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Post by Yumi on Feb 24, 2020 16:25:55 GMT -4
"Hmm... HYAH!"
Throwing his arms forward as he held the weight of his boned blade in his hands, Arthur struck down against thin air as he used the empty training space provided to him to the best of his ability, cutting through the air with the surprisingly sharp edge of his quirk formed blade before pivoting sharply on his heel, pulling the blade in back towards himself with his elbows raised and the blade leveled with his eyeline before thrusting forward in the direction he'd once come from, before swirling down low in a sweeping motion that brought his blade in a whirlwhind motion about himself, a faint smirk on his lips before he rose back up to his full height, flicking the blade left and right to each side as if 'cleaning it' as one would in Japanese movie with a bloody blade.
"Ya know... as refined as they're supposed to be they really hold some force huh?"
The young hero in training looking over his bone formed blade, he questioned if he could learn more from the Japanese arts he was trying to learn from. One of the students who'd be coming from Japan, the top ranked in the school to be specific, was Tetsuko, and in the hopes of being able to beat her in some form of combat Arthur had been learning more Japanese formed styles of blade combat. It left him with a smile and a curious thought, considering how he could incorporate such motions into his own techniques... but he knew he'd ultimately have to rely more on his english style of swordplay. it was where his strengths lay but... never hurt to know what your opponents could do.
As he examined the bone blade in his hand a soft beeping sounded and he looked to his watch, sighing through his nose and turning off the alarm as he stepped over towards the pack he'd left in the bleachers of the training room, pulling out a cheese string from his lunch pack and sitting down to take a bite of the yellow goodness, eyes casually drifting about.
"Thought more of the other schools woulda been here... training for the big day..."
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Post by Rowan Sakamoto on Feb 27, 2020 5:16:51 GMT -4
She could not always count on her fellow U.A. students or her best friends to accompany her and train with her. No, Rowan was definitely afraid something would happen but she did not train all the time at U.A. to overcome her fear and that's why she would go and train by herself. Yepp, she could do it and she would want to learn and see how Valiant did use their training system. She looked a little lost when she was walking in the training facilities, she had not used it when she was training with Miku. She bit her lip, would they be okay with explosions within the school? Hm, only one way to find out and she finally found a room. She rounded around the bleachers and bumped into someone, not literally but she noticed a student she did not know. She brushed her long black hair behind her ear and gave a shy smile, "Sup?" She tried to be so casual, and asked herself to never do this again. Sup, really. What was she twelve?
She tilted her head a little, the boy looked familiar but in a sense, she only thought that she had seen his face around in the areas here and there and had heard some gossip. She had no idea who he was so to say, "I am Rowan, hope I didn't interrupt." Though he was eating something so probably not, "I just wanted to find a place to train." She was so glad that she could speak English, yay for being raised bilingual. Not that her grandmama wouldn't have killed her father if he did not allow English, her father never objected anyway. She looked around to see if the facility would hold against her explosions, she felt really self-conscious for doing so and her gym outfit was not really the nicest either, it felt like it screamed attention with the white, blue and red colours but she was still proud to be a U.A. student. To imagine that her grandmother had wanted her to come here and live with her, yet she complained now loudly enough that Valiant should have been closer to London and not in York. She thought maybe she should go but she wasn't sure, she felt like she should be more secure, she used to be so arrogant but the whole different setting and her not knowing what happened last year had definitely killed that self-confidence.
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Post by Yumi on Feb 27, 2020 5:26:09 GMT -4
Arthur was just pealing a layer off his cheese string in the futile hope of making his small snack last longer when the corner of his vision caught the approach of a face he vaguely recognized, his eyes widening a little as the cogs in his brain started to turn and the memory of her face became a little clearer, offering a warm smile as she approached and… aw. Was she all shy to see him again? Dunno what would make her turn to that but maybe she just wasn’t expecting to see him again. Whatever the case he continued to offer his own warm smile, lowering his snack back into his lunch pack for a moment. “Oh nothin’ much. Sup with you?~” He’d lightly tease as he parroted her question back to her, leaning back on one of the more raised seats behind him, propping himself up with his elbows.
When she re-introduced herself however his brow raised a bit with some mild surprise as she clearly didn’t recognize him in turn, tipping his head to the side. For a moment he’d just pause to see if she was messing with him in some way before scoffing a little, not in a derogatory way but just a little… surprised, that she hadn’t recognized him in turn. Boy did he really leave such a small impression?
