The prone figure on the workbench made Jaewook furrow his eyebrows quietly as he looked over her lifeless form, shaking his head quietly. She looked familiar and he vaguely could recall her from his first week or so in the Valley, but he couldn't place her among the sea of people had come across in that time. He had been far too concerned about his own agendas at the time and hadn't paid much attention to her. A part of him regretted it, but he figured that now what she lay on his table, there would become intimate in one way or another.
Moving with the care of a professional, he removed the wet clothing the clung to her figure, setting them aside for the time being before he moved to dry her off. It was similar to a mortician taking care of a cadaver, but dolls' deaths were never truly permanent. With a trained eye, he looked over the joints catching the glint of metal. Jaewook stepped out of his work shop, grabbing up the hair dryer from the bathroom and started to work on blowing out the water from all of her joints to keep them from rusting over. The time slowly ticked by, but he was nothing less than a perfectionist and thorough.
Once the puppet was dried of most of her external water, he gently rolled her over onto her stomach, using his tools to remove the back plate. Jaewook made a soft noise of indignation at the amount of water that seemed to have filled her chest cavity, but it didn't sway him from his work. He moved to use the vacuum that was frequently used to drain out oil spills. As the machine worked, he began to carefully remove her inner workings, all of the cogs carefully coming apart beneath his nimble fingers and tools, charting out a diagram next to the doll so he knew how to put her back together later.
When he removed the heart, he looked over the cogs carefully, the engraving catching his attention. We waste time looking for the perfect love, instead of creating the perfect love. His eyebrow arched quietly and he chuckled softly, shaking his head slowly. "A pleasure doll, interesting..." he murmured softly to himself, setting the heart aside, making sure her chest was completely cleared out, letting the vacuum continue it's work as he started to look over the organs carefully.
Jaewook worked slowly, meticulous about drying every piece that had come together to make the doll. At one point he had taken to a cigarette, carefully smoking as he dried and patched up a few faulty cogs. The hours ticked by slowly as the doll lay on his table and more than once he rubbed at his face as fatigue began to set in, but he refused to stop, just in case. Someone may be in search for her and he would finish as soon as his perfectionist trait would let him.
It wasn't until several hours later that he was carefully piecing back together her inner workings. He had held back on improving her too much, unsure if a maker had left their mark on her for a certain reason, but he did a bit of maintenance and tune up to her systems. Before he turned her back on though, he returned to the memory slot at the nap of her neck, frowning for a moment as he began to work at taking apart her cranium, working to clean up the water from the cavity of her skull.
The water had done enough damage to the chip that held her memory, but Jaewook knew that would be the case regardless of the pace he worked at. It was ruined the moment she fell into the water and shut down completely. Removing the waterlogged chip from the rest of her cognitive functions, he sighed softly and shook his head, returning to his computer to see if anything could be salvaged but there was nothing. A frown tugged at his lips and he shook his head again in disappointment, returning to the doll as he started to add a twist of his own to her.
The memory system was outdated and the one that he had made to use on Luhan was far more advanced. Water damage wouldn't affect her memories, and so he set to install the new system, placing wires and a small computer system within the doll's skull. There was a small chamber filled with blue liquid that held the capacity to record memories on and he carefully encoded the information that Luhan was able to give him about her into a few of the crystals before installing it completely.
Rather than a slot at the nape of her neck, he converted it into a small plug where he could work on her later if the time came. It was tedious work but once he was finished, he began to close her up. The cranial cavity snapped in place and the back plate was screwed in. He clothed her in one of Luhan's shirts and a pair of sweat pants that he could find before he nodded to himself. She wouldn't remember much, but she was alive and she could start anew. That's the best he could do as maker and as a human being.
So with one final once over, bags under his eyes after endless hours of working, he turned the doll on and waited for her to wake up.
