Seventh Trial - Self-Improvement

[knighterrantofthedragon]

Who: Alric and whoever, depending on the prompt!
What: Various bits of training and so on!
Where: Various places around campus
When: All week (8/9-8/16)
Warning(s): Not really expected!



Okay not entirely knightly, but sort of.

Powers Development (Shulk): Alric had spoken to Shulk a little while ago about meeting up to study how exactly his power worked, the better to develop new ways he could use it. He made a point to go to that meeting relatively early in the day, when he was well-rested, as had been asked of him.

Team Training (Tiamaris and Hijikata): Alric still had ambitions of getting his team (such as it was at the moment) geared up for really doing some good. A bit part of that was obviously going to be intensive training with Tiamaris. Alric had his own control issues, but Tiamaris was downright volatile, and was going to need serious work to get to a point where he could function reliably without risking a meltdown over someone saying the wrong thing. Hijikata's guidance would surely be invaluable, in making that happen, as well.

Power Training (OTA): Alric had taken to practicing with his powers out by the shoreline, where there was minimal damage he could do to himself, to others, or to property, if he slipped. It gave him an opportunity to safely push the limits of his control in every possible way, such as plasma-sculpting sand into glass figures to practice fine detail, or handling multiple plasma constructs simultaneously, or working on getting more acrobatics out of his plasma jets (which often ended with a splash).

Physical Conditioning (OTA): As much as it was important to keep his control of his powers well-tuned, physical fitness was important, particularly for a knight. Moreover, exercise had proven to be one of those things Alric found especially useful for maintaining that discipline he'd worked so hard on, and he regularly invested a solid chunk of time in aerobics as well as strength training in the school gym.

Choose Your Own Adventure (OTA): Alric has lots of other things to keep up on, including guitar and fencing and a long list of more academic areas of study in which his family expects him to keep up. Feel free to bump into him doing any of those in an appropriate space, or taking a break somewhere like a bay window or in the branches of a tree!

Comments

[reallyfeelingit]

As always, Shulk had a smile to greet his guest. Sure, it was his lab, but he was always busy. And visitors, especially ones that had appointments, had priority. Putting away the tools he had in hand, he faced Alric.

"Hullo."

[tiamaris]

Asked to meet Alric, Tiamaris met him. In borrowed pants and yet another borrowed shirt. He had no clue how he was ever going to replace these things, and he hated that he kept taking, kept being the drain his father always said he was. A waste that should never have been born, that did nothing but kill and take from people.

He tried not to think about that, as he met his friend, his only friend, where requested, his eyes a dull pale orange. He still.... That last time... he should have handled that better. Is that why Alric wanted to meet him? To make sure he understood how poorly he had acted?

Did someone say branches of a Tree?

[rhiaofdruma]

Rhia was hanging out in a tree, closer to the building that usual, watching people, trying to decide who she should talk to next. She was taking his advice, and trying to learn more so she could speak for the trees. So she could help. And then... she could go home.

When the trees told her that someone was climbing about, she made her way over, and when she saw who it was...

She dropped down, more or less, from a branch a ways above him. Her knees remained hooked on the branch as she swung down, facing him from the wrong direction.

"Hi!" she said, giggling, vines from her shirt draping over her face, hair and arms reaching towards the distant ground.

Power Training

[jolie_aile]

It wasn't too hard to find Alric; the lakeside was a usual spot for practicing powers, and his were rather visible, though not Marisa-levels of flashy. But then again, no one was really Marisa-flashy except Marisa.

Flandre walked down there slowly, stopping while she was still out of the way of any errant plasma but still within easy speaking distance.

"Having fun there?"

...hopefully she didn't interrupt him while he was flying. She actually didn't want to dunk Alric into the water.