soul_logs | Morning Training

Characters: Everyone!
Location: Training Ground, Shibusen
Rating: PG-13 for violence
Time: 6am to 9am
Description: Training takes place every morning in the park to prepare the guests of the city for the ongoing war. It's handwaved most days, but approximately once a month this gets played out in a log. This log takes place on March 29th.

Official areas:

FAQ: For people who have questions and need answers. Staffed by Maito Gai.
Breakfast: Providing food for those who come. All food-providers are given funds with which to buy the food and paid for the prep/cook time. Provided by Saya Tagaki.
Combat instruction: To learn or improve upon fighting techniques. Taught by Cloud Strife, Mickey Mouse, Auron.
Sparring: Show up, pick an opponent, and spar. Overseen by Amateresu, Spirit Albarn.
Weapon Transformation: Guiding new Weapons through the sometimes difficult process of finding a form and then re-finding their original one. Taught by Bakura Ryou, Yami Bakura, Aqua.
Soul Perception: If someone wants to find out more about their soul, what they are, and what they may potentially do. Overseen by Hades.
Partner Training: Guidance on how to work as partners. Taught by Spirit Albarn; Eve and Keroro
Weapons Handling Training: How to handle weapons and Weapons. Taught by Death the Kid with Liz and Patty.
Shooting Range: How to shoot. Taught by Naoto Shirogane, Maes Hughes.
Meister Ability Helpers: Learning what your meister ability is and how to use it. Taught by Kanji Tatsumi, Miles Edgeworth.
Finding a Partner: An area for unpartnered Weapons and Meisters to mingle in. Overseen by
Meditation: This month's novelty class is on focus and meditating. Taught by Hyuuga Neji.
Medics: A place for the medics to linger, recruit, and help anyone that's gotten hurt. Helping out are CR-S01, Rosalia Rossellini.
Watch: A place for the watch members to linger, recruit, and train. Interested observers welcome!
SEES: A place for the SEES members linger, recruit, and relax.
Hug Brigade: Offering encouragement through hugs. Staffed by Maes Hughes, Maito Gai.

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[Takuto skids to a stop in front of a rather large and vaguely humanoid practice dummy, lifting Yuugi high into the air and then suddenly taking a few quick steps forward because...

Yuugi is hard to balance, being much larger and heavier than what Takuto is used to. He puts another hand on the hilt to steady it for a moment, and then just passes Yuugi to the other hand entirely.

It's not as if he's any stronger with one or the other, of course. But with a grin and a flourish, Takuto aims Bakura's tip at the neck of the dummy, expecting to just get a small, neat slice across the throat. Instead, Yuugi thunks deep into the side of the neck.]

S-sorry! You're longer than I realized!

[Yuugi's first reaction at being swung towards a solid object is to flinch and shield his face with his arms, but that's very difficult to do while he's a sword... and has no arms. Much to his surprise (and relief), the actual contact is hardly noticeable, certainly not painful, even when Takuto's aim hits the dummy head-on instead of grazing it as he intended. It occurs to him that his weapon form is much sturdier than his own body, which makes a great deal of sense.]

'It's fine! Do you want to try again?'

[This latest realization sparks some curiosity. How strong is he in this form?]

Y-yes. [He's a little embarrassed by that mess-up, but he's bound to make mistakes when he's just learning how to wield Yuugi so he's glad that Yuugi doesn't seem to fazed by it.

He pulls the edge of the blade from the dummy, and then tries again, this time getting the tip slicing perfectly across the throat. His grin returns and he finishes the move with a spin and then a downward slice against the dummy's legs. This time he purposefully hits the leg squarely, pulling the hit's strength only slightly because he doesn't want to actually damage the dummy and he also doesn't want to be slamming Yuugi into everything at full strength.]

[It doesn't even occur to Yuugi to judge Takuto for that first mistake. He hadn't doubted the other boy's word when he claimed to be good with swords, and after Takuto's quick series of moves his faith is now very much justified. Yuugi is definitely impressed.]

'You weren't kidding before!' [It's going to be a while before he can be completely comfortable in his weapon form but he feels a good deal more at ease in Takuto's hands after seeing the evidence of his skill and realizing that it does not, in fact, hurt him to be smacked into things.

He can't help but be pleased and a bit excited as well, considering how well his form seems to suit Takuto's abilities.]

Kidding about what?

[He stops for a moment, frowning as he passes Yuugi to his other hand. But he's still wildly enthusiastic about wielding the weapon and he can tell that Yuugi is impressed with his... relatively average single-wielding skills. His response to that is to be more embarrassed than anything else, even though it does feel nice to have someone admire him like that.]

'When you said you were good with swords.' [Yuugi reminds him, trying to tone it down a little because he can sense some of Takuto's embarrassment and realizes it's his fault. Whoops. Time to move on!] 'Let's keep practicing, if you want?'

Morning Training

I insist there was no way to write this without it sounding so....

Sure, Tobi. Suuuuuuuure. ♥

it's actually canon for him to never make a mistake twice

Ahahah, that's gotta be nice.

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