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After that last little party, and now with Sharon’s dojo up and ready, I guess it’s time to troll for trainees. I’m looking for anyone interested in learning any level self-defense, but especially those of you with zero experience.

And if you just need to work out some frustration without breaking your hands, I can work with that too.

Walk-ins welcome. I’ll be in rooms 17 and 19 every morning and evening. Stop by, check it out and we’ll see what we can do.

( action | open through apr/may - please date your top level! )

These next two months are all about hand-to-hand, finding balance and feeling comfortable in your body. Faith’s existing trainees are tasked with regular tai chi routines along with very simplistic self-defense. How to break holds, how to apply non-lethal hits-- anything that focuses on breaking away and then getting out of an ugly situation.

Workouts and training, though simple, are not always a cakewalk. In order to build muscle memory, it’s repetitive-- but after a tough session, people can still feel raw and exposed. Faith is kind to her students, but not easy. If she’s felt her companion was not giving the effort they should, she’ll call them out. If she feels there’s something mental that needs to be addressed, she’ll call them out.

If they need to grab a coffee to bounce back, that's great too.

All in all, after a few sessions, Faith's trainee may begin to see that this is not all about physical fitness, but about learning to survive this hell in general.

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[krmvgivv]

I don't know. I guess we made our house into a giant fighting robot so like, probably not alone? Pretty sure this is gonna be a brains fight, not a brawn fight.

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Usually strengths are also weaknesses.

[ which sounds ... like very terrible advice, she knows. ]

Try it this way: How would you take me down?

[krmvgivv]

Oh, that wouldn't be hard. Rocket built me a containment gun. I figure I lure you to a good ambush spot where Mabel would be waiting. That or I convince Angel or some other super strong person you've gone rogue or you're your Mirror and have them do it for me.

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[ she smiles, eyebrows raising because wow kid. very nice. ]

So you got resources to put me down. How do you know they're gonna work?

[krmvgivv]

I don't. But Rocket is a surprisingly adept engineer for a raccoon. It would probably hold you long enough for me to come up with other countermeasures, at least.

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OK, and how far are you actually willing to go?

[ yes good let's discuss killing with the 12-year-old nbd ]

Say you found out this thing's Kryptonite-- you actually gonna use it? Take it down; kill it?

[ likening dipper to batman totally makes up for the subject matter right??? ]

[krmvgivv]

[Dipper doesn't know who Batman is or what Kryptonite is... but he does get the gist.]

Definitely. He needs to die.

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You said no anatomy-- is it corporeal at all?

[ someone mark it on the calendar faith just used two words over two syllables each ]

[krmvgivv]

Not... when I last ran into him. That might change in the future.

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My experience with things that know stuff but can't do anything is that they like to act like it's all in the bag.

[ she chews at her lip. faith had only been harassed by the first once, and she'd screwed up mightily afterward. ]

If this thing's anything like that, maybe you can use that against it.

[krmvgivv]

So like... he'll underestimate us? Cause he's definitely done that before. That's how we've beat him before.

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Yeah, or if you can get him to think he's won somehow. I dunno, guess it depends on what his shtick is. When I was a rebellious idiot, I liked feeling like I had the edge.