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For anyone newer to this and want more context for recapped points, I’ve previously done T3nna pee math here on a confession post before I had this account, and then here on my blog.

Before getting into it, there’s an argument about units that can become an elephant in the room, and there’s about to be lots of units here, so let’s address it. I admit I was raised to use US customary/imperial measurements, but in my field of study, metric is often favored. For omorashi math, I like both! There’s different things one scale can be better than the other for, and it all depends on what you want to do. And here, that means jumping between scales. I try to explain the matchups without harping on it too much, but do ask in the comments if anything is confusing and I’ll explain more. Imperial measures can be nicer for some drink sizes and consumption in smaller fluid volumes less than a liter. There’s some opportunities left to hint at an exact quantity without using numbers, too many of which might clog up the narrative flow in writing projects or just wouldn’t seem right in dialogue. The pint is great. It’s a practical drink size that lines up with tall glasses or single use water bottles. It’s also very close to a half liter or 500 mLs, but again, flows better in writing. A cup can also flow better, though may be less clear if it’s a volume measure or just describing a container that might be bigger than that. Some alcoholic beverages are measured in terms of pints like beer, and others in ounces, particularly with mixed drinks being put together though milliliters have their place in that too, and intox has its ties to omo, along with the diuretic effects of those beverages, too.

But even though the saying more often uses imperial and goes pounds lighter and there is an advantage to this, metric is by far the better system for converting fluid volume over to weight. Or mass, because the imperial semantics are a misnomer, but that’s also an old habit that would die hard if we tried to change it. It’s favored in science because it’s designed to do this in factors of ten that just math nicer. 1 liter of pure water is also 1 kilogram, and likewise, 1 milliliter is 1 gram. This works because water is the reference point that was set up as having a specific gravity of 1 which is the calibration factor for how heavy a certain volume amount of fluid is. And unless some life threatening levels of dehydration or other bad things are happening, the specific gravity of urine isn’t going to be high enough above that of water to make a significant difference in weight between the two without an amount of urine that most characters just wouldn’t be able to hold. It’d take multiple gallons to see something that would show after rounding. Normal urine is slightly heavier than water because there are some other things mixed in it, but even really concentrated urine wouldn’t come within a tenth of a difference for most characters as it’s usually not going to be above 1.050 unless they need to go to the hospital. So to not go through ugly complicated math for a difference in the end result that only shows with leaving a long and awkward decimal, for our purposes here, we’ll set the weight of pee equal to water. The reason I do all this nerd talk to mention the difference at all here is to make a point that the amount of pee is slightly heavier than what we get with simplified calculations, if that teeny tiny difference does matter to anyone. It is heavier and working in favor of the dramatic effect, so it is worth that!

Anyway, when we talk about a character who is bursting to pee and then they say they feel pounds lighter after going, it’s typically seen as an exaggeration. And it is. But there’s some truth to it. We know that a liter of pee weighs a kilogram plus an imperceivable amount more, and if a kilogram converts to about 2.2 pounds crossing back over from metric, then someone at their limit holding close to a liter of pee is going to be about 2 pounds lighter once they let it out. They don’t even have to manage to hold that full liter to hit 2 pounds, either, with that kilogram being more than double. It converts to about 900 mLs to get 2 even pounds. Or a minuscule amount less volume if we really want to push the argument that concentrated urine is ever so slightly heavier than water. They are indeed pounds lighter. And for the dramatic effect, while metric is our best friend for easier conversion math, imperial and pounds give us a bigger number to describe the weight. That’s why we want to switch back over for the saying. That difference gets even bigger and more fun when dealing with really large characters like T3nna, too, as I’ll show here.

Recall again from previous bladder math nerd talk that the average sized human bladder can comfortably hold around a pint, or half liter. So around 500 mLs, or half a kilogram, roughly a pound at the point of starting to feel some amount of desperation, and at an absolute limit might stretch to hold a liter or those 2.2 pounds though forcing this limit too often can cause damage over time. We scaled T3nna up by 3 because of his canonical height of 15 feet that approximates to 3 times human height, and we factored in the possibility of him having a larger than average bladder on par with one that might hold up to 1.5 liters.

