Tag: hands

o-bi:

the handclamp (otherwise known as the surgeon’s gloves, catcher’s mitt or crab claw) is an ingenious and brutal form of torture, originally devised by the Decepticons. it’s designed to take advantage of a medic’s naturally sensitive hands, inflicting increasing amounts of damage and pain over a long period of time. 

specific designs vary, but constants tend to be:

• one to three shackles around the forearm, making it difficult if not impossible to transform out weapons or tools
• narrow bars that fit inbetween the fingers, forming a painful and constant friction as the hand is bound tightly against them
• a Y or W-brace against the wrist, keeping it bent backwards towards the chest at an extreme angle
• adjustable joints allowing for graduating degrees of binding

long-term use of a hand binder can lead to joint stress and snapping, nervous wire damage, numbness, hand paralysis, and ruptured energon lines, just to name a few.