[Open] Morning Training! - February 16th

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Characters: Everyone!

Location: Training Grounds, Shibusen

Rating: PG-13 for violence

Time: 5am to 10am

Description: Every morning in the city, Morning Training takes place to prepare the guests of the city for the war. It's handwaved most days, but approximately once a month this gets played out in a log. This log takes place on February 16th.


FAQ: Questions answered by Maito Gai
Breakfast: Run by Cinderella, Katakura Kojurou, Saya Tagaki, Yugo
Batch One: Beginners under the age of 15. Run by Prussia, Auron, Steve Rogers
Batch Two: Adult beginners. Run by Kaoru Kamiya, Maito Gai, Tifa Lockhart
Batch Three: Intermediate fighters. Overseen by Hyuuga Neji and Ling Yao. Please see list of random sparrers.
Batch Four: Experienced fighters, for sparring with each other. Overseen by Haruka.
Weapon Transformation: How to find your form. Run by Yuuri, Ishida Mitsunari, Spirit.
Soul Perception: If someone doesn’t know by now. Run by Luna Lovegood, Azusa
Partner Training: How to work together as partners. Run by Tassadar; Maka and Soul; Shizuo and Motochika; Eve.
Weapons Handling Training: Run by Genesis Rhapsodes, Tenten.
Shooting Range: How to Shoot. Run by Grit, Leon, Naoto.
Meister Ability Helpers: How to find it out. Run by Death the Kid, Edgeworth.
Finding a Partner: Run into others looking for partners and see if you can work together! Run by Sasame.
Fighting Witches: Speak to an actual Witch and learn some of what you're facing. Run by Cybele.
Medics (And First Aid Training): Training run by Naomi Kimishima, also a place for medics to gather and talk. (First Aid Training may need to be handwaved, player is on hiatus.)
Audience: For people to just gather and talk.
Watch: For Watch people (and prospective new members) to gather and talk.

For training via sparring:
Katakura Koujurou
Uchiha Itachi
Hyuuga Neji
Chosokabe Motochika
Steve Rogers
Maito Gai
(Various NPCs available upon request)
Partner vs Partner sparring is also good!

Feel free to start your own threads in the official groupings as well as elsewhere!



Breakfast
Lau [Open]
Clare [Open]
Loki [Open]
Yami Bakura [Open]
Bakura [Open]
Stan [Open]
Dylan [Open]
Yuuichi [Open]
Saya [Open]
Sheena [Open]
Taiyou [Open]
Duo [Open]
Luna [Open]
Utena [Open]
Nagi [Open]

Batch One
Taiyou [Open]
Utena [Open]

Batch Two
Clare [Open]
Yami Bakura [Open]

Batch Three
Sapphire [Open]
Sophie [Open]
Hinata [Open]
Sheena [Open]

Batch Four
Amateresu [Open]
Raidou [Open]

Weapon Transformation
Clare [Open]
Shindou [Open]
Yuuichi [Open]
Lee [Open]
Kariya [Open]

Soul Perception
Naruto [Open]
Stein [Open]
Stan [Open]

Partnership Training
Haruka and Cinderella [Unknown]

Weapons Handling Training
Taiyou [Open]

Shooting Range
Bakura [Open]
Yoichi [Open]
Aion [Open]
Saya [Open]
Re-l [Open]


Meister Ability Helpers
Gamzee [Open]
Loki [Open]
Sophie [Open]
Yugo [Open]
Touma [Open]
Demona [Open]
Chika [Open]
Misa [Open]
Raphael [Open]
X [Open]
Mitsuba [Open]

Finding a Parther
Clare - Weapon [Open]
Sapphire - Meister [Open]
Bakura - Weapon [Open]
Amateresu - Meister [Open]
Yami Bakura - Meister [Open]
Leo - Meister [Open]
Takasugi - Weapon [Open]
Hades - Weapon [Open]
Ryoki - Weapon [Open]
Demona - Meister [Open]
Chika - Meister [Open]
Steve Rogers - Meister [Open]
Nagi - Meister [Open]

