[Open] Morning Training! - February 25th

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Characters: Everyone!

Location: Training Grounds, Shibusen

Rating: PG-13 for violence

Time: 6am to 9am

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 25th.

Official Areas:


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 Auron, Steve Rogers, Deryn.
Batch Two: Adult beginners. Run by Maito Gai, Tifa Lockhart, Cloud.
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, Spirit.
Soul Perception: If someone doesn’t know by now. Run by Azusa.
Partner Training: How to work together as partners. Run by Tassadar; Maka and Soul; Shizuo; Eve; Crona and Ragnarok.
Weapons Handling Training: Run by Genesis Rhapsodos, Tenten, Kerrigan.
Shooting Range: How to Shoot. Run by Leon, Naoto.
Meister Ability Helpers: How to find it out. Run by Death the Kid, Edgeworth.
Finding a Partner: For unpartnered Meisters and Weapons to mingle and find each other. Overseen by Sasame.
Fighting Witches: Speak to an actual Witch and find out some of what you're facing. Run by Cybele.
First Aid Training: Training run by Naomi Kimishima, Megumi, Kira Izuru.
Medics: A place for the medics to get to know each other and mingle.
Watch: For Watch people (and prospective new members) to gather, talk, and train.

Hug Brigade: Come get hugs!

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

Feel free to make your own open threads!



Breakfast
Ryoki [Open]
Bakura [Open]
Yami Bakura [Open]

Batch Two
Flora [Open]
Santana [Open]
Mitsuba [Open]


Batch Three
Takuto [Open]
Mithos [Open]

Batch Four
Amateresu [Open]
Raidou [Open]
Lili [Open]

Shooting Range
Death The Kid [Open]
Yami Bakura [Open]
Bakura [Open]

Finding a Partner
Stripperella - Meister [Open]
Ryoki - Weapon [Open]
Amateresu - Meister [Open]
Demona - Meister [Open]
Bakura - Weapon [Open]
Flora - Weapon [Open]
Londo - Weapon [Open]
Yami Bakura - Meister [Open]
Leo - Meister [Open]
Hades - Weapon [Open]
Yako - Weapon [Open]
Jules - Weapon [Open]
Kei - Weapon [Open]

Watch
Stripperella [Open]
Takuto [Open]
Duke [Open]
Neji [Open]
Mithos [Open]
Aion [Open]

General
Saya [Open]
Stripperella [Open]
Darcia [Open]
Ryoki [Open]
Gai [Open]
Demona [Open]
Takuto [Open]
Bakura [Open]
Kanji [Open]
Amateresu [Open]
Naoto [Open]
Raidou [Open]
Auron [Open]
Flora [Open]
Yami Bakura [Open]
Junpei [Open]
Leo [Open]
Aion [Open]
Hades [Open]
Itou, Qilby, Megumi, castmates [Closed]
Spirit [Open]
Hanabi [Open]
Qilby [Open]
Ed Elric [Open]

Comments

[tauborn]

Well, morning training only happens in the morning, so.... [He shrugs. Once he got use to the schedule, he was sure he'd be okay. As it is, it's not terribly bad.]

And Firecracker will be wanting to go on a walk pretty soon.

[topgun_textiles]

Your partner doesn't do it?

[tauborn]

[He snorts a little. That would be the day.]

Hahaha, no.

And besides, Aion and I have the same shift.

[topgun_textiles]

...Why don't I do it? Little guy can't hold it in all night while you're off on patrol.

[tauborn]

[Takuto looks a little embarrassed.]

W-well, you don't have to take care of my dog for me.... I mean, he sleeps pretty soundly through the night, and I let him out between patrol and morning training. [And he leaves the balcony door open just a little so Firecracker can use a puppy sandbox out there if he really has to.]

[topgun_textiles]

[Really, he wanted an excuse to pet the puppy. Kanji shrugged.]

If you say so.

[He paused, and looked down when he felt something brush against his side. It looked like that little bit of grappling during a spar tore his shirt up along the seam. He took hold of the material and looked it over.]

...Damn it. Hold on a sec.

[Not again. He fished a little gray box from his coat pocket and settled onto the grass. The box was opened, revealing several tiny spools of thread, scissors, and multiple needles. He selected a gray thread, and one of his thinner needles. It'd bother him if he didn't fix it now. The needle was threaded with next to no effort.]

