[Morning Training, open to all!]

[awokentospring]

Characters: Everyone!
Location: Training Ground, Shibusen
Rating: PG-13 for violence of the training sort
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 August 5th.
Extra note: The clowns have not yet attacked, but the hummingbird keychains have glowing eyes!

Official areas:

FAQ: In need of help or answers? Come here! Staffed by Neji.
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 a catering service for now
Combat Instruction: One can learn and improve on fighting techniques! Staffed by Cloud and Sion
Sparring: A bunch of people are there. You show up and pick one to fight. Staffed by Zelgius (beginners), Morgan (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 Aqua
Soul Perception: Find out more about your soul, what they are, and what they potentially may do. Staffed by Death the Kid
Partner Training: Learn how to work as a partner! Staffed by Death the Kid
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, and Duo Maxwell
Meister Ability Helpers: Learn about your Meister ability and how to use it. Staffed by Akiha
Finding a Partner: Unpartnered Weapons and Meisters meet each other here! Staffed by no one :(
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 his brigadiers!

And of course, as always, feel free to make your own threads!

Open Character threads (Bear with me as I try to catch them all ;;):



((Also, apologies for being late. I screwed up. 8|;; )

Comments

[consider8]

Yes... in some ways... it is not unlike what you experienced all those sweeps ago.

[Her hand reaches cautiously, plaintively to his.]

You've seen this before. You know what it was like, then. You know what it's like now.

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[Psii doesn't take AA's hand, but shifts fingers so that she can take his, if she wants.]

Don't... remember.

[Isn't a lie, as such, but is also far from truth. Memories are faint and fitful, sectors corrupted. Fog of pain and loss, and fighting system, fighting to keep self, still defiant, but with every day perigee sweep, every taunt from her, felt how much easier would be to give in. Wouldn't feel pain anymore, or guilt of every planet destroyed, wouldn't have to fight.

Wouldn't be friend SS had known, and that was what Psii clung to. That's gone now.]

Don't want to.

[consider8]

Ah... [Aranea lowered her head. Of course she knew that this is the sort of thing that he needed to talk about, but also something that he needed to take at his own pace. Forcing it would be unproductive to any natural healing. Were she able to use her own powers she might have been able to ail his wounded soul... perhaps... but time was on their side. It was not a necessity. Though since she no long her her ability...]

[Time. He needed time.]

I understand. Losing somebody you care about is a dreadful thing.

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Am sorry. Is different now. Should be better equipped to process loss, but.

[But is evident he isn't.]

Hate to think of them going back to their fates.

[consider8]

I don't think we're ever used to loss. When two trees are too close to each other their bark bend to the other. The branches grow in the presence of the other. Their lives, as far as trees are concerned, is forever changed by it's presence. If one of the pair were to die, the other may continue on. But it's shape will be forever altered by the presence of it's mate.

[She looks down and considers something.]

Psii, do you want to hear the rest of their story?

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Rest of story?

[Confusion is evident on his face.]

Saw what happened to SS. Never knew truth about others. Am not sure--

[If anyone can tell it in a way that will make seem less awful, Aranea can. Psii likes her analogy--makes him feel as if family is still with him, in ways they shaped him.]

Yes. Would like to know.

[consider8]

The Dolo...

[No, now is not the time to use that. After taking a look around, she looks at Psi with intense eyes and a hushed tone.]

Porrim was sold to a slave and was owned and seduced by a great and powerful pirate. This lasted for a long time until she was ultimately slain by a jealous boyfriend that wanted the pirate in all of his quadrants.

But that's not the story I wanted to share.

After the Sign... after Kankri was killed, the Expatriate Darkleer was assigned the task to kill Meulin. Yet in that moment when she was afraid and lost, the Exapatriate's steel heart failed. Meulin took to the fields, bearing with her Kankri's righteous leggings and the teachings that Kankri spread. And she hid. And waited. And watched. In time the bear walls of her cave became full. The words that were spoken throughout the many sweeps. The trolls that was met by everyone. In time the tales of the Signless became more than a story. It became a heartbeat. As those that knew the kindness and justice of a less constricting hemospectrum spread, more trolls began to enter the cave. They talked. They learned. And the teachings spread. Though hushed and kept to the dark quiet spaces away from the ears of her Condescension and followers, the tales of The Sufferer became known to those as a tale of one who stood defiant to the anger and hate of a world that could not allow for those good things to grow. Of a kind heart whose only weapon was words and love.

