Understanding fully that you can't actually get a rant like this going on people like Maine because those people will interrupt, or ignore you, or kick you out of the safe house, possibly with actual kicking...
"Maine, do you understand how bones break? They aren't magical willpower conduits, they're physical materials with specific limitations. You break bones by exceeding those limitations, and no amount of some imagined toughness is going to stop it."
"Yeah but-"
"No, shut up about the chrome. I'm making a point here. Once you break the bone you can maybe push through the pain and keep doing whatever, assuming it wasn't something critical and you just crippled yourself, and you can probably call that "tough". But since you are actively accumulating more unnecessary damage by exasperating the original issue, I'd really rather call it fucking retarded. Ruining your health to satisfy your ego."
"ye aren't talking about bones here to begin with-"
"Nerves are exactly the same you dumbass fucking gonk! Physical materials! Specific limits! When someone tells you "this is the limit", exceeding that limit builds up damage! Maybe a little at first, but you keep making things worse with your gonk-ass decisions and eventually you'll be rolling into a fight half dead! Working with half-broken equipment - and your body is fucking equipment - gets you fucking killed!"
"If your body breaks you just replace the broken part with more chrome! I can-"
"THAT IS HOW YOU GO CYBERPSYCHO."
Everyone paused for a moment to let that settle in.
"It's not about the amount of chrome you have jammed in your gonk-ass half dead body. It's about everything else cascade failing because you kept abusing the parts that worked until they stopped working, then added even more stress, in the form of extra chrome, to half-broken ganic connections, and then kept abusing them until they broke too.
"The only way; the only way, you bypass all that... is scooping your brain out and putting it in a full-body replacement. Then we'll see how tough you are, because your willpower will be the only thing left for you to break.
"You will note that a full-body conversion like that has incredibly high cyberpsychosis rates. Because as it turns out, you can't just drop a person into an entirely new shell and expect that to work out well. They need the experience with normal chrome first.
"You're looking at cyberpsychosis either way... unless you let your gonk-ass body heal from the shit you shove in it between adding new parts. And since the ripper is the expert in how that ganic shit breaks and how to avoid it, how long it takes for ganic parts to heal and acclimatize with their specific material properties that continue to not be magical willpower conduits, you listen to your fucking ripper."
Mokoto shrugs.
"Or not, and then I guess I'll see you sometime in a landfill after you burn out."
Mokoto looks around, noting she is outside the safe house and nobody is around.
"... wait, when did that happen?"