Morning Training Log

[heavenly_earth]

Characters: Everyone!
Location: Park/Training Ground
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 June 4th.

Official areas:

FAQ: In need of help or answers? Come here! Staffed by Neji and Excalibur?.
Breakfast: The incentive for coming to Morning Training for those who actually don't care about Death City. All food providers are given funds to buy/prepare the food and are then paid for the time they spent cooking/preparing. Provided by Saya and Fabiola
Cake Stand: A place for delicious treats; only the best cakes by Betty Crocker! Staffed by Condesce
Combat Instruction: One can learn and improve on fighting techniques! Staffed by Cloud, Sion, and Mulan
Sparring: A bunch of people are there. You show up and pick one to fight. Staffed by Fon (beginners), Fabiola (intermediate), Amaterasu and Cloud (advanced)
Weapon Transformation: New Weapon? Unsure on how to transform into a weapon (or how to transform back)? Go here! Staffed by Bakura, Aqua, and Gray
Soul Perception: Find out more about your soul, what they are, and what they potentially may do. Staffed by Shibusen
Partner Training: Learn how to work as a partner! Staffed by Azusa
Weapons Handling Training: Learn how to handle sharp things and not so sharp things! Staffed by Auron and Genesis
Shooting Range: Learn to shoot a gun, not at quail though, so expect your face to come out of this just fine. Staffed by Naoto, Giroro, Duo
Meister Ability Helpers: Learn about your Meister ability and how to use it. Staffed by Edgeworth
Finding a Partner: Unpartnered Weapons and Meisters meet each other here! Staffed by Liz Thompson
Medics: A place for medics to hang out, recruit and aid the injured - especially if they get shot in the face by accident. Staffed by Rosalia
Watch: This is where members of the watch meet up, chill, recruit and train! People interested in the watch welcome!
SEES: This is where SEES members hang out, and recruit!
Hug Brigade: A begrudgingly still opened squad dedicated to hugs of encouragement. Thank Lee for this! Staffed by Lee and the Hug Brigaders!


Feel free to make your own threads!


Open Character Threads:

Bakura
Naoto
Amaterasu
Psii
Fujino
Hamel
Re-L
Nanami
Sendo
Bumblebee
Matt
Saya
Condesce
Karkat
Hiro

Comments

[shiromadoushi]

[[Bakura approaches, giving a warm smile]]

Looking for some help?

[butterflyinfojk]

Yeah. I need to control my weapon form. You learn that here, right?

[shiromadoushi]

Mostly how to transform, but I can see if I can help with controlling it!

What's going wrong with it?

[butterflyinfojk]

Yeah, I sort of think transforming is included in contol.

Anyway, I can't seem to control my body, most of the time my feet keeps changing.

[ Right this second, they're normal though, which he's glad for. This is hard as it is. ]

[shiromadoushi]

[[Blink. Blink blink. That... was a new one.]] You mean like you're unconsciously trying to transform all the time? Or even partially transform?

[butterflyinfojk]

Well, it's when I, um. When I'm scared. [ More like terrified, which he's been most of the time since coming here, but he's not quite willing to admit that. ]

[shiromadoushi]

[[and a warm smile]] That's pretty normal! It's sort of like a new reflex that's been added in, fight, flight or transform. That's why people use the stairs trick when they get impatient. You trick yourself into getting scared for your life and you change on instinct.

[butterflyinfojk]

[ Oh, he doesn't need to trick himself into being scared. That comes to him pretty easily as it is. ]

So you have to be scared to transform? That doesn't sound very convenient, if you're the type that doesn't get scared. >small>[ He knows a couple of people that wouldn't work for. ] So how do I get it to stop, and only do it when I want it to?

[shiromadoushi]

You don't have to be, it's just a good short cut for someone's first time. [[a nod with that]]

Have you fully transformed yet? Or just partly when you're not trying? Because it could be that you just need to get practiced at transforming properly for the instinct to not go all the time.

[butterflyinfojk]

No, it's just partially, and I haven't really tried. It seems sort of spooky to me. But if you think it might stop acting up like it's been doing..

