013 | Down To Business

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Training
When: Morning June 16
Where: Bishamon's temple
Summary: Training sessions for everyone to learn more about their abilities and jobs!



Many people have been wanting to know more about their abilities and what they are required to do here in the Far Shore. So, in conjunction with Bishamonten, the Heavens have seen fit to offer an open training session for everyone to participate in. Here you will be able to learn anything and everything about what you should be able to do and what is expected of you in your new positions.

Bishamon's temple is sweeping and gorgeous, having previously been home to hundreds of shinki. She has graciously offered to hold this training session and will be available to help anyone who needs it.



Equipment

Various kinds of mannequins and dummies have been provided for practice, as well as targets that are either stationary or move, depending on your will. Punching bags, jumping blocks, and a large pool area have also been provided for your use, so that you can find a tool for pretty much anything that you might need to practice. Plenty of practice weapons of various weights, sizes, and shapes are also available upon request from any of the many white-clad shinki that are also attending today.

God Training

Bishamon herself will be the foremost source of information regarding being a god and what is expected of you. It is also encouraged that gods group up together to practice what they've learned and discuss their ideologies. Random groupings can be provided by the mods or you may come up with your own groupings together.

Shinki Training

Various shinki are available to help with shinki training, including Kazuma and all of Bishamon's shinki. Additionally, the white-clad shinki will be more than happy to train you on using the borderline and some of the basics of what is expected of a shinki. It is also encouraged that shinki group up together to practice what they've learned and discuss their ideologies. Random groupings can be provided by the mods or you may come up with your own groupings together.

Refreshments

There is a refreshments table provided. It is covered with light snacks and various kinds of hydrating drinks. There is a little sitting area set up for people to relax in after they have finished their training or if they're even just taking a quick break to cool down. The Heavens want you to stay in good condition!

In Summary:

• Use the state of the art equipment
• Learn about your job
• Form groups to practice
• Don't get dehydrated
• Spectate if you want
• Have fun~

Comments

[junkyarddog]

It means you sucked more than I did when you were alive because I lived longer, byon! [Ken, that isn't even remotely how it works, but nice effort.]

[kokuyoyo]

It looks like you barely lived longer considering the time difference between my death and yours... So is that really anything to be proud of....

[junkyarddog]

How's it make any more sense for you to get special treatment 'cause you died first, shitty four-eyes? [And Ken sticks out his tongue at him, an action which admittedly requires little provocation. Sometimes Ken does that for no reason whatsoever, in fact.] How's that prove you're the best one, byon?

[Clearly Ken sees Chikusa's being Axel's exemplar as some kind of challenge. Or competition.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Up until this point, if asked about competing for his god’s attention, Chikusa would probably look incredibly weary at the very idea. That sounds like an awful lot of work, after al. However, now that it’s happening…. Suddenly, he has absolutely zero desire to lose, and his horrendous slouch actually straightens itself out a little at the challenge in Ken’s voice.]

I wasn’t the one who got hit in the face with a yoyo….

[junkyarddog]

I'm not the one who is a yoyo, byon! [Ken says this like he's won the debate, even though for all he knows, he turns into something even more ludicrous.

(He does, although on a different metric of ludicrous.)]

[kokuyoyo]

[And for this, there's the barest of positioning of his head that still, for Ken, will make it clear he's looking down on him. This, he has a comeback for.]

Axel-sama has already found reason to use him twice, and I was perfectly useful both times.

[And Axel's opinion is the one that matters.]

[junkyarddog]

I only just got here, byon! I'll be useful too, just watch! [Ken almost visibly puffs up.]

[kokuyoyo]

You better be. Axel-sama deserves good tools.

[And, if nothing else, he'll accept Ken's uses there.]</msma

[junkyarddog]

Pssht, you're enough of a tool for the both of us, byon.

[Ken mutters this under his breath, but not so quietly that Chikusa can't hear it. It's actually a passable insult, at least in terms of delivery...or it would be, probably, if being a tool for Axel wasn't a good thing in both their estimations. While Ken's meaning is clear enough, context has it falling a bit flat despite his best efforts.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Yeah... Not quite the right time. Chikusa quirks up an eyebrow.]

Does that mean you're not needed, then?

[WHAT NOW, KEN]

[junkyarddog]

[Ken's mouth opens, then closes. Then he bristles like a porcupine to the point where it's a wonder he's not channeling one. That one hit a button.]

Shut up! If I'm not needed, then why'm I Axel-sama's shinki, huh?! Maybe you just weren't enough, byon!

[That one's likely to hit a button, too.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Chikusa doesn’t bristle, but he does twitch into tenseness, eyes narrowing. There can’t be any doubt that his button’s been pressed as well.]

