Being a handyman is painful?

[SmilingBerserker]

Somehow, being a handyman isnt all its cracked up to be. When i was at the fiar, it really hated having its picture taken and when i was fighting it, it mentioned that walking was like stepping on burning coal. Is it really that painful being one of those things?

[The Specialist]

It's gotta be. Like genetic engineering, organ enhancement... Euugh... Anyhow, yeah I'm pretty damn sure it'll hurt like hell.

[Chomp]

Originally posted by bsgkj:

Somehow, being a handyman isnt all its cracked up to be. When i was at the fiar, it really hated having its picture taken and when i was fighting it, it mentioned that walking was like stepping on burning coal. Is it really that painful being one of those things?

You don't get to be a 10 foot tall super machine for free.

[Drone 7]

I think its a link between them and Big Daddies, although the subjects in the suits are old people, who were probably in a lot of pain before doing this surgery and it ended up making certain areas more or less painfull. While with BD's the process of grafting the suits to the hosts is extremely painful but Suchong found a way to make the pain disappear after the grafting was completed.
Then again if you've ever fought a bouncer (big drill daddys) their screeches sound like they're in pain more than they're performing a battle cry.
I do think its weird however that Fink made both Songbird and the handymen, yet the latter is in pain while the former isn't. Maybe imprinting (on a little sister or Elizabeth) reduces the pain of the transformation and the handymen aren't given a subject to imprint on.

[SmilingBerserker]

Does the same thing apply to firemen? I mean, the suits they wear are on fire in the inside right?

[Lord Wayne]

^Apparently so.

"Firemen are trapped inside Iron Maiden-like devices that are constantly burning them for their wrongdoings in life."
http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Fireman

[ozzytudor]

Originally posted by Drone 7:

I think its a link between them and Big Daddies, although the subjects in the suits are old people, who were probably in a lot of pain before doing this surgery and it ended up making certain areas more or less painfull. While with BD's the process of grafting the suits to the hosts is extremely painful but Suchong found a way to make the pain disappear after the grafting was completed.
Then again if you've ever fought a bouncer (big drill daddys) their screeches sound like they're in pain more than they're performing a battle cry.
I do think its weird however that Fink made both Songbird and the handymen, yet the latter is in pain while the former isn't. Maybe imprinting (on a little sister or Elizabeth) reduces the pain of the transformation and the handymen aren't given a subject to imprint on.

Songbird looks more like its an actual robot unlike Handymen

[tspendragn]

The handymen got that way by being really ill, like from cancer. The cancers were removed, then the person was placed in a handyman exoskeleton. The handymen were always in pain, but they were made capable of having great strength in exchange for saving their lives. A tale of one was found in one of the workshops at Fink's factory docks.

[Drone 7]

Originally posted by The Psycho:

Songbird looks more like its an actual robot unlike Handymen

ok?

[Verb_๊]

Originally posted by Drone 7:

I think its a link between them and Big Daddies, although the subjects in the suits are old people, who were probably in a lot of pain before doing this surgery and it ended up making certain areas more or less painfull. While with BD's the process of grafting the suits to the hosts is extremely painful but Suchong found a way to make the pain disappear after the grafting was completed.
Then again if you've ever fought a bouncer (big drill daddys) their screeches sound like they're in pain more than they're performing a battle cry.
I do think its weird however that Fink made both Songbird and the handymen, yet the latter is in pain while the former isn't. Maybe imprinting (on a little sister or Elizabeth) reduces the pain of the transformation and the handymen aren't given a subject to imprint on.

Songbird isn't organic. It's completely artificial as far as I've seen. (Elizabeth being imprinted on a protoype Songbird head in BaS 2 backs this up)

[AKWolf]

Well they did have that protoype songbird on a heart monitor and resperator so hmmm.

[Hinsonator]

I'm guessing the Big Daddies were based off the cyborg midwives?