[shiromadoushi]

[[a nod]] I think it might! At the very least, you should be able to have better control over it when you're not scared of it happening, right?

[butterflyinfojk]

Yeah, I suppose so. So how am I supposed to do it? Because just being scared only does the partial thing for me. Am I supposed to imagine the change or something?

Sorry for the delay!

[shiromadoushi]

Sort of! Here, let's sit down, I'll try and walk you through how it works for me...

l-likewise. sorry!

[butterflyinfojk]

Oh, sure, okay. [ He sits down. ] So, how do you do it?

And then again... ^^;;

[shiromadoushi]

It's basically like a form of mediation. [[Bakura shifted to be sitting more comfortably]] First, close your eyes and try to relax, letting your mind go as blank as you can. There's that part of you, deep inside where you keep all your hopes and fears and everything else. Somewhere inside there, are the feelings of why you want to transform... it could be wanting to protect the people closest to you, wanting to be stronger, wanting to be a part of something, wanting to be able to fight... Whatever that reason is, try and reach out to it. Concentrate on it until it's all you can feel.

[[The hard part for Bakura was keeping himself from transforming again as he began to explain the process. It was such a reflex for him...]]

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[butterflyinfojk]

I can try that, I guess.

[ Meditation, um, okay, he had never been good at those kind of things. Nor was he very comfortable closing his eyes and sitting like that in public. Not to mention digging into his fears when there were so many of them, and crushed dreams and hopes.

But he tried, because he wanted control over these new..he could call them powers, couldn't he? And he had wanted to be stronger for a long time, to not be a wimp and always run away. He wanted to be able to protect his friends, but he had always been the weak one. He wanted to change that, had wanted to be at least a little bit helpful to the club other than with information.

He bit his lip where he sat. He didn't know how to concentrate on only that when he needed to. At night, when he was just sitting or lying there, thinking, it was easy, but then it was mixed with feelings of self-loathing, and to put that aside now was hard. ]

And then I realize I buggered my HTML up there, whoops.

[shiromadoushi]

There should be a warmth inside, when you find that feeling... a core of strength that might not have been there to start with.

Can you feel it...?

I do that all the time, so that's fine xD

[butterflyinfojk]

[ He took a couple of deep breaths to get himself to relax as well as he could. It worked a little better this time, though it was still difficult. He tried to push aside all the negative feelings that came with digging around in his heart.

There was something...that warmth that the guy was talking about. He tried to grasp it with his mind, but it kept slipping away from him. ]

I think I can..

Pardon the delays, summer is annoying @_@

[shiromadoushi]

Keep trying to grab hold of it. Reach into it and let it fill you so it's all you can feel and then let it transform you...

[butterflyinfojk]

[ He chewed on his lip as he kept trying. This was at least as hard as trying to manouver the Power Dizer, though it was exhausting in different ways.

Finally, he managed to catch hold of it, and he thought he would manage to transform, only to have it slip from him after a few seconds longer than before.

He dropped down to lie on his back on the ground, holding in a growl of frustration. Giving up felt so stupid, but it was so easy. ]

I can't do it.

[ Not yet. And right now, he was too frustrated with himself, and his concentration was slipping. ]

[shiromadoushi]

It can be pretty hard the first few tries, don't worry. Just give it time and I'm sure you'll get it.

Think it would help if I showed you how I transform??

[butterflyinfojk]

Right. Sure.

[ He just hoped he would get the hang of it soon. ]

Well, it could help, maybe.

[1/2]

[shiromadoushi]

[[a nod]] Hold out your hand, then! [[He smiled warmly before his form began to glow]]

[shiromadoushi]

[[Seconds later, a small white and rather battered looking ten sided die landed in JK's (hopefully) waiting hand, a small red thread curled around it, the edge waving back and forth as Bakura made sure not to initiate any resonance]]

[butterflyinfojk]

[ JK held out his hand, and when he found himself with a die in hand, he stared. Woa. WOA. ]

You're- How do you do that?!

[ He meant the part about getting so small. The transformation part he had already explained after all. But where did the body mass go? ]