Training at Sunrise

[buildyourworld]

Who: Tieria and YOU
When: May 9th, a day AFTER Intro Log
Where: Caissa, Coastal District
What: Tieria organized a mass training session, hideous ensues?
Rating: Violence, language, more violence




If you made your way to the location, you're already one step closer upon completing your training because this part of the beach is the furthest away from any settlement or port and also the hardest to find. You probably found it by following other heroes' trail, or you're those who stumbles around until you found it or you're actually one of those who went scouting before the actual day.

Either way, congratulation for making it this far ( puns completely intended ). Surrounding the rocky beach is an even rockier cliff. Be careful not to stumble or you will find yourself in need of healing. Thankfully, there are Kings ready to make a guinea pig out of your healing needs around. Your training will be held on the round rock-carved deck overlooking the beautiful sea or on the less rocky stretch of the beach, depending on your Trainer's choice. If you're lucky, your Trainer might even have you hike up that rocky cliff. You may even treat yourself to Caissa's fantastic sunset if you made it up there in time!

In any case, once you've arrived at sunrise ( or rather when the sun has risen sufficiently over the horizon because you're that bad with direction or has no sense of time ) and is done catching your breath, you will come to a notice pinned on the tall fences that tells you to tie a ribbon ( in the buckets, also tied to the fence ) corresponding to the training you wish to partake in on your arm.

Stamina ( GREEN ) ✽ Endurance ( ORANGE ) ✽ Weapons ( BLUE ) ✽ Magic ( PURPLE )

The notice will also instructs those who volunteers to be Trainers to tie a different set of ribbons, with black stripe over the four corresponding colors, on their arm to help differentiate them and the course(s) they're instructing. Of course, if you turn out to be a terrible Trainer, Tieria will rip that ribbon off you and very possibly shoves you into the sea.

There are no training weapon available because you're supposed to bring your own magic weapon.
If you forgot, you can either run back for it or pick a different course.

There's also a clause in very bold red letters that forbid killing. Break it and you will be broken in return.

Are you done tying those ribbons? Then what are you waiting? Get moving!





(( OOC: Please indicate in your top level if your character is a Trainer (which course are they instructing?) or Trainee.
eg.: Harry Potter | TRAINER - MAGIC
eg.: Severus Potter | TRAINEE - EVERYTHING PLEASE

Feel free to mingle around! Make friends, frenemies and even better, rivals! ))

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[impulsives]

[ Staring up at the cliff, Shinn's just contemplating whether he's up to this or not. Considering he's a soldier, this kind of shit hour training session is not something he's unused to. In fact, it's kind of refreshing since he just spends his mornings doing calisthenics and a... 10 mile jogging session.

So pretty basic, all things considered. And well...

He's going to start climbing. ]

Since I don't have fancy magic shit, I'll probably just jog down or something.

[praises]

[ Allelujah shakes his head, hoping he can just. Will some patience into Shinn. (That is perhaps the bigger endeavor here, forget the cliff.) ]

Magic can be saved for another time.

[ Contrary to his fleeting thought about patience, Allelujah follows suit right beside him. ]

I suppose that makes this the old-fashioned way, now. But I don't mind.

[ If you don't. ]

[impulsives]

[ Willing patience into Shinn is just asking for the impossible, really. ]

Nothing more invigorating than actual morning physical work out, right?

[ It's been a while since Shinn's trained with others. Or rather, back then it was pretty much suffering, army drills were never fun. But doing these kind of things without someone barking orders...

Yeah, he enjoys it, at least. ]

[praises]

[ IMPOSSIBLE IS A WORD FOR QUITTERS. ]

I prefer it, even knowing we don't have to look so far for the effects of gravity anymore.

[ Shifting his weight from foothold to foothold, he glances aside. ]

Still, I'd say the view is better here.

[ At least compared to carbon spaceship hulls. ]

[impulsives]

[ That, Shinn can agree on. Living in spaceship gets boring pretty quickly, despite the infinite stars that actually surrounded him, it's still different compared to seeing a hill full of life. ]

Yeah, it's better than being cooped up in the gym back home, all we get to see were just windowless walls and ceilings. Them's the breaks of living in a spaceship, I guess.

[ In fact, it's been a long while since... he last did this, considering his two weeks coma... ]

Training in atmosphere like this still feels weird to me, even though I've been here for a few months already.

[ even with that hiking, he still can't really get used to doing training in such scenic locales. ] ]

[praises]

I spent the majority of my time in space also. But I was lucky — I was able to spend the two years prior to this on Earth. My living situation was... rural. So I became used to things like this.

