Their complaints were something regular that they brought up.
It was quite a normal occurrence for them.
The main problem with their position was that their department was not well managed, and it was mostly a place for eccentrics and lazy people.
There would be some who would sit around doing nothing the entire time, while the others would be deeply interested in tinkering with all kinds of things.
Some would have a speciality that they would have more of an interest in, while others were a little more versatile.
There were various materials and tools available, but the stock was limited.
A lot of the things provided by the school were limited by the funds that were made available to that department compared to others.
The demands for that department could be quite high at times, so it was difficult to keep it going.
If it were not for the demand for things needing to be fixed or crafted, then it would have been downsized or would have vanished quite some time ago.
A lot of the work connected to it was usually dumped onto the students, and they were left to manage what they were given.
If they ever ran out, then it would be up to them to handle what would need to be replaced or purchased.
It was told to the students that it was a way to test their ability to earn money and market their inventions, but it was just a way that the school could avoid responsibility in many ways.
Some would be making or fixing up hero costumes, or would be working on fashion, since the department had been merged with others.
It was the same when it came to inventing all kinds of hero support tools or weapons, along with other alterations that would be made to their hero costume.
There were even parts of the department that had been merged together from other departments that had more to do with making things that had less to do with heroes, as they were more aimed toward fixing ordinary devices or inventing them.
Reina had mainly spent her time on what she loved, which was mostly related to making and fixing hero support gear.
Tiffany had been more interested in mechanics than anything else.
It fit more with her current pursuits as she had spent a lot of time studying and tinkering with those kinds of things.
It helped that she had someone within her contacts who was so useful to make puppets for her, but she could not rely on him forever.
There would be limitations to what he could do, even if he was quite skilled.
She enjoyed the idea of building very strong and sturdy puppets and all kinds of machines that could be made use of using her Quirk to control them.
They did not even need the usual parts installed that would usually be used to control them by a remote control or something more complicated, like programming that would let those creations carry out directives and their intended function.
The best way to explain it was that they needed to be like lifeless shells with nothing controlling them for her Quirk to work on them.
If they were living, then she could not make them one of her puppets.
If they already had something else directing their movements, then that would interfere with what she would want it to do, causing some form of conflict to happen as a result of it.
If she were trying to control a machine that was receiving instructions at the same time from its programming, then it was uncertain which would end up working at that time.
Perhaps that conflict would result in one of them working while the other would fail.
Perhaps that would result in some form of damage being dealt to the one that was unable to achieve its purpose, like being overloaded.
Perhaps the two would be unable to function properly and would both become overloaded and damaged in the process, whether it was the programmed hardware or her mental capabilities linked to her Quirk.
The soulless puppets never resisted her as she controlled them, so there had never been any conflicts like that.
Perhaps she was just overthinking things, but she imagined how those problems could arise and how her Quirk could best be put to use.
Her puppets could be in the form of toys, mannequins or even something far more complex and sturdy like those that she used for her alternative identities, like her current one.
If she kept improving then perhaps she would become capable of building something even greater than what she currently had available.
She had realised the limitations of her puppets quite recently from her recent activities, and she had lost one in the process.
They were not invincible and came with certain drawbacks, especially when going up against Quirks that had far greater destructive power.