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[snowyoni]

Who: Yukina Suzumori (snowyoni) & various others + OPEN
When: IC (05/31 - 06/15) ;; OOC (all of March)
Where: CERES Gymnasium, CERES Academy Kendo Room + Gym.
What: Yukina's post on 05/16 about sparring partners garnered interest. Now it's time for first meetings and practice!
Rating/Warning: None at present.

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[On various mornings throughout the month, those who expressed interest in sparring may find a message from a certain young woman. The swift departure for Cerealia's darker side coupled with the memories kindled by it had left her questioning and quiet for some time. ... Well that and it's taken her a bit to understand how messaging works on the CereVice, alright?

Either way the message will be very polite and invite those interested to come to either the CERES Gymnasium if they aren't students or the CERES Academy's Kendo Room or Gymnasium if they are at a specific date and time. Unfortunately some of her messages may have gotten sent to the wrong people so it's perfectly possible for those who didn't volunteer to end up with a message as well.

Once there they'll find Yukina waiting for them dressed down for practice... or at least in what she regards as dressed down.]

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[OOC: If your character didn't respond to Yukina's search for sparring/training partners, you're perfectly welcome to assume they got a message in error. No sparring is necessary, drop in just to see who the heck messaged you.

Feel free to PM or PP @ goodluckstarfighter with any questions.]

Comments

[prosecutory]

[This morning, Edgeworth is likewise dressed down - his jacket and cravat are absent, and the long sleeves of his white shirt are rolled up. He has his saber in a scabbard at his hip, but he also has a practice sword ready in his hand. His hair is still damp from swimming laps in the pool.

He doesn't really care whether or not his sparring partner is dressed down; in any case, she was wearing something appropriate for training and that's enough for him.]

Good morning, Miss Yukina.

[snowyoni]

[Ah, perfect! She has a practice sword of her own as well as Ken-myoren.]

Good morning.

[Once he's a bit closer, she notes the wet hair with some interest.]

Is it raining outside?

[prosecutory]

[He blinks, raising a hand to his hair.]

Ah, no. I just went swimming.

[Edgeworth jerks a thumb over at the general direction of the gym's pool.]

[snowyoni]

Oh! That's what that's for. I wasn't sure...

[Nobles may have decorative pools near their mansions and people may swim in natural lakes but she's never seen artificial ones of that size.]

[niceguypose]

[Rock Lee climbs in through the nearest window and greets her with a thumbs up.]

Yukina-san! We meet again!

[snowyoni]

[Well there's one place she hadn't thought of looking. She looks understandably surprised.]

... You came through the window?

[niceguypose]

[He nods.]

That's right! [A fuzzy brow drifts curiously upwards.] Is that alright with you, Yukina-san?

[snowyoni]

I don't mind. May I ask why the window instead of the door?

[retorter]

[ It's been tiresome for everyone these past few weeks, including Souji, whose manner is as easygoing and irksome as always. It's like he wasn't forced to wander around with little food or water in the dark while hunted by weird-looking machine monsters just to escape and then find out that CERES was screwing everyone over with human sacrifice rituals. ]

[ Nope, just another regular day for him. A day that seems to be promising, what with Yukina's message. He'd get to blow off some steam this way, and maybe it'd even be fun. ]

[ Souji arrives at dusk, a couple of minutes behind the appointed time, but he doesn't look very sorry about it... Instead, he saunters on in, sword and wakizashi at his waist, and dressed in his usual traditional getup. He looks Yukina up and down. Then, without so much as a greeting - ]

Huh. So you showed up after all.

[snowyoni]

[Buh? Confusion sets in quickly.]

... Why wouldn't I?

[She's the one that message him so...]

[retorter]

[ He shrugs his shoulders. ]

You might have changed your mind at the last moment -- though I wouldn't have blamed you. People have run away before.

[ Ronins and the like. Even students from the dojo sometimes. Souji had built up a nasty reputation of taking spars too seriously, after all. ]

[snowyoni]

[She frowns at that.]

I wouldn't run away from you before I even fought you.

[That seems rather presumptuous of either being beaten or him not being worth her time, yes? Either way it's a disrespectful move.]

I would rather see how skilled you are before I retreated. I'll never learn if I simply run from everything.