With that scaling, T3nna would actually be several pounds lighter. If he can hold our range of 3 to 4.5 liters or kilograms with low end/average sized bladder to high end/large bladder scaling up. Well, 3 x 2.2 = 6.6 pounds if we’re giving him low end, and 4.5 x 2.2 = 9.9 if he’s given high end capacity. Close enough to say he would feel ten pounds lighter if he has a large bladder and was holding to his absolute limit. A gallon falls in the middle of that range around 3.8 liters or kilograms, so he’d be just shy of 8.5 pounds lighter using that measure, too. But maybe this the best argument yet to have T3nna have a larger than average bladder? Even if it’s weak and he can’t always hold it until it’s filled up all the way? Being stuck doing shows after drinking too much coffee so he’s forced to hold for hours until his limit, and then he finally gets to pee after barely making it or maybe he didn’t make it, and he literally is ten pounds lighter, let’s fucking go! Who’s with me?

And actually, with T3nna being able to produce so much pee because of his size, that tiny little factor that I left out of the math but harped on that wouldn’t make a measurable difference in a human sized bladder? It could make a measurable difference on him if his urine were more on the concentrated side and push it even closer up on that 10 pounds. Though, even at his large size, it’s still not really worth it to go through the trouble to only find that maybe it’s something more like 9.95 pounds. Big whoop, we’re going to round up to the nearest half pound and end up at 10 anyway. But just understanding that technicality is all the more justification to say 10 pounds instead of 9.9!

And I am putting together posts on the bladder capacity math of the other characters I use in my omo stories for context, but without going too deep to take away from that, I do headcanon the popular idea of Sp4mton having a smaller than average bladder where he probably wouldn’t reach a liter at his fullest aside from very uncommon situations that might stretch him further which I’ll get into when I do his post. But I did calculate him reaching his typical max limit around 900 mLs. While he doesn’t reach that full liter or a whole kilogram of pee that has its appeal as a big amount, he still fits 2 pounds of it in a small body. In his pu.pp3t body that might actually feel pretty heavy! And again, pounds lighter compared to not quite a whole kilogram make him a good show of how imperial units have an advantage for this part.

Something that will become important in one of my eventual stories is my version of M3ttat0n having a 1.5 liter coolant waste tank. He does use purified water for that most of the time because it’s easier to dispose of than chemical coolants that may be toxic, so that comes out to 3.3 pounds. And being water, that is an exact match so no tiny weight difference caveat here. His hydraulic waste tank is larger at 2 liters, but hydraulic fluid is lighter than water or going back to heavy nerd talk, specific gravity less than 1 and the difference is great enough that yucky math with that as an additional factor would be necessary to be semi accurate. I’m not doing it exactly, or typing it out, but rounding that factor up to 0.9 so I have a nicer factor to subtract out than with 0.86, 2 liters of hydraulic fluid would be roughly 4 pounds (as opposed to 4.4 if it were water that we’d probably round up to 4.5 to be able to say four and a half). I’ll have more on him in a future post, but two tank structures analogous to bladders full at the same time leave him weighed down and there’s other consequences on his motion than just being heavy.

Before going into Norrie Nonymous the Professor mode, if you actually got through the first post and are actually here for more of my cha.rlie br.own.ing into the void, all I can say is thanks! It wasn’t intended to be this long but I started writing my thoughts and this is what happened!

Now after going through everything in part 1 about T3nna’s arms, what does that have to do with omo?

