sparring with an audience

[tigerpoet]

[If you're passing by the detective agency's office today, you might get to see a fight. Fauna, a familiar sight to most around Starsand, and Atsushi - no, the other one. The other other one.

Atsushi's grinning as they battle, so there's probably no bad blood involved… then again, with these two, it's hard to tell, especially with Fauna's mask covering any expression she might make.

Atsushi is a straightforward fighter, and his strikes with his sword are powerful. He doesn't dodge much, but he takes Fauna's fire and ice attacks head-on and keeps going strong. His attacks are almost reckless, the aggressive style of someone who knows he can tank any hit his opponent deals him and can fix any injuries later, trading openings in his own form for damage dealt to his opponent.

Fauna's fighting style, in contrast to her normal, headstrong nature, is quite methodical- First, blasts of fire and ice, scarring the battlefield to restrict her opponent's movements. Then a form change to her owl form, a bombardment of high-speed knives as she flies around to create openings. Then, when she's finally restricted and worn her opponent down, she strikes- Her lion form comes in swinging, intending to end it in a single, electric blow.

The battle ends in a draw, with Atsushi's sword at Fauna's neck and Fauna's sword at his heart. There's plenty of time afterwards to catch either of the two in conversation, if you've stuck around to watch.]

Comments

[nightwild]

Math is the opposite of relaxing. I've never scored higher than a 50 on math in my life.

[spacialeyes]

But it's always the same! Isn't that kind of neat? You can have a favorite math problem and no matter how bad things get, the answer won't change!

I think that's pretty reassuring?

[nightwild]

That's not helpful. You have to memorize all those equations and formulas and none of them make any sense!

[spacialeyes]

... But the fact that they do make sense is the point?

[Yuuto will never understand these math haters!]

But what about the other stuff? What about reading?

[nightwild]

I don't understand it. It's always, "what does this passage mean", but if you just say it means what it says, everyone laughs at you.

[spacialeyes]

Maybe you need to read with the right people, then! I'll bet there are a lot of people who would love to read with you, Fauna-san. People here like you!

[nightwild]

What's the point in reading with other people? It's not like that's a group activity.