“No er. You didn’t interrupt. I was just practicing some sword styles. Worried I might go up against that beastly samurai chick from your school.” He’d answer, rubbing his hands together a little before relaxing again, definitely a little eager to see Testsuko in action but not about to talk all about her when he was seeing Rowan right now. “Feel free to train here though. I mean I’d happily offer myself as a sparring partner if you need one. We all need to put our all into our training if we truly wanna display what our school’s are made of right?” He offered with a warm smile, gesturing to the field as a signal for her to use it as she pleased.
“If you er… don’t mind me asking…” He’d ask, pushing his lunch box aside and trying to put this as playfully as possible, he gestured idly between them as he asked. “You don’t have a twin do you? It’s just.. I’m sure we met at the UA festival last year? I mean I could be wrong but-”
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Post by Rowan Sakamoto on Feb 27, 2020 5:37:24 GMT -4
Up till now she had not had any issues with her memory loss and Chimera had been right, sometimes you just had to respect that and not worry about it. This guy was nice, he smiled at her nicely and she gave him a small smile back, but before she could answer how she was, she thought it might be important to introduce herself, which was why she did so and told the guy why she was here and she swore that he looked at her surprised and she felt her face turn red. Uh oh. She looked slightly uncomfortable as he looked at her and she wasn't sure what to do. He surely was surprised and she was hopefully not that stupid. Ehm what to do now?! She might have offended him which was why she tried to continue with the conversation and she brushed her hair again away and looked a little more into the space that he occupied, the room and all than straightly at him. She did not know his name, he didn't say it either, nothing could really spark a memory. Aaah shit.
She heard him hesitate and nodded and looked from the corner of her eyes back at him. Of course, Tetsuko. She nodded again, "A-ah yea, she is great." She mumbled, it was thanks also thanks to Tetsuko and a few others that she dared to be here. "That-that be nice." She also said, trying to be a little louder than her mumble about Tetsuko. Even if he looked at her surprised she was not sure if the offer was genuine and she had to maybe say something to calm his surprise. Maybe say how she was bad with faces or so, make a little joke but she could not come up with something and she looked around some more. She nodded when he said that they had to display their power or so to say and she tried to relax a little when he smiled at her again.
She turned bright red with his gesture and what he said next, "Ehm, I-I eh. No I don't have a twin, it's ehm." Come on she had already decided what to say it just didn't come out, "I just can't remember last year." But that still left her with the question who she had just offended by not knowing who he was. It gave her a horrible red face and this crushing feeling in the pit of her stomach, this was a hundred per cent embarrassing.
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Post by Yumi on Feb 27, 2020 5:51:24 GMT -4
Arthur took note of the fact she was blushing a little when he smiled at her and wondered if she was mistaking him for someone else to be blushing like that, scoffing lightly at the idea once again and easing his lunch pack to the side as he rose to his feet, dusting some loose bits of the cheese string off his hands and his clothes before stepping up into the training area. “Well I’m more than happy to help with the art of training. I mean like I said, we all gotta do our best, and if you guys make more impressive opponents than that means I look all the better when I beat you in the end right?~” He offered with a cheeky as hell smirk, showing a bit of his bravado and ego, but in a more playful than obnoxious way.
As he moved into the training area, he drew an arm across his chest and pressed his other palm against it’s forearm. Slowly drawing from his skin a long series of bones connected by some condensed cartilidge. Before long the rod he’d produced far exceeded the length of his arm, having made effectively a boa-staff out of bone. A typical weapon for some simple training efforts, didn’t do too much harm and helped him practice his hand eye coordination. His eyes drifted across to Rowan as she began to answer his not so subtle question as to whether she remembered him. His eyes widened a little in surprise as she made it clear she didn’t remember him. “I… see.” He began. He lowered his hand and three small daggers made of bone fell out of his wrist and he caught them in his fingers, just loaded himself up ready for training, pacing the space between them as he twirled his boa-bone-staff in his other hand.
“Soooo we talking… concussion based memory loss or… poor memory in general?” To keep Rowan on her toes despite the questions, Arthure chose now to strike with a slightly cocky smirk, flinging his arm across himself, the three small daggers of bone he’d made cutting the distance between himself and Rowan in a fan like spread. The moment they were launched his stance shifted as he held the staff ready across his chest in a defensive stance, ready for whatever Rowan had to offer back. He’d been making efforts to review last year’s tapes, so he was more than ready for her explosive capabilities.