[carcinoma]

[ he's gotten a text. but it's not from anyone registered on his phone, it's not a number he recognizes, and he can't immediately think of any reason why he'd be summoned to gymnasium. lop frets over it for quite some time, wondering what to do, and in the end ...

well, it's rude to ignore an invitation.

yukina might be disappointed to see the gym door creak open just a sliver, and a shy face pokes in. it's clearly not someone dressed for sparring, and he looks rather confused and nervous. ]

Um, excuse me? Is there some sort of, um, meeting here?

[snowyoni]

[Yukina is in the process of exploring the gym a little at the door creaks up. She tips a look over towards said door and catches the somewhat shy face looking back through the sliver. Her brows raise up a little.]

I don't believe so.

[A meeting? Well beyond her own... ah. The confusion in her expression eases into surprise.]

I did send some messages about sparring to others but...

[He certainly wasn't one of them since she didn't know him.]

[carcinoma]

[ 'sparring.' lop blinks at that, ears automatically flicking back in thought. ]

Ah. I -- guess I must have gotten the message by mistake, sorry. Maybe my number's similar to someone you meant to send a message to.

[ an awkward laugh as his words taper off, and for a moment it looks like lop's ready to leave. but he hesitates. waffles on the spot, gripping tighter at the door, before venturing a little nervously: ]

Um, but. If ... if it's not much trouble for you, is there any chance I could watch? Um, your sparring, that is. I don't have any experience in anything like that. In fighting. But -- I guess I'm a little curious. Especially in a place like this.

/sob, he's so cute

[snowyoni]

[... That's possible? She hadn't known but as she thinks on it, it does make sense. It's the equivalent of writing a message to one person only to have it received by someone else at a similar location. She flusters, ready to beg pardon for her mistake and endeavor to be more careful with her messages... and then he hesitates. His nervousness is palpable and she ends up watching him with brows raised.]

I don't mind others watching, no.

[Tension leaves her shoulders. Obviously he's not too upset over the mistake and it warms her heart a little to find someone so curious about fighting in general. She smiles a little gently.]

I believe it's important to know how to defend oneself. I understand not everyone enjoys fighting however. Hopefully you're never in such a position here where you would need to.

[She bows after that, proper with her introductions.]

I'm Yukina. I apologize for the earlier message, I'm still learning the technology here.

[definingfuture]

[Tony hadn't expressed any combat interest during the time he spent introducing Yukina to some of the technology CERES stuck them with. He's been more careful not to sound interested after the fiasco at home. It's a new place; he wants to make a good impression. But he was too curious to just pass up the message Yukina sent, even if he did suspect it was an accident.

Hey, it's not like he doesn't have the time, right? So he flies to the Gymnasium to at least check out what she's up to.]

Huh. So you really are starting a sparring group. I was wondering. There seem to be a lot of fighters around.

[Yes, the armor is talking to her as it enters the building. Hi.]

[snowyoni]

[Ah. For a moment she almost wants to shy away. Armor and metal and all that has become something she doesn't really care much for around Cerealia, particularly when it moves on it's own.

Then it speaks. And then she goes wide-eyed.]

Tony?

[... It didn't eat him, did it?]

[definingfuture]

Hey, I got your message.

[The metal figure is waving at her as he takes a look around too, just as casual as he could get. Apparently Tony doesn't realize how he's coming across to her.]

I mean, it looked like a mass forward, but still. I thought I'd come see how things are going. Is this a training day? Did I miss anything good?

[Tony. You're not reassuring her at all.]

[amanesuzuha]

[It was a little weird that she got a message from Yukina. She figured that she got the message by mistake since she didn't remember responding to a post about sparring. Not that she was against sparring though!

She enters the gym and then a big smile crosses her face. She had met this person before through her previous video! Her hand raises to wave towards her]

Hello! It's nice to see you in person!

[snowyoni]

[It's a person she does recognize at least but the confusion is evident.]

Ah... hello.

[A beat.]

You aren't waiting on someone, are you?

[Had someone else made plans here for today?]

[amanesuzuha]

No, not today anyway. I did get a message [she pulls it up onto the cerevice and shows her it] but I assume you didn't mean for me to get it?

Silly technology, you can never tell when wires will get crossed and messages will go to people you didn't expect! But, I don't mind since I get the chance to speak to you again.

[playboyknight]

[Being the type of person to practice at the Gymnasium, Angelo got the message from Yukina about needing a sparring partner (whether she intended that or not). He arrives and after dressing down to only a plain white shirt, pants, socks, and shoes, he eventually finds Yukina.]

Well well, it would seem I've finally found you.

[snowyoni]

... You were looking for me?

[playboyknight]

Of course I was, I got your message on my CEREvice.