[ That's why he hasn't cast any spells just yet, hasn't called upon magic. There's something familiar and comforting about accomplishing the climb on his own. ]

Still, I'd like to hear about this ship, if you're willing to tell me.

[impulsives]

...My ship, huh.

[ There's a short period of silence as he continued the climb, having to find ways to word it thanks to the ship not... really being there anymore thanks to that last battle. ]

It was the top of the line, at least, for my faction. Remember that time I told you about the three stolen Gundams? Those things were supposed to be stationed there for further testing, alongside mine. Not a lot of rec activities there, but hey, it's military.

Still, it was home for a while for me.

[praises]

I understand. I was stationed aboard a ship I considered my home as well, no matter how much I missed the surface while I was in space. When days pass like that... through training, briefings, maintenance, meals, it's not odd to think of it that way.

[ Whether it was gone or not. Homes take different shapes, after all. ]

[impulsives]

...Yeah.

[ A bit of silence was there as Shinn thought about Minerva more, on how everyone, despite being tense from the war, still has the time to relax and be themselves. Now that the captain herself is never to return, it's a bit sad to think about.

...At least, she didn't die alone, if what Kira said to him was true. And that's enough for him. ]

Are you their engineer or something?

[ He knows that looks aren't everything, considering both of them are climbing a steep cliff with no problems right now, but from what he gathered from Allelujah's personality.

Well, there's not a lot of roles that could fit him in any kinds of ships, space or sea alike. ]

[praises]

[ Knowing that Shinn is familiar with similar mechanics to that of his world, and Gundams, at the very least, makes Allelujah pause to chew on his response for a moment. With one swift push upwards, he's cleared another section of rock before he says, simply: ]

No. I'm a pilot.

[ Maybe it's a risk, saying so.

But Allelujah finds so much familiarity in what the younger pilot has to say that he doesn't want their camaraderie to always go unspoken. ]

[impulsives]

[ There's a beat as Shinn almost missed his right foothold while climbing up due to surprise. Thankfully he caught himself quickly due to his already high natural reflexes as it is. But...

Holy crap, no wonder this guy said he's seen some shit, but he didn't expect him to be that close to the carnage? ]

...I see.

[ He's older than him, that's for sure, but... ]

I was just thinking that you're too gentle to be a pilot.

[praises]

[ Allelujah is quick on the uptake, and doesn't miss the skip to the cadence Shinn has while climbing. He manages a somewhat thin smile, despite his genuine expression. It's almost silly, coming from someone so young. But those who've endured cruelty see things differently.

They really are cut from the same cloth. ]

Do you think so?

[ Up ahead, there's a rift in the rock that makes a serviceable ledge, and he sets his sights on it. ]

There was a reason I was chosen. I was made to fight.

[impulsives]

[ "I was made to fight."

The words echoed in Shinn's head as he hasn't caught up to Allelujah's position just yet. And judging from his expression, it's clear that what Allelujah said struck a chord in him.

It took him a bit to get up to where Allelujah is, and it took him a while more for his breathing to steady. ]

...Made to fight, that's... something I didn't expect to hear here.

[ He's definitely sure they don't share the same world, but the concepts... The concepts are there. Gundams, super soldiers. Those things are something he's familiar with. Intimately so, for the latter, even. ]

[praises]

I feel as though it's better that people don't hear about it.

[ As Shinn can probably guess, given that Allelujah has given him only pieces of information, carefully laid out clues to illuminate the mystery of who and what he really is. Not because he has the want or need to lie to his face, but because there are likewise things that he can only protect that way.

Once Allelujah alights on the ledge, he waits for Shinn, reaching down to offer him a hand up. ]

But you're different.

[ As a fellow pilot. ]

[impulsives]

[ Taking his hand, Shinn just parks himself down on the edge of the cliff, taking a small break is good, considering how rattled his mind was at this series of revelations.

Not only is Allelujah a pilot, he is also...

"I'll see you tomorrow, Shinn."

...A super soldier, someone made to fight from their birth. They're different than Coordinators like himself, who at least was given freedom despite their own altered genetic makeup.

But still... he should at least be glad that Allelujah at least seems normal enough. And... he has a future he's fighting for. That's good, right? But...

What about his childhood? Did he spent it all cooped up in a lab, without ever seeing the sun? Without ever having a friend until later on in his life? Shinn keeps thinking back to another person he knew who was raised like Allelujah, a weapon since birth, who at the very least learned the preciousness of tomorrow, of hope, in her last moments. ]

I used to know someone, she was also... Well, I think she'd be similar to you in a lot of ways. If she's still living, at least.