Short answer, a lot. It seems a popular idea for him. I like it. There’s a lot of different ways it can pan out, and that goes to the long answer. His arms and hands not working with him and being unable to undo his belt and pants works, and it works at multiple checkpoints. Maybe the malfunctioning wire is one that only affects really fine motion in his fingers, and he could even undo the belt and get it off if it weren’t for the tiny little clip to get the buckle to release so he can actually pull it open and get it off. And it probably upsets him more that it weren’t for that one tricky step that’s too much, he’d be fine. It could be that his hands are limp, but the rest of his arms work, and maybe he could still hook his thumbs onto his waistband and get his pants down if he didn’t have on his belt but now he can’t manage any part of the belt. Or it could be all the way to his arms hanging limp at his sides and not being able to do anything with them at all. He can’t open the door of the room he’s in to get out and go to the bathroom, let alone undress himself if he got there. That could be the wires breaking, or maybe the weld scar fatigued, or he just pinched a wire. Maybe a pinched wire could slide free just in time for a barely made it or a made it halfway through wetting.

And then there’s the point from part 1 that T3nna’s arms aren’t his only problem. His legs weren’t detached, but they probably don’t feel great all the time between his age and the impact of falling, and there’s internal things that might not be quite right either, so his sense of balance might be off. Maybe his arms are moving just fine, but they’re weak, and the rest of his body is just sore or off-balance enough that he needs to use his arms to help push himself up out of a chair or bed. Even if he could have gotten to the bathroom and done everything just fine if he had already been up, bearing his body weight on his arms to get himself up so he can get there could be that one thing that’s too much.

Maybe he has all the motion, but he’s just having a bad day with neuropathic pain. If he starts anticipating that whatever motion he’s trying to make is going to make that even worse, he might get too scared to try and just stay where he is while getting more desperate while frozen in fear. Hopefully he has someone with him to distract him from anticipating so this doesn’t get that far out of hand. And if the fear itself isn’t making his desperation worse, it’s not helpful.

Taking a side road from physical impairment sabotaging attempts to make it to the toilet on time, a lot of these possibilities are reasons T3nna might feel a bit gl00by. And if T3nna gets gl00by, he might just shrink down. Depending on what’s bothering his arms, that might help him and get his function back by reducing the weight of his arms. But that might not help him fast enough before another problem catches up to him.

T3nna’s ability to shrink down being a risk of him peeing himself? That’s another popular idea, and I’m all about it. Getting technical with it could be fun, and since I already outed myself as the T3nna bladder math anon on deltaruined-confessions, let’s bring that back and figure out just how much of a problem the shrinking down really would be. Not accounting for any d4rk w0rld magic that might impact bladder capacity, which is to each one’s imagination.

Recall that by most physiology sources, the human bladder comfortably holds up to somewhere around 400 to 500 milliliters, and for most, is dangerously swollen by a liter, though larger than average bladders might hold up to 1.5 liters. I believe that very old textbook from way back in high school stated that holding becomes painful anywhere from 600 to 800 mLs on average as well.

On the confession blog, we scaled the maximal human bladder capacity up threefold for T3nna, because his full height from official sources is 15 feet and five feet is close enough for human height and makes for nicer math, and that means his maximum bladder capacity could be about anywhere from 3 to 4.5 liters depending on if we’re taking the low or high end capacity for multiplication. A gallon is almost dead center in that possible range, too.

It’s important to factor in with the definition of maximum capacity that T3nna is already desperate and struggling long before he gets to this volume. IF he even gets there, and most of the time, he probably won’t after getting cle/av/ed. I agree with the popular idea of him having a weak bladder from age, too, so if half capacity is where discomfort usually kicks in, he’s already starting to feel slightly desperate at 2 liters, give or take. Around a liter and a half if we went low end and capped him out at 3 liters. This is where the typical bladder is becoming more persistent with urges. Urges are actually the bladder trying to squeeze while full to increase the sensation. So if his holding mechanisms aren’t what they used to be, that’s a lot of volume left and a lot of time to have to withstand all those urges to actually get to maximal capacity. Which is, as the book says, dangerously swollen. Actually doing some damage to the bladder lining and straining. Maybe not enough that it won’t heal if it happens on the one-off rare event, but the body doesn’t want to do that, and for good reason. It gets really hard not to leak or lose it to urges before even getting here because the bladder is going to try and protect itself from damage, so unless it’s been stamina trained with frequent holding, it’s probably not going to get there unless there’s an obstruction preventing peeing, or if the upper muscles that push everything out aren’t working appropriately for a ton of reasons that don’t need to be gotten into here. Also, this is why too frequent holds by choice aren’t great, because that mild damage happening faster than it can heal will eventually stack up and come at the cost of strength. It’s not any better when it’s not by choice, as with paruresis, but that’s not always avoidable. Maybe at his peak, he had a good stamina to hold all the coffee he chugs until he really was pushing that absolute limit, but if he wasn’t already losing whatever strength he gained before getting cle/av/ed, he surely doesn’t have it anymore. Maybe he still can get there occasionally, under certain conditions. But that’s it.

