than necessary. [grin]

I would expect that, while it might well work, there might actually be
enough handwavium "contanimation" involved to induce a biomod in the
recipient, regardless of the intent.

There shouldn't be any handwavium in the blood unless something has gone really badly wrong.  It would be unwise to use any bone tissue.  The liver is not a 'paired organ'.  Yes, if someone is splashing handwavium around during the ritual things could go really badly wrong.

Does anything strange happen if you keep a squish-bot alive
for a long time? Yes, though even total life support in an ICU wont
extend their basic seven day life span; if you somehow extracted all the
handwavium tied-up in the bones then you'd have a normal human body
that you could keep alive indefinitely (biomodding has this extraction
effect, getting one pregnant doesn't) - if someone 'lived' in a
squish-bot at least 98% of the time for at least seven months then this
destroys the handwavium, leaving only a normal human body.

I
do have a problem with this part... it might be "theoretically"
possible, but for the foreseeable future, my understanding is that once
something is 'waved, you really can't extract the handwavium from it.

In a living body biological processes slowly turn-over tissue.  The handwavium in question isn't actually doing anything to keep the body functioning, the body is running on standard human biology.  It is just sitting there on a trigger waiting to clean-up if the body dies.  So, if you remove that trigger then there is no clean-up if the body dies.
Hopefully that clarifies things.  But, if dramatic whatever requires it, you could have handwavium do all sorts of things.  Wooops! [grin]
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