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Terra ([personal profile] earthshaken) wrote in [community profile] estoria2015-11-24 11:39 pm

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Who: Terra and you!
When: 11th April
Where: CERES Academy and around the city
What: PE classes and assorted workout shenanigans. Come meet your hardcore teacher, Academy students.
Rating/Warning: None yet.



I. CERES Academy

[Terra's got his students out on the school's outdoor track. If you're unfortunate enough to be in his class, he's already made the entire class do fifteen laps without stopping. He realises the class are starting to get tired, though, because he stops them after the fifteenth lap to give them a pep talk.]

You're not going to become strong if you give up now. If anything happens and we're stranded around Tellus again, you might not be able to rely on anyone but your own strength. If this tires you out, you won't be ready for whatever this world has to throw at us.

[He paces as he says this, looking each of them in the eye. Is this military endurance training, or a PE lesson...?]

Five more laps and we're done. This time, I don't want to see anyone stopping or walking.

[There's a collective groan, but Terra isn't about to brook any argument. If you're particularly slow, Terra will catch up and run alongside you as encouragement until the last person crosses the finish line. He'll also stop to talk to anyone after class is dismissed, if you feel like saying hi or griping at him.]


II. Gym

[And when he's not torturing training his students, Terra is training himself in the gym, using a few dummies for target practice. He knows training like this isn't the same -- he can't hone magic or his Keyblade skills under a teacher like he could in the Land of Departure, like in days long gone. Fighting is only one small part of his skills. But being stuck in the city like this, he has to keep his skills sharp.

So you can find him in the gym, enormous Keyblade in hand, slashing, ducking and weaving away from an imaginary enemy.

He doesn't expect anyone to join him. This is purely for his own benefit. A part of him still thinks that if he keeps himself strong, he can keep the darkness at bay. He can protect the people here he feels responsible for. Another part of him knows this is just a distraction, and that by keeping himself busy, he won't think about what's bothering him at all. Not the darkness, or anything else.

He's choosing to ignore that particular thought. He pauses, wiping the sweat away that beads on his forehead, and charges at one of the dummies.]



III. Food stop

[Even Terra has to slow down every once in a while to avoid burning himself out. On the way back to his apartment he stops at one of the food stalls to grab a smoothie and to sit and rest for a while. Other people seem to have had a similar idea, though, because all the tables around the stalls are crammed full of people eating and socialising, with no empty tables in sight.

At which point he'll approach you, gesturing at the seat opposite.]


Mind if I join you?
braavado: (We'll bust ALL of them out)

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[personal profile] braavado 2015-11-25 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Korra's face lights up with a smile when she sees who's talking to her.]

Terra! [She begins to clear away parts of the table so he has room.] Go ahead. You don't even have to ask next time.
immobileyes: (I hate them)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-11-25 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ No, she's got this! Completely and triumphantly! She's so good, she's--

... Okay no, she's keeling over when she tries to go a little faster. Mary's stamina: still a work in progress. ]
braavado: (But it's just a ferry ride away)

[personal profile] braavado 2015-11-26 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[She pushes aside her bowl of noodles and props her chin on her hand as she looks at him.] It's...going okay, I guess. Still kind of weirded out by the whole, you know, "people can disappear and appear from the colony" thing.

What about you? [Sending a meaningful look at his arm this time.] Everything healed up since then?
condoner: (041)

[personal profile] condoner 2015-11-26 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Just a little bit.

[ she's rather surprised by the question, as she wasn't exactly intending to chat. but it's all good! ]

We're investigating a murder.
madcuriosity: (Fairy child)

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[personal profile] madcuriosity 2015-11-26 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Alice was exploring everything, apparently she as going to be a student, which was fine. In her travels to learn the colony, she stopped for lunch. Oh what terribly strange food this place had. She had some iced tea and a little cupcake, which the nice woman at the vendor had given to her for free!

She was sitting down, her legs swinging back and forth since they didn't touch the ground when she heard the question. She looked up and offered a smile.
]

Oh! Of course, sir! Please do!
immobileyes: (Stamina at .2%)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-11-26 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
... Did I make it?

[ Mary. No. You Tried. ]
immobileyes: (Stamina of .4 seconds)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-11-26 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ With assistance, yes. Her legs are shaking, though, and she wobbles as her vision plunges into weird, swimming lines.

Oh. So maybe she hadn't been breathing right... ]


S-sorry...
playboyknight: (02)

[personal profile] playboyknight 2015-11-26 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Because I have no gold in my pockets and things cost gold.

[He shrugs his shoulders.]

I somehow used the... device thing I was given to find a place to stay, but not much else. It's the oddest contraption I've ever seen and I have no clue how to use it fully.
immobileyes: (I hate this line)

[personal profile] immobileyes 2015-11-26 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
... You said if it tired us out... we wouldn't be ready.

A-and I... [ Her voice sounds incredibly feeble right now, but half of that may just be because she's trying not to cry. ] I don't wanna... be helpless...
yourotherleft: (blah blah blah)

[personal profile] yourotherleft 2015-11-26 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Funny, in a place like this with all the technology and no battles to fight, I'm not hurting for sparring partners. But one more is fine by me.

Pretty sure those creatures came from outside, maybe from the jungle where we got taken. On the one hand, it'll probably take another total breakdown in colony security for that to happen again...on the other, that kind of breakdown seems more likely than the alternative. [you know, just a thought]
a_meebo: (And come out at night)

[personal profile] a_meebo 2015-11-27 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[His smile is a little wry, but he appreciates sincerity.]

I just got here maybe two or three days ago. At least you can see me. Not everyone can, so...some might think you're talking to thin air if they take a good look over here.

[Mikleo sounds slightly apologetic about that.]

Granted, it probably looked like the book and drink were floating in place while I was carrying them over here.
condoner: (014)

[personal profile] condoner 2015-11-27 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ wow, she did not expect that at all. she looks at the people staring at them and bows her head a bit, apologising. when that's done, she looks back at terra. ]

Well, it happened just a day ago, at one of the jewelry shops. It was one of the locals who had died.
madcuriosity: (Yes your majesty)

[personal profile] madcuriosity 2015-11-28 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
Well, hello, Mr. Terra! My name is Alice, Alice Liddell, how do you do? [She offered a smile and a curtsy from where she sat, not wanting to stand.]

It's so crowded today, wouldn't you say?
reprizesal: (Paper - The answer I seek)

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[personal profile] reprizesal 2015-11-28 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Being a tantou type spirit, Sayo's usually one of the more faster students in the class. Speed is one of his traits in battle, so running laps like this is no trouble for him.

Of course, even he have his own limits. While he's not as tired as the human students, the laps did make him tired. But he would rarely make complaints about the lessons Terra gives, generally. It's all training for him and that makes PE Sayo's easiest subject by far.

And that means Sayo's likely one of the first to finish the laps. By the end of it, Sayo's looking at his tired classmates and overhearing some of their grumblings. Personally, they should get used to this so they can be prepared. If he notice Terra's nearby, he'd simply say:
]

... They're not used to this.

[Not everyone was trained for war, or was literally forged for self defense.]
braavado: (Seems like I keep making enemies)

[personal profile] braavado 2015-11-29 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I think so. [Though the food stop is noisy and crowded enough to cover their conversation, Korra glances around warily still. The whole place just makes her paranoid.]

Even if the spirits have the worst way of doing things [apparently her thoughts aren't too far off from Terra's] it's looking like something happened to them and it was CERES' fault. I just wish there was more we could figure out.

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