Medics and First Aid Training
Yuuichi [Open]
Clovis [Open]
Taiyou [Open]

Audience
Yuuri [Open]
Stan [Open]
Leo [Open]
Rokudo [Open]
Ryoki [Open]
Duo [Open]
Nagi [Open]

Watch
Sasame [Open]
Duke Pantarei [Open]
Roy [Open]
Aion [Open]
Stripp [Open]
Re-l [Open]
Jules [Open]

Other
Gai [Open]
Clare [Open]
Chrono [Open]
Kenshin [Open]
Mithos [Open]
Auron [Open]
Kratos [Open]
Stein [Open]
Takasugi [Open]
Rokudo [Closed]
Dylan [Open]
Hades [Open]
Keroro [Open]
Naoto [Open]
Duke [Open]
Allen [Open]
Demona [Open]
Sendo [Open]
Bumblebee [Open]
Saya [Open]
Tenma [Open]
Chika [Open]
Kanji [Open]
Yugo [Open]
Jules [Open]
Ed Elric [Open]
Hitsugaya [Open]
Lee [Open]
Raidou [Open]
Kaoru [Open]

Comments

[lionborn]

[He smirks wryly, lips pulling up to show a fang that's way too pointy to be human.]

I'm a lion without a pride. What can I say, I get around.


What type of Weapon?

[alastinglight]

Katana.

[Demonstrating now, by shifting his arm into the black, serrated blade part of his form.

Now watching your reaction.]

[lionborn]

[He smirks at that display and crosses his arms in front of his chest. Sure, it's impressive, but he has worked several Weapons before. One of them is a sword who could do a similar trick.]

Is it just me or did you just get all sharp and pointy all of a sudden?

[alastinglight]

[That reaction, at least, is encouraging. He finds that he might like this one a bit.]

Oh, I'm not sure. Perhaps we'll have to test things a little more, mm?

[lionborn]

Perhaps.

[He gives up on the arm crossing in favor of flicking the ash from his cigarette. Giving Takasugi a good look, he adds in a more serious tone.]

There's two thing ya should know before we try it, though.

[alastinglight]

Oh?

[Go ahead: he's listening.]

[lionborn]

[He ticks the points off by his fingers.]

One, I'm like the king of bad resonance. Don't be surprised if we'll get zapped.
Second, I'm no good playing nice with authorities. If ya don't like that, this is your cue to turn back.

[..and third, he has no idea how to wield a sword, but he figures that that's a problem that can be dealt with after it really becomes one.]

[alastinglight]

Authority is overrated anyway.

[Smiles. Shall we?]

[lionborn]

[His lips curl into an amused smirk as he stretches his arm out in a come-hither gesture.]

Funny, hearing that coming from the lips of a human. Well, here we go~ 'name's Leo by the way.

[alastinglight]

Takasugi.

[He's transforming in full, even as he's reaching for Leo's hand. He's a full blown blade within seconds.]

[lionborn]

[His feline instincts help him to catch the katana with relative ease and without risking to lose one of his fingers in his haste. Closing his hand around the handle, he gives it a curious glance - he is no expert about blades at all, but he is still pretty sure that the edge shouldn't be that serrated. ...even if that makes it look cool, together with its black color and that wolf-symbol on it.

Banning the thought from his mind, he slowly tries to open himself a bit more to whatever it is that they call resonance of souls in this world. He is scared of letting others too close to him anymore and it shows in his wavelength that is wary and careful, not unlike a wild animal that approaches something big and new: Leo is ready to retreat at the first sign of getting lashed out at, quite unlike his outward 'cool' demeanor that he tries to maintain.]

What's the wolf stand for?


((ooc: I hope it's okay that I took the Weapon form description from your journal and played a bit with it.))

[alastinglight]

It's the animal that I relate with best.

[Takasugi is surprisingly careful in return, going only for the anchor that they both needed in order to connect. There was some real power behind his soul, but he held it back beyond whatever he needed to give in order to settle them both into resonating.]

