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 Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:40 am
Redbud-Tree Follows Hounded actually. VEESHUS BABIES. Sailor Dubhe was glad that Laodica came to follow her from those fodawful hellbeasts. While people battle unholy abominations to natue and youma, Dubhe planned tio help Laodica hjelp herself -- through brute force training, and the blonde decided an empty, bright stadium parking lot was just fine for the necussary soace, ? She'd been attacked oncem fought before... Suddenly then, her cousin's insistance she learn to hunt had made sense and she feigned curiousity then interest in occasional hunting. and maybe it was funm but right now was foir pragmaticism and she turned to Laodica. "Everything I know means reframing your mind." She explained. "I only do it when I can't talk peacefully or run away or get hurt -- you have to think like a hunter, fiurst. And when you do, think of the companions as fellow hunters. Your enemies -- those attacking you directly -- are just prey. I'm all for letting them run, thpugh. As for an animal... Boar. Boars are meanand nasty little imsults to piggies." A wise nod. "My next comment isstance. Br dturdy and hard to bowl over, and they can't pin you so easily. And you can..." Dubhe showed her, taking a stance before swinging a fist, and.... It was so clearly a weak, no good punch.
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Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:55 am
"I... don't think I can manage a hunter mindset," Laodica said, frowning. She was grateful they were taking the time to do this, and she definitely wanted to try --- for her friend's sake, at least! --- but to think that way sounded hard and unnatural, and she genuinely wasn't sure she could manage it. "But I'll do my best?" She didn't want to disappoint Dubhe, since the order senshi was trying so hard to help her out... which was probably a little odd, given they were on opposite sides, and she was sure anyone from either side glimpsing them doing this would get mad about it, but... Dubhe was her friend, and that was all that mattered. So she was going to try, and she adjusted her stance as directed --- only to squeak as the weak punch struck her, squeezing her eyes closed like it was a much more intense blow than it actually was. "I --- I wasn't ready! Sorry!" Gosh, this was so hard!
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Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019 12:03 pm
"Bad people don't let you get ready. Order, chaos -- they'll cheat that way so you need to be ready." Dubhe explained. "It's ok if it's hard. I... I just snapped once. I can't force it well, but I'm trying to learn." She moved, bringing the lightest kick for Laodiuca, speaking. "Look for openings, look for ways to catch a foe. Use their balance to floor them, like this kick. Can you use it?" It was slow and deliberate, offering ample opening for sure.
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Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 10:02 am
"R-right," Laodica said, but privately she didn't quite think she'd ever be good at this. It felt too much like being mean, to her, and she didn't want to be mean to or hurt anyone even if they wanted to hurt her... but--- for Dubhe, she'd try, because Dubhe was her friend. Not that she had any idea how to try, so the best she could come up with to counter Dubhe's kick was to bring her arm around and try to knock her friend's leg away. "Um--- like this? Or is there something better? I never watched anything with much fighting in it, so I don't really know what you're supposed to do with this kind of thing..."
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Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 10:56 am
"Great sta--eep!" Dubhe toppled, but beamed, getting up and motioning. "You can also grab my leg and twist my balance off kilter. Usually, in a fight, you're aiming to stun or wound, anything to run away." Dubhe explained gently, then motioned. "Try to hit me, we can do some light moves and I'll show you what I know. Normally I wrestle with other people bigger and stronger, so I can avoid hurting you." She WISHED she could wrestle Zayne when powered though.
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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 2:55 pm
"I'm willing to try, but, uhm..." Laodica said hesitantly shifting her weight back and glancing around anxiously --- she almost felt like someone was watching them, even though she was sure that wasn't the case. There was just something embarrassing about this ,no matter how necessary it was. She didn't like fighting, never wanted to have to fight even if it was just to stun or run away, and so this felt like doing something... well, kind of wrong. (And technically it was, she supposed, but only because she was working with an order senshi and not someone allied with the Negaverse. But that had nothing to do with learning how to fight, which was what was making her uncomfortable.) "I've never even thrown a punch at anything? And I've heard you can hurt yourself or other people if you do it wrong, so--- can you show me that, first?"
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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 3:17 pm
Dubje sighed, noidding. "You can hurt yourself or others." She afmitted. "But... We might get hurt if we don't. How about this. We can take a break and build up to it. Hiope neither of us gets into a big fight. Maybe even plan to make this weekly? As for throwing a pounch, uhm..." Dubhe made a fist, thumb over her fingers, and punched her own palm before motioned. "Like that, only hitting other people."
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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 4:20 pm
"I'd--- like to see you weekly even if it's for that," Laodica admitted, suddenly finding herself quite unable to look her friend in the eye. "Not--- um, not that I think you're wrong or that it's a bad idea to learn because I don't and I do want to learn, but I'd like to see you weakly anyway..." She trailed off into an embarrassed squeak, then sighed and shook her head with a sheepish smile. Well, tripping over her own tongue or not, they were here for a reason, weren't they? She watched Dubhe make a fist --- the proper way, she supposed, because she had heard things about broken thumbs and broken thumbs sounded like the kind of trouble nobody wanted to deal with --- then mimicked the motion, punching at the air a few times. "Like this?" She asked, trying to make the motion short and sharp. If it was meant to get someone off of her and away, then she'd best do it right.
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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 4:38 pm
"Well... Then let's meet Tuesdays to train and Thursdays for fun." Dubhe suggested. "Then we can do fun things. Like, after this? I might go home for sleepo." The senshi hummed, and walked, thinking before holding a palm up to Laodica. "How about before we go, since those hellyouma chased us, you try punching my palm and we call it good for training?" Dubhe offered. "It's practicing a punchj."
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 11:16 am
"That sounds like a plan," Laodica agreed with a smile. Even if it meant having to work on fighting, then they could do other things after. It would be well worth it! (Though she didn't think sleep sounded like a 'fun' thing, to each their own.) "And--- um, alright!" There was no harm in trying, after all, and so after waiting for her friend to ready herself, she drew her arm back and gave her best attempt at a punch.
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 11:43 am
Dubhe let the blow connect, arm jerking back and a low 'ow' whispering from her, but she nodded approval after, shaking out her wrist as she nodded. "A good start. Next training, we'll do more punch practice, but if you're attacked, remember. Be a predator." YDubhe smiled then, and hugged Laodica tightly, beaming brightly to her. She was so pleased to see her try, and after a moment the senshi motioned, beaming. "So I'm thinking of seeing about FroYo while magicked, see if they'd serve me, but you don't need to come, erm..." Oh this felp awkward now. But FroYo meant mixins and toppings, so....
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 12:09 pm
"If you say that's what I need to do, I'll try" Laodica promised, because... really, what else could she say? "But I hope it won't come to that." She didn't want to have to fight anyone, but if people were going to try to hurt her over then then what choice did she have? Let them put her in the hospital or worse? The hug cut off her thoughts and forced a squeak from her, but she returned it quickly enough before smiling at the blonde senshi and shrugging. "I don't know it it would work, but I'd like to come with you and try it --- any time you want!" Maybe this would turn out to be a good thing this friendship. Especially if frozen yogurt was involved!
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