Aw man...that's so cool. I've always wanted to make something like that! I mean, I've made a bunch of different little machines and contraptions for the lab, but not an actual automaton...

[You can already tell just by looking at him that the gears are starting to turn, as if he's going to immediately go making blueprints for a hypothetical one as soon as he gets his hands on some paper.]

I wish I could see Alan! Honestly, it sounds way more complex than anything I've built so far...

[...Varian blinks, realizing something in his excited rambling.]

Oh! I don't think I got your name...?