fandomhigh | Defending Yourself [Monday, Period 1]

"Welcome back. Hope you all had a relaxing weekend." But it was totally class-time now, and the Danger Shop was configured to look like an incredibly stereotypical high school gym. With mats spread out over most of the floor.

"For those of you who have taken other classes with me in the past, you'll know that I'm a big proponent of learning about both sides of any subject, so that's the goal for today. You can learn a lot about defending yourself by learning something about attacking people. Hopefully you'll get some insight into the thought processes of aggression, and that, in turn, will give you some tools when you're trying to defend yourself from that aggression."

"So today is going to be spent almost entirely on an activity. Everyone's going to find a partner. One of you is going to be the aggressor, and the other is going to be the defender. The aggressor's goal is to somehow knock the defender down, while the defender is going to try to avoid that fate for five minutes. After those five minutes, I'll call time and everyone will find a new partner. Or, if you're really attached to yours, you can have the same partner, but switch roles. By the end of class I want each of you to have tried both sides at least once."

"After a few rotations, when there are about fifteen minutes left in class, I'll stop everything and we'll discuss what, if anything, you learned."

With that Max pulled out a coach's whistle that looked like it sounded really annoying. And then he blew it loudly, proving that it sounded worse than it looked. "Now get to it!"

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With an annoying whistle!

William Murdoch

Peter Wiggin

Cassidy

Karla

Mercy Thompson

Freddie Benson

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Not that there's much of one

Karla was just glad for the opportunity to work some of the additional energy off. Though all of her ideas for knocking people down led to several other ideas, none of which were appropriate for class.

Oops.

Partner up! Feel free to start multiple threads here if you want to try both sides of the thing.

Cassidy was looking around for a partner.

Mercy nodded at Cassidy. "Partners?"

Cassidy beamed. "Hi Mercy. And sure."

"So... defending or attacking first?" Mercy asked.

[And I must flee for a few hours, sorry!]

"Defending."

[[That's fine! I'll be going home to deal with the migraine. SP is always fine. :D]]

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Freddie stood there, entirely worried someone was totally going to kick his ass in this activity.

"Think I can beat you up?" Quinn asked. "Unless you want to do it the other way around, but you so don't seem like the type who would hit a girl."

Which was, in truth, part of why she approached Freddie. He seemed the soft-underbelly type.

"It's very possible?" Freddie said, being honest. Though he did relax a little. It wasn't that he underestimated Quinn, he was no stranger to how much violence girls were capable of. More that he figured this way it was less likely he'd get hit in the face.

He also had the softest of underbellies. At least outside of his ability to fence.

"And you're probably right about the other way around."

"It's okay if you bump me a little trying to keep me from knocking you down," Quinn said, with supreme confidence. "Just not the face, okay?"

She circled Freddie, trying to see what her opening was.

"Oh, yeah, no touching the face," Freddie said, shaking out his arms. "I'd totally appreciate that, like, same consideration if that's cool."

He paused to stretch his neck with his arms behind his head... pretty much leaving himself completely open.