Self Defense, Thursday, Period One

[suitably_heroic]

The class had been told to meet up in the Danger Shop. There, they found a simulation that covered both a gun range and a bunch of punching bags. There was no one else there.

After a couple of minutes, their teacher came swaggering in - he wore a dark Jedi tunic with a brown-and-white jacket slung over it casually. The combination didn't quite work, but somehow it worked for him. "So, you've all had some time to poke around," Atton said. "Hope you took advantage of the opportunity, because it's all the lead-in you're getting."

Beat.

"Well, except for this. Hi, I'm Atton Rand. I'm teaching this class because this island can get pretty dangerous and I'd be marginally sad if some of you died. If you got put in here by mistake when you actually want to be in the advanced fighting class, let the office know, because I'm by and large going to assume you people barely know how to take the wings off a fly."

He clapped his hands. "That being said, I want to know where you people are at. Yell your name, hit that punching bag as hard as you can, then run over to the range, blast the target, and, I don't know, tell me something about how you feel about beating things up. Now go, I don't have all day."

Yes, he did, but he was trying to get them motivated.

"... and if anyone wants to be my TA, come see me after class."

Comments

Sign In!

[suitably_heroic]

As you do.

Re: Sign In!

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four

Poke Around

[suitably_heroic]

Before the teacher gets there. Or just talk among yourselves.

Re: Poke Around

[myownface]

Sparkle was only marginally concerned that he was going to have to march into down and drag Atton to class, today. That was good, right? It was the first day of his class, Sparkle gave him more credit than that, and anyway, Atton generally had 'fashionably late' down to an art form.

So he was going to give the punching bags a bit of a suspicious side-eye while he waited, instead of worrying. Yeah.

Re: Poke Around

[not_a_moonie]

Alana kept her hands in her pockets as she explored the gun range. There were some nice weapons there; she hoped they'd get to play with them.

Listen to the Lecture

[suitably_heroic]

After Atton gets there. Not that it's a very long lecture...

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four was listening very attentively, watching how Atton took over a classroom. He was going to be the instructor for his first group of initiates in late spring and he wanted to be sure to learn as much as he could from all of his teachers.

Punching Bag

[suitably_heroic]

Yell your name! Then hit it as hard as you can. See if you can get it to move.

Re: Punching Bag

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four obligingly yelled "FOUR" in a voice designed to project, then gave the punching bag a solid whack.

His technique was excellent.

Re: Punching Bag

[gavegoodface]

Face's yell of "Face!" carried extremely well, as might have been expected given his training, his punch...well, at least he'd made a fist that wouldn't have resulted in breaking his own fingers?

He hadn't exactly been in many fights that weren't choreographed.

Re: Punching Bag

[myownface]

The amusement in Sparkle's "SPARKLE" could probably be attributed to the fact that he was right after a guy named Four and a guy named Face, and maybe he was wondering just how many more people had weird word-names in this class, okay? Either way, it carried well, right from the diaphragm... and was probably going to be his most impressive display today.

Well, okay, he did a fairly decent job of thumping the punching bag, too. There wasn't much in the way of style to it, but Sparkle had a long history of punching things.

Re: Punching Bag

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

Travis really hoped he didn't break a finger.

He took a whack at the bag, feeling his knuckles sting. He managed to shout, "Travis!" at the very last minute but it happened. Then, he shook his hand out.

All right, he had some work to do.

Re: Punching Bag

[not_a_moonie]

"ALANA!"

It didn't make for a very satisfying battle cry, thanks to all the soft A's. Alana scrunched her nose and walloped the hell out of the punching bag anyhow. At least the training from her previous fighting classes helped: For somebody her size, she had pretty good upper-body strength.

Re: Punching Bag

[beautifulsenshi.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Minako was bouncing on her toes. "MINAKO!!!" she yelled/cheered, and gave the bag a good, solid punch...but had to shake her hand out afterwards, making a face.

Re: Punching Bag

[bearmaidenfair]

"VIDER!" Vider shouted as she punched the bag.

She had pretty decent form, and she knew how to not break her fingers (although, granted, it wasn't like she would always care about that anyway).

Shooting Range

[suitably_heroic]

Pick up a blaster and hit those human silhouette-shaped targets at the back. Then tell Atton something about how you feel about beating things up.

Sparkle might get a target in a silhouetty robe because Atton cares, man.

Re: Shooting Range

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four picked up the blaster and missed center mass on the first try--he wasn't that used to how a blaster felt in his hands--but bullseyed the next few shots.

"I don't beat people up for fun or anything, but if you're going to need to do this, you better know how to do it so once they go down, they stay down."

Re: Shooting Range

[gavegoodface]

He was hardly a sniper, but Face was a much better at shooting than punching, not that that was difficult. His shots clustered neatly around around the target's heart.

"I'm better at talking my way out of things than fighting my way out," he said after.

Re: Shooting Range

[myownface]

"Aww," Sparkle cackled. "You're the best, man."

Sorry, Skywalker. Sparkle was firing off a few shots at you in effigy, here. And he wasn't completely hopeless, thanks to Atton himself teaching him how to use a blaster back when sharks were raining from the sky. His first shot got the target in the shoulder, and then he adjusted his aim from there.

"I don't like these things," he noted, holding up the blaster for a moment before setting it down. "But knowing how to handle one seems important. And, I don't know. I don't really love fighting, either, but you can't run away from everything."

Re: Shooting Range

[theheadkid.livejournal.com]

Oh swell, a gun. Travis picked it up and tried not to let his hands shake while he did. He...was horrible with the blaster, barely hitting the edges of the silhouette.

"I'm better at avoiding beating things up then I am at confronting something with my fists," he admitted. "My skills in fighting are probably best in video game worlds."

Re: Shooting Range

[not_a_moonie]

Alana grabbed the blaster, handled it a bit to test how its weight felt in her hands, and then shot at the target's head. She hit about where the nose would have been. It wasn't perfect aim, but it was good enough to do some serious damage. Her next few shots were more or less the same -- some a bit closer to the forehead, and one where her hand jerked at the last second and she would have hit an ear.

"I agree with Four," she said. "I'm not going to pick a fight just because I don't like somebody's hair or whatever, but if I have to do it, I want to come out on top."

Re: Shooting Range

[beautifulsenshi.livejournal.com]

This? Minako could do this! She was ACES at shooting games at the arcade! Plus, the whole 'energy beams from her fingers' thing as Venus.

Her first shot went a little wild, to hit in the shoulder, due to the weight of the blaster and recoil she wasn't expecting, but the rest of Minako's shots were nicely clustered towards the center.

"I don't like fighting," she said bluntly. "But I'm not afraid to stand up for what I believe in, and sometimes that means fighting back physically."

"Also, I'm a girl from a big metropolitan city." Minako shrugged. "There's going to be creepers and perverts, and sometimes you just have to judo-flip a guy into a wall."

Re: Shooting Range

[bearmaidenfair]

Guns of any description were not so much a thing in Vider's world, but she was going late enough that she'd observed the others and had a pretty good idea of how this thing worked. That did not mean she made any of her shots, though. "It's my future career, so I'm pretty ragging okay with it."

Now she was vaguely wondering how someone who wasn't okay with beating things up would get by in New Asgardian society. Probably really badly.

Talk to the Teacher

[suitably_heroic]

He's got a giant cup of coffee and a piece of pie. No, you're not getting any.

OOC

[suitably_heroic]

I wish the animation in KotOR 2 was good enough to make for reaction gifs, but alas.