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thebastion2014-08-04 02:17 pm
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[open] Day 215 - outside the Forge
Who: Toph & you!
Open: Open
When: 215, afternoon
Where: Outside the Forge
What: With her bending limited, Toph is looking for another way to fight.
Format: Will match!
Warnings: Excessive levels of awesome from Toph...err...I mean... none.
It's taken Toph a few days to come to terms with the fact that there are ridiculous limitations on her bending. She's tested and retested them, trying to see where she can push it, but everything leads to the same inevitable conclusion. Her bending is limited.
So what's she going to do about it? No way is she going to accept just sitting around and helping out with little odds and ends in this place. She wants to be out on that Skyway, kicking ass and maybe finding Aang, Katara, and Sokka. She needs to find some way of fighting that plays to her strengths without relying on her bending...which probably means learning to fight with a weapon. If Sokka could do it, it can't be that hard.
The question then is — what kind of weapon should she get? Which is how she ends up outside the Forge that afternoon, examining weapons and trying to determine what would work best for her.
Open: Open
When: 215, afternoon
Where: Outside the Forge
What: With her bending limited, Toph is looking for another way to fight.
Format: Will match!
Warnings: Excessive levels of awesome from Toph...err...I mean... none.
It's taken Toph a few days to come to terms with the fact that there are ridiculous limitations on her bending. She's tested and retested them, trying to see where she can push it, but everything leads to the same inevitable conclusion. Her bending is limited.
So what's she going to do about it? No way is she going to accept just sitting around and helping out with little odds and ends in this place. She wants to be out on that Skyway, kicking ass and maybe finding Aang, Katara, and Sokka. She needs to find some way of fighting that plays to her strengths without relying on her bending...which probably means learning to fight with a weapon. If Sokka could do it, it can't be that hard.
The question then is — what kind of weapon should she get? Which is how she ends up outside the Forge that afternoon, examining weapons and trying to determine what would work best for her.
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He's been keeping to himself quite a bit recently, but the forge is practically next door to his workshop, and he HASN'T been just sitting on his hands this whole time. There's still work to be done, and for that, he needs metalwork from the forge. Running into Toph here isn't much of a surprise in that case.
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"A weapon," she says gruffly, after a moment's hesitation.
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He pauses, and he looks her over curiously. "Haven't decided what you want, yet?" he asks.
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"I haven't found a good fit yet," she continues, speaking up enough to actually answer his question this time. "I'm not really a weapons kinda person."
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He smirks at her, looking her over a little more critically now. "Haven't trained with one, or just don't like 'em?" he asks. "If the former, there's a couple of good teachers here. Duke, Zuko, probably Yukio. Ippo, if you prefer your fists. If it's the latter, I'll save you the time. Don't fight with what you don't like. Weapons are nothing if you can't feel comfortable with them. Any weapon has to be an extension of your body, and if you can't make it so, then you're better off sticking with what you know."
He pounds his fist into his palm in emphasis of the point.
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He's infuriating, but he is also from a military culture. His wife's family are all trained in various forms of combat, as are all of his sisters and his mother. To say that he's experienced with combat is something of an understatement, even if he's not especially skilled with it personally.
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"I want to fight on the Skyway," she says. "I don't really care how I do it, as long as I can." And then become the very best at it, because Toph is nothing if not competitive.
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Still, there are surprises to be had.
"Martial arts, then," Colin says, nodding. "Train with a weapon, you'll find it harder to fight without it. Train to BE a weapon, and you'll never be disarmed. All my sisters fight, but Amber is the best at it by far. She can throw down with anyone, anywhere, even if she's half dead and completely naked."
His tone is amused at the thought, and he nods at Toph. He doesn't think anything about questioning her motives or her ability. "Show me your forms?" Colin asks. "You don't need to waste your strength actually using the power, there's no sense in wasting a limited resource. I just need to see how your body moves on instinct."
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[ooc: no this has nothing to do with me not having the brains to describe bending forms, what are you talking about?]
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He shakes his head then, but he still seems to be in a good enough mood. "I'm not claiming to be anywhere near her level, but I know how to throw a punch, and more importantly, how to take one without going down," he tells her.
(OOC: Bah! teach me to comment at 1:00 AM... ANYWAY! No worries about the descriptions. XD If Toph wants to take him up, a simple stomp or push is fine. I've seen AtLA, I know Toph's deal.)
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"You think our worlds might still exist?" she asks. She herself isn't completely sold on the idea of utter destruction, but everyone else she's talked to has seemed quite convinced.
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"I know it's possible," Colin says, smirking. "What I don't know is the odds of it. If the Calamity were strong enough to destroy the multiverse entirely, we wouldn't be here. It was devastating, and there's no doubt that some worlds were destroyed... But I don't care to subscribe to the thought that everything's hopeless."
He points off in the direction of the distillery, perhaps unaware of Toph's blindness?
"Rin and Yukio prove that the incident is hitting multiple iterations of specific worlds, which means that we don't know ENOUGH about what happened to say that everything's gone. All we know is that we're here, and worlds very similar to ours are gone. That's it."
He turns back to her fully then. "But it's also a possibility that our worlds in specific have been destroyed," he tells her. "It's not a certainty that they're safe, just like it's not a certainty that they're gone."
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"Multiple iterations of specific...huh?" Individually she understands what all those words mean -- most of them, anyway -- but he's descended into a level of theoretical physics she's not equipped to understand. The idea of different worlds, she totally gets -- she's heard people talk about other planets before, but that's about as far as her understanding goes. "What's a multiverse?"
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There was more to it than that, but Toph didn't have the technological and theoretical education to appreciate it. Even he didn't truly understand it in all of its details.
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Again, an over-simplification, but it seemed the best way to get the point across. "If we're still here, it's almost impossible to say what kind of damage the calamity actually inflicted," he adds.
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"So your sister's the fighter and you're, what, the family creeper?" she asks, both to change the subject and to disguise her ill-ease in her habitual gruffness.
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He's not the least put off by her. The fact that she seems to be willing to listen is refreshing, and her wicked banter is amusing. "You got a name?" he asks. "Or should I just call you 'Sentinel'? You seem to be taking in quite a bit."
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Other than Sokka.
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"You can call me the Melon Lord," she tells him haughtily.
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To his credit though, he rolls to a crouch, eyes wide in surprise and he stares at her. "Damn! Nice moves, fruit punch!" he tells her. "Put that to work for all of us, and I might acknowledge the Baroness of Brunch."
She wasn't the only one who enjoyed making things fun for herself...
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