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[redmare]

 Who: Chinatsu and you!
Where: Anywhere and everywhere! 
When: Last week of September to..First week of October 
What: Catchall for minor activities such as training, daily shenanigans, outings, what have you.

A. Training
Chinatsu's trying to learn to fight, whether it be hand-to-hand or with weapons. She'll approach anyone she can for a spar, or at least people she knows. She'll either train at Nekhbet's temple, or a slightly secluded but open space at the near shore.

B. Let's hang
She may be learning to fight ayakashi, but she's still a teenager. Hang out with her in the far shore, go shopping, beat up some guys bothering other girls (wait, that's still fighting), go to the arcade or eat some fast food...anything under the sun! 

She's also down to spending time in the near shore, maybe show her that there's fun stuff to do in heaven.

C. Wildcard
Open to anything and everything! Make up your own scenario and I'll play along.

Comments

Closed to Shun

[redmare]

[Chinatsu tied her hair into a ponytail as she followed Shun outside.]

Didn't we work out fine before?

[How much can you practice being a fan? Though if he wanted to practice, Chinatsu wasn't going to say no. She did want to strengthen her bond with him after all.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[If they're doing something like this, Shun would prefer a reasonably open space even if it also means being clearly visible to passerby, so he starts heading around the base of the hill and past the garden walls towards the back of it.]

We needed to work together that time. Necessity can do a lot, but we need to be sure we'll be able to do it when we're not under that much pressure as well.

[The mutual need to protect themselves and each other had been an "agreement" of sorts in their aims, but that's not always going to be the circumstances they fight in.]

[redmare]

.....Alright, alright.

[All he does is call her and bam, right? Not that she could really say. She didn't get much experience with her previous god. What she did with Shun back then was the most she'd done as a shinki yet.]

Let's do this then.

[revolutionfalcon]

[Once they come out to the other side of the hill, Shun turns towards her. That last statement is enough for him to assume she's ready for the change, so he simply goes ahead and does it this time around.]

Come, Ouki. [Shun is very used to calling shinki into form after almost six months of being here, and there's a wilful edge to the tone to accentuate the idea of the call to battle. It's not quite dramatic, but it's more than just throwing the name out there.

He positions his hands as he did when he was learning to use tessen at the recent training meet, prepared for Chinatsu's form to appear in them.]

[redmare]

[At the call she transforms in his hands, turning into the pair of tessen fans.]

So? Now what?

[Addmitedly, it still felt a little strange being in this form, especially when they weren't in danger.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun tests the grip a little to see if it feels similar to what he was training with the other day - it does, so it seems like he should progress from there.]

I'm going to try some more controlled motions first. It looked like the fire came out last time when we moved, so knowing how much movement it takes could help us fight better.

[The first movement he makes is fairly straightforward - he half-spins on the spot, holding one fan out and making a motion to snap it open as he sweeps it in a wide arc.]

[redmare]

[The fan snapped open, but nothing came out. Not even a spark.]

...Did you not move enough?

[revolutionfalcon]

Maybe. Were you focusing on bringing out the power as well? [It's something both of them need to play a part in, so Shun figures he should get the obvious potential reason for the failure out of the way.]

[redmare]

I’m pretty sure I was...try again.

[Chinatsu tries to focus more this time.]

[revolutionfalcon]

Alright. Stay alert.

[This time, Shun focuses himself and goes for something a bit more certain - a forward flip that slashes both the fans down in front of him, similar to the first attack he made on the ayakashi they were fighting that first time.]

[redmare]

Tsk. I am..

[Her eyes shut close and she tries to bring out as much as she can—but she might have put in too much as large flames explode from the tips of the blades, some blowing in their direction.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[That is pretty much exactly the concern that stopped Shun from doing this inside the garden. He continues his motion to avoid the flames blowing back at them, and closes the fans to limit their movement and lessen the risk they'll spawn more.]

It's better than nothing, but try not to set us on fire.

[redmare]

That's not what I was trying to do!

[She's not sure what happened. But even when she tried to hold back, she couldn't.]

You probably moved too much this time!

[revolutionfalcon]

That was basically the same as one of the moves we used against that ayakashi. And we didn't burn it up on the first strike, in case you didn't notice.

[Shun's not unwilling to take the criticism if he actually thinks it's his fault, but in this case, it doesn't seem all that likely.] If we're supposed to be working together, then you work out what the problem was together instead of blaming the other person straight away.

[redmare]

I'm doing the same thing we did last time. If it's not me it can only be you.

[revolutionfalcon]

And I could say the same thing back to you, because that's what I was doing as well. See how that does nothing for either of us? [His tone is very blunt; Shun somewhat understands the urge to blame someone else for it, but it's not typically something he does. It gets nothing done to blame someone else if that's not actually the case, rather than consider whether you might have caused it or some combined factor.]

[redmare]

[She huffs out a sigh.]

Alright, fine. Then tell me what you want then.

[revolutionfalcon]

Communication. Tell me what it was you were focusing on. [There's not much point trying again until they at least have a theory on what caused the problem, he feels.]

[redmare]

On getting the fire out, obviously.

[What else would she be focusing on?]

[revolutionfalcon]

[...That sounds likely. Shun looks down at the fans, expression looking like he has a pretty good idea of what went wrong.] Then it sounds like we were both focusing more on getting something out of the fans than how much we were going to be getting. So we got a ridiculous amount because we weren't tempering it.

[redmare]

So you're saying we need to think of the strength level?

[Which she can't deny was a good idea.]

[revolutionfalcon]

At least one of us has to, maybe both. But it makes the most sense as what was wrong with that attempt.

[The first time the fire spawned, neither of them had known exactly what they were trying to get out of the weapons, so that would explain the disparity between the amount they got way back then and this time.]

[redmare]

[How the hell do you even do that? Does she just...think about it?]

Let's just try it then.

[This felt more natural when facing a giant ayakashi.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun hums slightly in assent, giving it a few moments to let her focus before moving again. This time, it's a rapid spin and slash one way, then the other, with both fans held close together. He's focusing on the particular image of a small burst of flame, enough to damage an ayakashi but not to suffer the issue of blowback.]

[redmare]

[Chinatsu closes her eyes, trying to block out Shun to focus. A steady flame..a steady flame..a steady—

There’s a loud sound as the two fans are pushed apart by the strong blaze thst came out from each one.]