i'm bigger than my body [open & closed]

[tanker]

who: John Proudtar + Shigeru Miyata, Minsu Oh, Cisco Ramon, and anyone
what: Catch-all
when: throughout march
where: various places, mainly the perimeter guard training grounds
warnings: none that I can think of! Will update if necessary



i. meditate (open to all)

[ Since putting his training offers out on the Quarantine network, John has been putting up dates and times and locations for 'classes' - he hates calling them as such, but if the shoe fits.

There's nothing special about the spot he's chosen - it's by the river, shadowed by some trees, pleasant and quiet. John's sitting straight on the ground, cross-legged, as he waits for any 'student' who might be interested in learning about meditation. He's prepared to fight stereotypes, remembering Lorna's reaction the first time she saw him practicing, how surprised she'd been, how long she'd teased him for it after.

John waits, until a few people are seated in front of him, before he says anything. ]

Before we start, if you have any questions, feel free to ask. The goal here is to get some tools for you to center yourself if you ever feel like control, or your sense of self is slipping. Meditation is what we make it out to be - contrary to popular belief, it isn't about sitting on a rock for days at a time, humming to yourself, although you're welcome to do that, if it works for you.

[ John smiles. This should be fun. ]

We're going to start much smaller, here.

ii. combat (open to all)

[ Come one, come all, whoever is interested in trying to test themselves against that mutant who can't get hurt. He'll take your punches and will try to give pointers wherever he can - he is, after all, an ex-Marine himself, and has seen combat situation more than once.

Depending on who's here to train and who's interested in helping, there are several stations set up in the Perimeter Guards training grounds - one, large and further away than the rest, for those who want to try out their powers but might struggle with control, or simply have a huge range. One for hand-to-hand combat, with dummies and training equipment strewn around. One for swordfighting - the weapons are blunt. John's walking around between the different stations, helping out wherever he can, and learning, himself - he's never held a sword before, after all.

Come and train, fight, help out, or whatever else you want to do! ]

iii. wildcard

[ Closed starters in comments! Find me at ellievolia if you want a specific starter, or just hmu with anything, I'm happy with basically anything. ]

Comments

[divaricate]

[That sounds like a lot. But she supposes it makes sense. She really is lucky with her powers, huh? She can more easily stand back and not have to do so much of this up close stuff. W h o o p s.

She adjusts her fist as suggested. That ... that looks better, yes.]

Sure. I clearly need some fine-tuning here. [Said with a nod and half smile.]

[tanker]

[ He smiles softly, shrugging. ]

That's why you're here, right?

[ He doesn't know what her powers are, but he can imagine it doesn't involve any punching. Gently, he repositions her wrist, placing two fingers under her elbow afterwards. ]

You also want to keep your elbow mobile, don't lock up. And bend your knees. Be ready to move, always. The more you tense, the easier it'll be for your opponent to respond.

[ His eyes lift to Wanda's. ]

What can you do? I'm thinking this isn't your usual fare.

[divaricate]

Um—

[She pauses to gather a scarlet ball of crackling energy between her palms.]

Telekinesis, and ... other psionic stuff. I didn't exactly get a user's manual with this when I got it, so in a lot of ways I'm still trying to figure out what I can do.

[She doesn't mention the telepathy because that doesn't tend to make her a lot of friends. She lets the scarlet energy fade out.]

[tanker]

[ John nod, eyes moving between her hands and the energy crackling there, and back up to her eyes. ]

It's taken me years to get a hold of my powers. It's slow going - at first I thought I only had the strength, but then my brother accidentally dropped a sledgehammer on my foot when we were doing some DYI, back home, and yet I didn't break anything. Next thing you know he's shooting arrows at me and they're bouncing right off.

[ he shrugs, smiling at the memories. ]

It's trial and error. We can get you there, I'm sure. It'll just take time.

[divaricate]

Damn. Congrats on winning the power lottery -- [a quick smile] -- being invincible sounds nice. [think of all the shit you can do with it.] As a sister, I can say to the rest of that: Siblings, though. [Shooting arrows at him, omg brother pls.]

...I can skip the sledgehammers though, right? [I mean, she's half joking.] Unless I can blow it up instead.

[tanker]

[ A chuckle. ] Yeah, it's - useful. I wish I could... share it, you know? [ Because he can't protect everyone, all the time. And despite a great set of powers, talk about feeling inadequate. But he laughs some more, pushing the though out of his head as much as he can. ]

Right? It only got worse when he started developing powers, too. [ James and John Proudstar, the worst duo for non-Mutant parents. ]

I'd prefer if you did. [ He smirks. ] Do you have any idea of how far and how much you can do with your telekinesis?

[ Maybe he can work some of the stuff Lorna used to do as training exercises. ]