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onemorebounty) wrote2015-11-24 09:53 am
onemorebounty) wrote2015-11-24 09:53 am
Primary Education [Verity, Steve]
*Samus had texted Verity and Steve with directions. This wouldn't quite be one of Verity's usual training sessions, so the setting had to be adjusted accordingly. Instead of the usual mountain road, the Hunter had found a suitable classroom: chairs, tables, good light, a projector, and few distractions. She had brought a duffel's worth of possible teaching aids, left on a table against the side wall. All that remained was to wait for her students to arrive.*
Maybe someone got her Hawkguy for a gift?
"It's like how we used to get giant pencils in kindergarten before we were trusted with the normal ones."
Clink.
Clink.
"So what will this help with besides party tricks?"
Ha! I wish.
"I'm guessing it'll make things like taking apart those guns easier. Lockpicking. Uhm." Steve shrugs after that. He only has a few guesses.
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Just like that. I was eight when I started learning.
*It's a good question Verity asks, and Steve has a couple good answers--he's not as hopeless as he thinks.*
Taking the guns apart, yes, and reloading them, and making it look like you're reloading one that you're giving to someone you don't trust. Palming keys and things off of people. Picking locks. Really, fine-motor practice helps with any small, delicate work you'll be doing with your hands. I can't tell you how many times I've had to put myself back together in the field long enough to get to proper medical attention. Painting or sewing would probably benefit, too.
Seasonally appropriate and multicultural!
"That is hard to argue with. I hadn't thought much about learning to pick locks."
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He's almost got it over--dang it!
Clink
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*Steve gets a nod.*
Bombs, yes. Building them, disarming them, slipping one in somebody's pocket or swiping the pin off of a grenade. All good uses, and good thinking.
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Bombs, on the other hand. She wants no part of that. Her nose wrinkles in distaste.
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And Verity will be better able to break into certain starship rooms with that skill ohoho.Steve's so far behind them in the field of understanding electronics it's not even funny. Okay, it's a little funny. But he's catching on, slowly but surely. He's still the guy that will force a hinge rather than hack a doorlock though.
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Always better to save someone else and yourself than just someone else, if you can. We'll get to bombs in good time, Steve, and what you learn will depend on how much you want to know.
*Sometimes, the hinges are the weak point.*
That's how it feels every time you try and make a dragon a challenge for me isn't it?
Even Samus can't outrun a nuke. Being able to disarm a bomb is, she must admit, a good skill to have.
"Everyone walking away is always the best possible outcome. Let's stick to those kinds of scenarios as much as possible, please." She just. She can't.
She saw him on fire. She can't think about these things.
That reminds me of a story form my favorite D&D campaign...
"Right. I'm aware." Steve gives Samus a nod. He's not looking to die. Worry not. Steve just doesn't pretend there's always a way out. And he's sure as hell not going to make anyone do something he's unwilling to do.
Those empty dead eyes that haunt his sleep are enough of a reminder that Steve has to learn as fast as he can. He has people to help.
"So uhm...What's the yogurt mat for?" A subject change, and a question he wants answered before he has to touch it.
Three custom great wyrm blues in four rounds. Your build is terrifying.
Yoga, Steve. It's a series of exercises in stretching and body position that build flexibility, endurance, strength, and kinesthetic awareness. Because you can hurt yourself if you do these exercises wrong, I don't want you doing them on your own time until I'm sure you've got them down. Might be a few sessions. Understand?
*That question is directed at you, Steve. Not because she thinks you're weak, but because she knows Verity won't push on something that might get her hurt just because she's stubborn.*
It's a damn good party!
"I don't do yoga on my own either," she supplies in an attempt to be helpful. While following a video on her computer, yeah, but she's been to classes long enough to know when she's doing it painfully wrong. "Yoga's really common in the future. It got popular in the seventies I think? Sixties maybe. It's like doing jumping jacks and pushups now."
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"Okay. It's an exercise." Well, so long as Steve's careful, he shouldn't hurt his back. But it's probably better all the same to listen to Samus on this one. He nods along when she gives him an expectant look. "I understand."
He totally would and she's pegged him on that. He can't even get mad about that, because one, it's true. And two, he really doesn't have a real wish to hurt himself. He takes long enough to heal as is.
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Not everything we'll be doing is strictly yoga, but the mats are good for all sorts of floor exercises.
*From the bag, she gets another mat for Verity, and one for herself, unrolling hers and laying it out in part of that space on the floor that was cleared earlier. And since I don't know much about yoga, I'm kind of going to handwave this whole part if nobody minds.*
You guys coulda reminded me about this...
Verity might start off with the advantage over Steve, but that only lasts until her glasses start to slide and shift. She's going to end up tipping over at some point when she's trying to push them back in place but can't really spare that hand.
"Ow."