Take a few swings. We can talk while you're at it.


ooc: I don't mind at all! o3o

[lionborn]

[He isn't getting that sickly feeling of being rejected by the Weapon right away which is good. Having the other do the resonance-equivalent of respecting his personal space is another very good thing, since it gives him a better chance to relax and open his own soul which is strong but also surprisingly brittle and worn down from having to fight way too often. Giving the dark blade a doubtful look, he readjusts his grip in order to do as he was told.]

A wolf, huh? [He swings the blade once, twice, trice, still waiting for a sudden jolt of electricity or heat.] Does that mean that you have some pack that you really care about somewhere?

[alastinglight]

Yes, in a way. They sort of decided to follow me all on their own, though.

[No jolt just yet. Takasugi was measuring the other's reaction, still giving just enough, still observing Leo in order to know how he needed to adjust. What he could show, what he had to hide.]

[lionborn]

Huh. Sounds more like a pack of street-mutts to me, then.

[He smirks, the expression being fuelld by sarcasm and bitter self-irony to equal pieces. He swings the katana once more before he stops and gives it an expecting gaze.] Well?

[alastinglight]

Many of them were.

[The strong ones were not. Hence, they survived. He chuckled.]

You're not half-bad.

[lionborn]

[He stops, giving him a short sidelong glance. Usually people get more defensive about their groups.]

Same here. The question is if we manage to get above that or not.

[alastinglight]

I'm sure we can work something out. We seem to be getting along swimmingly as it is.

[lionborn]

Mhm. [He doesn't agree or disagree just yet. The last guy he thought he was getting along with just swimmingly turned out to be a sadistic rapist shortly after. But he was pretty okay up until right before that. Better than most adult gangsters that Leo has met.] Can you get into my head? I know that some Weapons can give you tips how to wield them without hurting yourself.

[alastinglight]

Will you let me?

[He'd certainly try, but he wanted this to be as mutual a partnership as possible.]

[lionborn]

[There is a short moment of hesitation - Leo hates having somebody take control of any part of him and his life again, but he also knows that it's necessary if he wants to fight with a weapon that would normally require years of training. Giving himself an inner push, he nods.]

Sure, go ahead.

[alastinglight]

[He waits patiently for that response, then makes an small noise of acknowledgement once Leo's given him permission.

When he does push into the Meister's mind, he does so lightly, intent on showing how much he respects the other's space. After that, he's showing himself in battle: brief but instructional flashes, on how one must hold a katana, how one can kill with it.]

[lionborn]

[Despite the lightness of the invading the foreign contact still sends a cold shiver down his spine. Forcing himself to inhale slowly, Leo slowly readjusts his grip on the Weapon to how he had been shown to hold it. Once he is sure that he has got it right, he closes his eyes (after making sure that nobody was nearby whom he could accidentally stab. Accidentally stabbing people isn't cool).]

O-kay. Here goes-! [He snaps into action, moving and slashing quickly as he reenacts what he has been shown, creating a deadly mimicry against imaginative enemies. He is by no means perfect, but what his movements lack in skill they make up with sheer speed, strength and agility granted by his monstrous heritage and experience as a brawler.]

[alastinglight]

[There's a hum of approval at that.]

It'll do. You're not going to chicken out when you drive me through a kishin, I hope.

[lionborn]

[There is a short but violent moment of hesitation as unwanted memories rush through Leo's head. Him, at that night, killing the guy who had tortured him less than an hour ago. Ryoki's and Haru's sick laughter in the background and the satisfying feeling of breaking the other until he was just a cooling lump of flesh - and the disgust and terror he had felt of himself the moment he had come back to his senses.

Leo's problem isn't that he can't kill; it's that there's a part of him that enjoys it entirely too much. Pushing the memory down and away with force, he shows the other man a grim smile.]

I don't run away from the things that need to be done. Just don't expect me to be proud about the killin'.