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Post by Rowan Sakamoto on Mar 3, 2020 4:49:42 GMT -4
She agreed they all got to do their best but could it just be at home, without others from abroad who might not have forgiven her? No one at U.A. did weird to her, so it seems she had done fine with that, heck she was picked vice-president, she stepped in for Relena when she did not want to anymore, it was all fine but now... she was just scared. "Yes, we got to do our best." She mumbled but she did not like his answer, but tried to shake it off. It was just a joke, Rowan, calm down at least the guy was smiling at her and she smiled back, "Who knows." She tried to say, did they train too last year? She followed him with her eyes while making her way to the training area too and stared at him shortly. What was he doing? Rowan's eyes turned a little bit bigger, has she seen that before? She thought she did but the hateful dark of her memory did not actually give her an answer and it just remained like that and she took her marbles from her bag and managed to loop the little pouch to her training clothes before getting into the area. They talked first though and she looked bashful, sad and just embarrassed most likely. "The first." She tried to look up at him, memory loss was not something to be ashamed off, what was to be ashamed of is that she did not notice he started the practice.
She jumped back, right on time but that meant they were still very close together and she could see the cocky smirk on his face. She had to counter the other attack with an explosion which was not that well but she could dodge at least two of them, sort of, it was like a millimetre win, she believed one even cut pieces of her hair, the other really hit her and she might have just missed the third, where was it? "Oh I see, distracting the opponent, right?" But she smiled, was this his normal behaviour? Because she could deal with that. She heated up herself, but did not yet attack, she had to find an opening first.
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Post by Yumi on Mar 6, 2020 15:18:53 GMT -4
It was easy to see she wasn’t too pleased when he teased her about making a more impressive opponent, but in the end it was a joke so he didn’t feel too bad about it. Besides it wasn’t like she was ‘deeply hurt’ by the simple joke so why make a big deal out of it. He’d be respectful for a moment however, listening to her explain that her memory was some sort of injury… he thought to ask if it was caused by a training event or something but he needed to keep her on her toes for the next few seconds, throwing out his attack and preparing for retaliation.
It was a close call and he felt a little smug he’d managed to catch her so off guard, but he was prepared for retaliation all the same, twirling the boa-staff he’d generated in his off hand and holding it ready for whatever the girl had to throw back her way. “Something like that. Gotta see what you’re like when caught off guard ya know? Good hero knows to make sure they’re always on the top of their game…!~”
As she seemed to be holding off on an attack, he popped his neck to either side and begun charging towards her. His Boa staff was held in a back hand behind himself, but that was just half of the game so to speak. The bones of his spine expanding and stretching before popping harmlessly through his skin where the girl before him wouldn’t be able to see, and with his arm striking back out across his chest, a circular disk of cartiledge was tossed across the distance between them, captain America style. He didn’t feel like giving her too easy a time either, slamming down his boa staff and using it like a vaulting staff, leaping over her head and coming in to attack her from behind with a swing of his weapon.
“So! How’d it happen?~” He’d ask, wanting to keep the conversation going even as he struck for her. “Training accident? Intenrship fumble?~”
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Post by Rowan Sakamoto on Mar 24, 2020 5:51:51 GMT -4
She didn't want to call herself a hero yet. She came from very far this beginning of the year, that meant she only would have to catch up more if she wanted to become better at the end of this year and the next one. "I still have a lot to learn." She said to him, she wasn't a top student and she would never be and he clearly was. Arthur, yes, she will not forget that name this time and she would see, but she was holding back on her attack. Not yet, she had no opening or whatsoever so she would have to wait. She expected something again to be thrown at her, the shield was, however, bigger than she expected, but she took it, she would use bigger ammunition, her hands would burn from taking a circling disk, they would be scratched open by trying to take something out of the air but while he jumped over her, she could quickly make the rest of her motion, she touched it, the time was mentally ticking as she continued to throw it as a frisbee back at him, but it was not the idea to hit him, so while he made the motion to hit her with the staff (she jumped back but wasn't sure if that was out of his reach), the shield exploded.
"I got attacked by a villain." She looked at him, training accident or internship fumble would mean others would tell her what happened. "They found me in an alley and brought me to the hospital. I can't remember what happened before." All she knew was that Lady had remained to lay low after that until Nick fucking... whatever kidnapped her and that was that. She was sure Lady was out there but no one believed her. What to do with that was one big question, maybe she was slowly going insane, maybe she was not or well that's what she thought at that moment. That was until she bumped into Lady a week before going to England. She wasn't insane, she was really there but what did it matter?
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Post by Keiran on Apr 4, 2020 17:54:03 GMT -4
ST Yumi: 14 x 2 = 28xp (Going to Yumi [the character], so total: 1,281)
Rowan: 14 x 2 = 28xp (total: 424)
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