But, getting back to shrinking. If T3nna were to be at that line of just starting to get desperate while at full height and shrinks down to just half his height, and if that cuts his bladder capacity in half, then he’s already wetting himself if we took the low end, and on the verge of it and hurting himself to hold it if we went high end. That’s if he goes down to half his full height, somewhere around 8 feet, and still very tall. So if he already needs to go badly enough that it’s uncomfortable, and he gets really gl00by and shrinks down to something tiny, it’s all over. There’s no way he could hold it if the pee isn’t able to shrink down to some amount with him, which even if it can, probably not proportionally.

Even better, if it takes a person about 200 mLs to feel any sort of urge to pee, approximately a fourth of that max capacity, give or take, at his full size with the adjustment for scale, T3nna could be holding somewhere around a whole liter of pee before noticing any sort of urge. This was implied, but not calculated out in my Maintenance In the Right Measure story because that would have probably been too much even for me and would have interrupted the narration flow. But there’s why even with preventative trips to the bathroom, T3nna can still get caught off guard and make a sizable mess when he gets sensitive areas tweaked during maintenance. And shrinking down is an even bigger problem here. If he can feel that he needs to go, and he’s not too overwhelmed by his feelings to be aware of other things, he might try to be careful to resist shrinking too much. But if he doesn’t even know he needs to go, he’s going to run into trouble if he gets down past a certain height.

Consider how much T3nna can hold before feeling any need with having a weak bladder, too. Anything that could make his holding muscles just give up out of nowhere. Maintenance, sure, but what else? Maybe a sudden fright. Or getting jolted in some way. He already has enough in him to make a big mess before he even knows he has to go, and there’s also those unpredictable things that he can’t try to make preventative bathroom trips before. But no, I’m not saying the circumstances around how that might happen in my stories aside from M3ttat0n doing maintenance, because that would be too much of a spoiler. I’m sure that could be done in ways I wouldn’t think of on my own, too. And with where I am in my story outlines, there’s more I might come up with later, but that’s what I’ve got for now.

I have to address the obvious first, because it’s expected. Cle/av/ed arms. If he doesn’t have these put back on right away, the problems before he gets them back are endless. But it wouldn’t be unreasonable to believe that he’d have some long term problems even after having them put back. This is a popular theory that can lead to many other popular issues. And it works so well if we tie it to real world stuff, too.

Yes, T3nna gets his arms back, and we’ll assume he gets all his wires spliced and soldered back together, and he eventually gets his shoulder joints welded so they’re properly attached. Even with everything repaired the best it can possibly be, it’s not like it never happened. I like to imagine robotic Dar/ken/ners as biomechanical, so let’s imagine wires are similar to nerves. The functions parallel each other well if we’re not going as far as chemical signals in the deep physiology. Nerves have limited capacity to regenerate. They can heal up to a point, but with massive trauma, major nerves are not going to come back to full function. Even if they come back enough to where someone doesn’t notice many effects, neurons have died off, and there’s differences in nerves that have been compressed, partially cut, or cut all the way through.

On the bright side for T3nna, wires do much better than nerves after breakage. But like a damaged nerve that manages to regenerate to a limited capacity, a torn wire that gets spliced back together is still more fragile than it was before it broke. And without proper insulation, contact with anything else to complete the electrical circuit by another path is possible. The coating of T3nna’s wires got severed, too, because everything got severed. Insulating tape isn’t as strong as a rubber cord coating, and it could come loose with excessive motion and humidity changes. That’s possible with T3nna’s d4rk w0rld form where he’s moving around all over the place. But, if repeated motion could cause individual wires to break at some point again, applying a proper rubber coating makes it harder to access that weak point where breakage will happen again in the future. Working harder and digging through a cord coating to get back into it to fix one wire might break additional wires in the process, too, and probably wouldn’t feel too good. Nobody wants a frayed nerve poked and prodded any more than necessary, so maybe the problems with tape are the lesser of evils.

