fandomhigh | Let's Play Some Sports!; Thursday, First Period [04/03].

"Last week," Gladio began at the start of class, once again in the danger shop in some training space, although it was a little different than last week's, "we worked on fighting sports that focused on hand-to-hand combat and this week," he walked over to a stand filled with a bunch of fencing foils to pull one out, "we learn how to fight with..."

He paused, looked at the fencing foil, then smirked.

"Toothpicks, apparently."

Look, those of you who had seen his sword before would understand why he had a little bit of trouble actually classifying this little dinky thing as such. But he did grin a little at Jon, too ~~assuming he was there~~, since he knew fencing had come up at some point.

"We're going to learn about fencing today, and we're going to learn a few of the teminology, techniques, and basics together, and then, of course, you've got the option to sort of practice with each other, myself, of just go at a practice dummy to work on those things if that makes you more comfortable. So let's take a moment to stretch, and then gear up, and we'll get started."

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En garde!

Eleanor Zarrin

Nell Ingram

Jonathan Sims

While Gladio is pretty seasoned in a lot of different forms of swordfighting and therefor clearly knows his stuff, there is the occasional huff of amusement as he explains and demonstrates just because a fencing foil really does seem comically tiny to him.

And honestly? It kind of looks that way in his hand, too, let's be real here.

Jon gave him a look right back. Look, not everybody could wield a bloody telephone pole!

Grab a foil, grab a partner, or a practice dummy, and get in some fencing of your own!

Jon would do his best. Which was much better than it had been before he'd met Gladio!

He was never winning any competitions.

Who may actually be tempted to use the foil to try and get a little food still stuck between his teeth from breakfast.

Do not.

Nell would have his head.

Speaking of Nell, she was here and grinning. "Sooo much lighter than the swords you have me practice with!"

"Because I like swords that actually do something," Gladio snorted, grinning back. "Although I guess if you just wanted to go around poking your enemy until they die of annoyance, these are pretty good!"

"If you're good enough, a strike to the heart would be pretty effective," Nell pointed out with a smile. "But yes, yours are far more intimidating."

Sorry for the lateness! The brain, she is such a fickle thing these days.....

Let's Play Some Sports!; Thursday, First Period [04/03].

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