In time another revolution would rise. One far greater than the one than even you had seen. If the followers of The Signless can be seen as a palmful of water that stood against the oppressive rule of her Condescension, then this next one came as a great and mighty sea of low and highbloods that challenged the way things are so that the children may no longer fear being bound to their caste and fate.

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Have almost never used their names.

[He doesn't mind Aranea doing it at all; just feels strange to hear.

She had said many things about family's fates, some contradictory, all horrible. All calculated to demoralize. Most had worked. In a way, hearing truth at last is relief. Can't possibly be worse than everything had imagined.

Is bad enough, though, to think of Rosa enslaved, of Dii living out all her sweeps alone. Psii tells self is irrational to be saddened by it now. Can't change what had already happened by time they were brought to Death City. Still, wishes had been able to offer them comfort.

He knows nothing of Dii's escape, and feels heaviness of blood pusher lighten somewhat to hear it. Edges of galaxy hadn't been beyond reach of his sensors, but whispers in secret on Alternia had. Whispers that grew to a roar even she had to acknowledge. It's enough to make him half-smile.]

Did you have chance to tell SS? Would wish for him to know message wasn't forgotten.

[consider8]

[At that Aranea frowned.]

No. He... had his own tasks that he wanted to address. And in between everything between him and The Disciple I just never had the time.

And he never asked.

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He wouldn't have. Blamed himself, for everything. Tried to tell him many times wasn't his fault. That could only speak for self, but would have made same choices, if had to do it again.

[consider8]

Yes. In part it is because fundamentally that is who you all are. And without your noble efforts and sacrifices no other trolls would have such a powerful example of what troll life can truly become. The symbol of The Signless, who was later known as The Sufferer, became a beacon for trolls of the true oppression that gripped them. For what greater agony could be had that their exemplar had not experienced as well? And the banding together of many like-minded people regardless of past or caste became something new. Something Alternia had never seen up until then.

[And so Aranea reached for her necklace. You know, the one that she had always worn since the day she was here? Perhaps Psii never gave it notice but the tangible proof of their importance -- of Psiioniic and Disciple and Dolorosa and the Signless. The proof of meaning hanging from her neck this whole time.]

He became an exemplar. A living embodiment of hope and possibility.

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What is--

[Oh. Manacles. Psii isn't prepared for how sight hits him, and pulls hand back--retreats entirely, in fact, though not far. Just enough to get some distance.

Doesn't like that being symbol that has come to belong to SS.]

He's--

[Makes himself use correct tense. Denial will only make this harder in long run.] He was so much more than that.

[consider8]

[Aranea frowned a little, and retreated the necklace away from view. Wow. That didn't go how she thought it would.]

Yeah, you're right.

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Sorry. Am glad trolls remember. And do appreciate you telling. Is just. Was there.

[Had known what own fate would be by then, but hadn't cared. Can remember screaming self hoarse, and wetness on face, last tears he shed. Another memory wishes were deleted.

And yet, he doesn't. Burning out those memory sectors would be disservice to SS.]

And haven't thought of it in sweeps. Still hurts.

[consider8]

...I'm sorry. I shouldn't have brought it up.

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No, don't be. Just. Struck as strange way to show support.

Can see injustice done to SS is strong incentive to change way things work. To make world where that wouldn't happen. Am all right now.

[consider8]

I wanted you to know that your efforts had meaning, but in the end it seemed to have done you more harm than good. I'm sorry, Mitu--

...ah, Psiioniic.

[Thoroughly apologetic.]

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Don't mind if you use name. [He even gives small, reassuring smile.]

Have never forgotten what you said when first arrived. About everything that changed because of... us.

[consider8]

--has changed. Whenever you are in doubt, you only need to look at the few Alternians that were here to see it. They had a chance to do something great because of you. Their very existence is owed to the changes everyone made.

And this symbol. [She touches where her necklace is resting.] Is a continuous reminder that there are things worth... suffering for.

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[Psii manages to suppress wince this time. SS would say, he's sure, doesn't matter what name he became known by, as long as vision for better Alternia survived.]

Would remind you had very little part in actually changing world, if weren't sure you would contradict. Now feel sure Dii had-- [A little smile.] --lion's share of work after SS... was gone.

[consider8]

Oh, now you're just being modest.

[Still, Aranea couldn't help but laugh a little.] Hehehe...

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Wasn't active participant in things that happened because of self. Certainly never wanted her interest, or what she thought was affection. Effect had on story you told was simply because of being in particular place.