"If you're asking about Functionism, I don't think Caminus himself would have put up with that." His word wasn't law, at least not on social issues of that kind, but it still carried enormous weight.

"You can wash out of a field by not being good enough at it, of course, but it's not based on altmode or anything..." Nautica trailed off for a moment, gaze going distant as she thought through the possibilities she'd never actively considered before, "though I guess if you wanted to do something that required an aerial altmode when you only had wheels, or some other mismatch like that, you'd be out of luck. We don't have the resources to go around doing reconfigurations for non-medical reasons."

She stopped and chewed her lip for a nervous second. He was asking about construction methods, too, and his future self had been really touchy about that.... "I, um, know it's a sore subject, but...all Camiens are forged. 'How we were created' isn't a consideration."