I’m more than you.

[....Right? Right Axel? Poor Axel- Chikua’s insecurities are going to be biting at him again. And they were doing so well, too.]

[junkyarddog]

[Ken counters this with a punch, because of course he does. And then he pounces on Chikusa immediately afterwards, because obviously the best way for a meeting of new shinki partners to go is to fall into snarling and scuffling.]

[kokuyoyo]

[So. That happened.]

[Chikusa could dodge the punch, but honestly his scuffle with Hibari earlier has tired him out, so instead he just takes it, hitting the ground and immediately curling up to minimize any further damage as Ken leaps onto him. While his body shakes from the impact, there’s no other reaction to being attacked.]

[....Well, there’s an annoyed sigh but that’s it.]

So troublesome...

[junkyarddog]

[The lack of reaction both confuses and disappoints Ken, enough so that after having borne Chikusa to the ground, he mostly just sits there on him, still huffy and bristling but not actually attacking further. It's more than just a generalized animalistic distaste for mauling something that's not even trying to offer resistance; it's that he's intelligent enough to realize that if Chikusa doesn't care that Ken's beating him up, then what the hell is Ken accomplishing by doing so?

Although some would likely disbelieve it, Ken is a number of steps up from a dumb animal.]

Take it back, byon. [He scowls down at Chikusa. But the violent aggression's been bled out of him surprisingly fast.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Good- this worked better than it did with Hibari. With Ken not attacking him, Chikusa carefully peers out at him before letting his arms fall away from his face. As long as his face doesn't get too damaged, then he really couldn't care much about what happens to most of his body...]

[Maybe it's for that reason that he's fine with setting his jaw stubbornly.]

No. It's true.

[junkyarddog]

No it's not! [And Ken promptly socks Chikusa in the chest. Okay, so he's only attacking when provoked here.] You're not better than me, byon! Axel-sama needs me too!

[And that's where the anger - or terror, thinly veiled as anger - is coming from. If Chikusa is better than Ken, then Ken is superfluous, unimportant. Axel won't need him. Axel won't care about him. If Ken is bad or screws up, Axel won't have any reason to keep someone meaningless, not when he has someone better.]

[kokuyoyo]

[An 'oof' of air is punched out of him, but no register of pain still even though he's no longer quite curled up. What's more registering is... ]

[People and their emotions have always been a little tricky, at least to him. They're too intense, complex, something he doesn't think he's ever experienced or ever will. When he finds those who make sense to him even in a simple way, like Sanada's loyalty to his own new god... He finds himself turning towards them automatically for even a little bit of relief or something that he can understand.]

[Ken's anger, a smokescreen to his true emotions, is something Chikusa can't entirely understand, but.... Something about his words, instead, clicks. Needing to be needed...]

[His tongue flicks out, wetting his lips, and he doesn't look away from Ken.]

...He only needs good shinki. So you need to be good.

[junkyarddog]

I can be good, just watch. [Ken huffs.]

[kokuyoyo]

Then you have to listen to me. Understand?

[junkyarddog]

I'm not gonna listen to you if you're saying stupid stuff, byon. [Ken glares at Chikusa.] I'll do whatever Axel-sama needs, but you don't get to order me around and act like you're better.

[An idea sparks itself in his brain.] Helping me is helping Axel-sama, right? 'Cause it's better if Axel-sama has the best shinki, byon. So if you're being a jerk, you're not helping me, which means you're not helping Axel-sama, and then I don't have to listen to you. [There's an almost triumphant look on his face at having worked that one out, and for Ken that is pretty high-level reasoning.]

[kokuyoyo]

[...That's really good reasoning, and Chikusa doesn't like that this new shinki can get that one up on him, causing his eyes to narrow minutely. At the same time, it's a fact, and he's not some idiot who argues against those.]

[Ugh. Outwitted by a dog. It's not a nice feeling.]

So if I'm not a jerk... Then you'll listen to me?

[junkyarddog]

[Ken considers this for a moment.] If it helps Axel-sama, I guess. [He doesn't intend on letting Chikusa boss him around even politely, unless it's expressly for Axel-sama.

He huffs and prods Chikusa's chest with a finger.] So are you saying you actually know how not to be a jerk, dumbass four-eyes?

[kokuyoyo]

[With no particular effort behind it, he tries to bat Ken's finger away.]

Should you really be calling me the dumbass when you're the one who doesn't know as much about being a shinki...?

[junkyarddog]

I know you being a jerk and treating me like I'm stupid instead of teaching me isn't helping Axel-sama, so I guess I know more about being a good shinki than you do, you shit kappa. [Ken sticks his tongue out at Chikusa, smirking.]