[Action/Anywhere in the Garden] What is this off-day you speak off?

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

[Ronnae had attended all her classes, done all her assignments and then some, studied ahead for material that would be coming in the next couple of weeks and finished all the extra credit homework she had asked for.... She had taken on this load so she'd keep busy and wouldn't have to leave her dorm room... Which had been unusually quiet to be honest.

Now however, with lack of things to do, she found herself braving the Garden on a little personal tour. She might as well explore as much as she could while the halls weren't packed with people. You would find her anywhere and everywhere as she made her way through the areas that looked emptier, exploring as much as she could.]

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[gunblade-grrl.livejournal.com]

[Against a humanoid opponent with weapons, Maria puts up a much better fight. Her weapons are balanced so that her blows tend not to have much weight behind them, only her own strength, and her parries involve deflecting more than blocking. On the other hand, her style resembles Ronnae's in a reliance on acrobatics and momentum. She's also amazingly aggressive -- a surprising number of her counters rely on whipping the blades around fast enough to make an opponent worry constantly about an attack from the blade they're not engaging, and she has a rather alarming habit of stepping into an attack to rob it of momentum and leverage.]

[If she'd been using her triggers, it might have been a closer contest.]

[The superior strength and skill she's facing decides the spar, though. It's not long before one too many hits lands her on her backside, one gunblade spinning across the floor.]

...you really are good...

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

[Ronnae blushed and looked down after a quick bow. It hadn't come lightly as she had been trained heavily since she could. That along with being of a powerful race and participated on heavy wars made up for a lot of her strengths, but not all.]

T-thanks, you should see me in the wars. My superiors say that's where I really shine and let myself go all out.

[gunblade-grrl.livejournal.com]

I should be studying under you. How do you even move the weapons like that? It's so fast and yet so strong!

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

Ah t-thanks~ I've jus' been trained that way. I can also do it just as easily with oversized weapons.

[gunblade-grrl.livejournal.com]

I'd like to know what training you used so I could steal a few pages from that book!

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

I... I'll see what I can do. Maybe I can write it down and send it to you?

[gunblade-grrl.livejournal.com]

Oh, writing it down might help, but why send it to me? I live in the dorms the same as you do!

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

Oh ummm I... I d-didn't know... I c-could bring it to you I t-think.

[gunblade-grrl.livejournal.com]

I'd be really grateful! One of the biggest weaknesses of my style is that the blades are balanced for motion instead of power, so I can use two at once. The trigger should do a lot to compensate for that when I can use it, but it'd be great to learn other ways too.

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

Oh ah s-sure, no problem t-then. [She bows low and rises once again.] I'd be happy to take my notes to you p-personally then.

[gunblade-grrl.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'd be very grateful. Is there anything I can do for you in return?

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

Ah n-no I'm fine, really. Nothing in return needed.

[gunblade-grrl.livejournal.com]

Well, if you ever need a favor, I owe you one.

[She's not getting away so easily!]

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

O-okay then, t-thanks.

[She gave a quick short bow and smiled timidly.]