I fucking love Horde Prime’s finger things. To be clear, not what he does with them, but I absolutely Entrapta-out over what they can do.
We see them create holograms which is fucking cool but there’s a lot that’s not explicitly shown.
For example, when he first grabs Hordak’s face and reads his thoughts, Prime grabs his head in a peculiar way that he doesn’t with anyone else.
He does this a second time to invade Hordak’s head, I think assessing him for purification.
Any other time he touches someone it’s one handed.
There’s also a beep-boop noise when he first does it to Hordak and the second time we hear the whispering noise cue of the hivemind. This all points to the claws having a specific use here, in my mind. Using both hands must set up some kind of brain breaking beam.
I think he would have that as like a form of quick scan, like a hardline in that runs faster than the wireless hivemind. He holds Hordak’s head for only a moment and sees everything he needs. Meanwhile, when he reviews Hordak’s memories in S5E1.
He’s way out of it long enough for the cat to be curious. The hivemind link is slower than the direct line in.
So what is he doing with one hand? Why is he so touchy-feely like all the time? Not just grabbing people to assert dominance but like, he puts his finger on things, not his un-armored fingers. His naked fingers might have actual tactile senses and the armored ones do not, but I don’t have specific evidence for that. I would believe it if the armored finger had tactile sense.
But he puts his armored finger on things so many times.
I think one finger by itself can do like light, undetectable scans of things. When he does the two hand brain beam, we hear and see Hordak’s discomfort over it. No one reacts to his one finger.
And that could mean there’s nothing happening but like… this is a neurotic control freak. I can’t believe there’s nothing happening there; I think the guy who’s whole deal is ‘seeing all’ and ‘knowing all’ would constantly be monitoring his environment to the point that putting his finger and hands on things is just as natural as using his eyes to see.
We do see other uses of the fingers, they turn off the lights after the artifact scene and command a disruptive signal in Save the Cat to destroy the Best Friend Squad’s comms.
So there’s so much this finger does! In such a small device. And is it armor he can remove or did he replace his fingers!? Either way, that so much power in an itty bitty device. If it was just something he wears, fuck yeah I’d wear one.