So T3nna really will need more frequent, extensive maintenance on his wires going forward. If one small wire inside a cord detaches, and makes contact with another bare wire inside the cord, that can send aberrant signals. A pathway that was never meant to be connected opens up, and he has abnormal sensations, and maybe some twitching in one part of his arms, while another moving part doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to, or part of his arm is numb. The further down his arm, the more likely this is to happen with how far the wires travel, so unless it’s a wire that controls something further up and knocks his entire arm offline, this probably happens more as dexterity issues in his fingers, or fingers going numb and cold. Lack of power to his extremities is going to make them go cold too. He probably doesn’t tolerate cold temperatures as well as he used to, but if he had a more vital wire break, this could still feel cold even in a warm environment. If it’s a sensory wire, he could just be numb, but aberrant signals might mean tingling, itching, burning, or aches, too. I personally err on the side of non-painful things most of the time, but these are all the possibilities others reading are welcome to play with.

Some of these sensations relate to neuropathic pain. Even the non-painful ones. This can be weird, because sometimes it’s felt right at the source, but sometimes it’s felt in a completely different location as referred pain. Similarly, there’s phantom pain, which is poorly understood, but is believed to have some connection. Maybe T3nna should be completely numb in his fingertips with whatever wire just randomly disconnected itself again, or got pinched in a position that’s hindering its function, because that tape isn’t as strong as the rubber cord coating. Except there’s pins and needles instead, even if there’s no abnormal signal, and that path is completely disconnected and not getting any electricity to it.

T3nna could also have neuropathic pain of another sort around his shoulder welds, called windup pain. Without making this post three times longer or being the teacher with dialogue represented by a trombone sound effect any more than I already am to explain how that works, it’s related to sensitization from continuing pain. It’s why it’s easier to control pain by taking medication before something painful happens when that’s anticipated, rather than waiting for pain to get out of control to take something for it. It’s much harder to get back under the pain threshold once it’s been passed, and unfortunately, T3nna didn’t know that was going to happen and wasn’t loaded up on the cocktails of pain meds and local anesthetics that would be used for an intended amputation, or whatever that would look like in the d4rk w0rld. So, with windup pain and that hypersensitization, there could be days where if he moved wrong or got brushed up against in just the right place, it could be rough, especially early on in his healing process. On a bad day, he might even see something coming for his shoulders that never even touched him and react, because that signal will still happen with windup. And he would be well in his right to be gl00by and shrink down to nothing, because even though it seemed like nothing, it feels real! This does improve with time and healing, but realistically, he would have it to an extent with his injuries. Regular maintenance to prevent wire breakage and catch it in the early stages helps control him from redeveloping windup, and over time helps ease away what he had by supporting the healing process. Which is why in my writing he gets regular maintenance and is doing much better for it!

Another problem, not with the wires themselves is his shoulder welding. No matter how well it’s done, there is a weld scar. A thicker area compared to what his original body casing was. This isn’t unlike internal scarring and fibrosis in biological systems. Safe to say, T3nna doesn’t have the same range of motion in his shoulders he used to. But the scarring itself may pull abnormally on other structures and make a space tighter than it used to be as well. Putting his arm in a certain position may compress on the wires going back to connect with the chassis of the rest of his body above the site of cleaving, which also causes similar problems of numbness, tingling, and cold. He might try to move his arm a certain way reaching for something up high and suddenly lose his grip and drop things, kind of like with something called tho.rac.ic out.let syn.dro.me that involves nerve impingement. I’m putting dots in there because I don’t want this in the search results for people struggling with that who probably don’t want spicy content from fandoms in their search. Deeper connections closer to his chassis might give him backaches from the abnormal motion of his shoulders, too, or just the joints being tighter at that connection. If he overworks himself, he could be out of commission for a couple of days if he doesn’t have someone to massage out the tension, which with the right manipulation could free up any compressed wires. Spoiler alert, he will get this as comfort in my stories at some point