I had someone come up n' try to get me to join, once. Told 'em no. I can't stand cops... why the hell would I wanna join somethin' like that?

[tauborn]

[He shuffles a little bit closer to see what Kanji's up to with that little box.] You can sew?

[The question isn't derogatory at all. He's more impressed and fascinated because it's something Takuto has never learned, and never really seen done before, either. His grandfather didn't know what to do with torn clothes, so together they'd just had to either get new ones, or, in the case of that middle school uniform that one time, they'd had to send it to a tailor's.

Still, he can't help think it's kind of like breaking a stereotype to hear a tough-looking guy say he can't stand cops while he's so deftly using a needle and thread.]

[topgun_textiles]

[He was three stitches in when the question was out in the open, and Kanji's hands kept on moving. Despite his comfort level in just sitting down and mending his clothes with an audience, a bit of pink still stung at his face.]

Been doin' it since I was little. My, uh... family runs a textile shop.

[He hiked up his shirt a little, turning that part of the shirt inside out to see his stitch better.]

[tauborn]

That seems so... useful.

[He watches intently, unaware that he might be making Kanji feel awkward.]

Your whole family makes clothes and stuff?

[topgun_textiles]

I can. I dunno about Ma... [He snorted. She did seem to be really good at trolling him pissing him off.]

[Gray eyes lifted from his work, and his face stung a little more. An elbow shoved down his shirt a little more. Self-conscious? After that mild interruption, he finished down the line and worked to tie it off.]

[tauborn]

[He leans back only a little to give Kanji some space, considering the other boy's skill. It's hard to tell there was ever any tear in the shirt at all.]

Was it just you and your mom?

[And actually, his voice gets a little hesitant. He doesn't really know if it's okay to ask Kanji about his family, but... he's curious.]

[topgun_textiles]

No.

[And he left it at that, biting off the end of the thread and putting everything back in the box.]

[When he looked back, inspecting Takuto's clothing for anything that needed mending, he hadn't noticed he was sort of glaring like a hawk.]

[tauborn]

[Takuto scooted just a little bit further away, cringing.]

S-sorry for asking!

[topgun_textiles]

[He looked up again.]

Huh? S'up with you?

[He didn't like that cringe.]

[tauborn]

I... guess you don't like talking about your family?

[The words come out gingerly. Kanji is capable of some scary-looking glares!]

[topgun_textiles]

[He slowly lowered a brow.]

What's there to talk about? Ain't like they're here, and it ain't like they're interesting... just weird.

[He shook his head and clicked the sewing kit closed, pocketing it.]

Answerin' yer question again, yeah. I can make stuff. Y'want somethin'?

[tauborn]

[Kanji has a point. And Takuto realizes he shouldn't be asking questions without being able to answer reciprocal ones.]

Well... [He hasn't thought of anything in particular, except... now that Kanji mentions it.... He can't help but think of how Sai said he'd wanted to see.... He brushes a hand unconsciously through his dazzling blond.]

I mean, I used to have this coat, back home... but it'd be pretty complicated to make and... [And he doesn't want to ask Kanji to go through the trouble of making it.]

[topgun_textiles]

['Complicated'? All Kanji heard was 'a challenge'. He sat up straighter.]

What'd this coat look like?

oh god I know exactly what it looks like after making it...... orz

[tauborn]

It was white. With some gold on it. [He looks at Kanji for a moment, and, given the boy's interested expression, decides to go into more detail.]

It had golden epaulets with blue orbs on top, and a high collar. It was doublebreasted and the buttons were blue, and instead of just white, parts of it were a kind of off-white. On the inside, it was bright red. The coat tails were huge, and hung down to my ankles when they weren't

[He didn't realize how much he missed wearing it until he started describing it. The whole outfit had been, in some ways, kind of like a part of him.]

And I wore a golden star, right here. [He presses his hand over his heart, eyes shining.]

[topgun_textiles]

[He listened, and noticed that change of tone in Takuto's voice as he described that coat in detail. Kanji slowly nodded, trying to paint a picture of it in his head, and by the time the other boy described the star, his mind was set.]

I'll do it.

[He nodded again, and looked the other boy over.]

...You doin' anything later? You could come by, get this thing drawn, get some measurements done. I needed a project.

[He'd finished that other project of his a while back. He just... needed to give it to her, now that he thought about it.]