His shoulder welds also need maintenance in the d4rk w0rld, because they are a point of weakness with heavy arms attached, and they will fatigue with time. And they can go very wrong whenever they’re routinely redone. Too-thin welds will break down faster and might not hold his arms as effectively, which puts more strain on his wires, and based on the above, that’s not helpful to him. Though, it might prompt him to deal with it before his arms are falling back off in a situation where he puts off maintenances because he’s anticipating discomfort and scared about it. Too thick welds, and the decreased motion and wire impingement issues are only worse than they already will be. So that’s a delicate balance.

Enough about T3nna’s arms, though, because I think we might be sleeping on other things. Those are his glaring injuries, but T3nna fell down a massive drop when he got cle/av/ed, and he wasn’t shrunken down when it happened. With his size, that was a hard impact. Could he have had some other wires knocked loose in other parts of his body? Sure, he could have. They weren’t necessarily broken, so if they get reattached, he’ll be fine. Wires can be easily reconnected to circuit boards, unlike avulsed nerves pulled off their attachments. Figuring out where the problem is and getting to it though might be a whole thing, though, and maybe he doesn’t even notice some of these until he’s back up and moving around after his initial repair and recovery.

The canon plot screams of T3nna getting older. The joints in his legs are probably not what they used to be, and there’s not much on how they were affected when he fell. Which means anything could be possible. They weren’t detached, but they could have been hyperextended or dislocated. Any of those things could have temporarily pinched wires in his legs. These things, aside from the wear and tear on his joints are potentially recoverable if a wire wasn’t torn apart, but that could take some time, too. So really, he could be dealing with leg injuries, too. And anyone who has had leg injuries, or just been really sore knows that when trying to get around, arms are usually a compensation tool. Pushing up from sitting or laying down with arms, or using certain tools that pull weight off the legs, like crutches or a cane.

Maybe T3nna can still compensate with his arms on a good day, but if his arms aren’t working and his legs aren’t fully online either, he’s going to need someone to help him around. And he’s probably going to want it anyway, because with his abandonment fears and not being able to follow after anyone to try and prevent being left behind when he thinks that might happen, it would help him a lot to have someone come to him and help him out. Show that T/V some actions instead of just saying that everyone’s always going to come back! It’s gonna be awhile before he can believe it without seeing it! There might even be some room for comic relief in that. He would need to shrink down for most other dar/ken/ers to be able to help him around, which might be easy at first if he’s feeling gl00by because his legs and arms aren’t working right and he’s scared and all, but imagine if he starts feeling comforted by the help he’s getting and he starts growing back up to full size. Uh-oh!

And then canonically, he has a bent antenna, and a cracked screen is a popular concept, even though he doesn’t have this in the game if he gets saved. If his antenna isn’t braced right, it might not stay in position to pick up signals appropriately, so maybe this would equate to something like fatigue and brain fog? It seems more than fair he might have some issues with that. The cracked screen, if it’s used, which I personally don’t, but there’s nothing wrong with using that take is something I imagine would either affect his vision on one side, or give him sharp headaches, like migraines on that side. Again, I personally don’t go for that, because it feels a little too mean for me to do on top of everything else, but there’s side effects of migraines and all I know work for some people here, so it could be something. He’s also mentioned to have messed up colors, so maybe his internal degaussing mechanism doesn’t work quite right anymore. Since that corrects the ion flow, I imagine that would present as vertigo. Maybe it gets worse in certain positions, or with certain activities. My own take, I like to think it doesn’t make him feel sick unless it gets exaggerated by maintenance procedures for a short moment, but it does have an effect, especially when his arms and legs already aren’t at full strength to help him balance. So that’s another time he might be dependent on someone to help him around, or even if he can get around, he just wants to shrink down and be carried because it’s comforting.