school for kids who can't fight good and want to learn how to do other stuff good too

[heavyhitter]

Hey guys! With Ramir's recent post in mind, I figured I'd throw something together for characters looking to be taught or teach fighty stuff. So here's an OOC planning thing for it! You don't have to have tagged the post to participate, you can assume your character found out there's lessons going on through word of mouth, or however else you like. And on a similar note, Ramir would be happy to play matchmaker and pair teachers with students if you're not sure how the connection might kick off, or you can also handwave that having taken place elsewise. Whatever works!

If you play a teacher, go ahead and use this form and post it in the teacher thread:
<b>Character name:</b> <b>Character journal:</b> <user name=journal> <b>Skills:</b> List any teachable combat skills your character has that they'd be willing to teach others! <b>Notes:</b> Here's the Anything Else section. Is your character going to be a hardass teacher, would they take some doing to be convinced to teach their skills? Would they demand payment from students? Any teachable non-combat skills to throw into the bargain? Any kind of personality they get along with really well, or clash with? Is there a maximum number of students you want them to take on? Anything you can think of that prospective student-players should know.

And students, here's your form for the student thread:
<b>Character name:</b> <b>Character journal:</b> <user name=journal> <b>Preexisting skills:</b> What is your character already good at, and what kind of a foundation are they building on? <b>Skills sought:</b> What would you like your character to learn? It's fine if you don't have anything in mind yet. <b>Notes:</b> Here's the Anything Else section. Would your character be a terrible student or a dedicated learner? Any hang ups that they'd have to get over in lessons? Handicaps? Any kind of personality they get along with really well, or clash with? Anything you can think of that prospective teacher-players should know.

Once that's all filled out, go student/teacher shopping! And yes, you can totally sign up under both headers. Pick up new skills, grab CR you've been coveting for a while! I'm figuring teachers could have multiple students and students could have multiple teachers, just to spread the CR all around. You're also welcome to either plan out threads here, or just talk out and handwave how the lessons would go.

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Teachers

[heavyhitter]

TEACH THE THING

Students

[heavyhitter]

LEARN THE THING

[heavyhitter]

Character name: Ana Ramir
Character journal: heavyhitter
Preexisting skills: super strong... so strong... too strong. Also even before the strength thing happened she could hold her own in a brawl pretty well, and has fought barehanded and with knifes. Not that there was any style involved in it, it was just... whatever worked...
Skills sought: She's still trying to figure out what kind of weapon she can utilize her strength with, but that will also be useable if she loses her strength again. Possibly archery. Swords look appealing. Anything but a hammer, people have got to stop suggesting hammers. She's also looking to improve general coordination/strength training/unarmed combat... make her more badass pls it's all she asks. She'll be looking for multiple teachers, probably with Koltira, Achilles, and Graham among them.
Notes: Ramir can basically get along with anyone, even Achilles (after a while), and will be pretty motivated to be a good student. She will absolutely do her best to drive any teachers insane while she learns from them. Also worth nothing, I got an indestructible weapon for her via ALASTAIR rewards, so breaking it with her strength won't be a problem once she settles on something. (B

[defenceless]

Character name: Rin Tohsaka
Character journal: defenceless
Skills: The wide, wide world of magic bullshit, including just about any magical topic you can think of from "how does this spell do a thing" to mastery, and magic combined with physical fighting.
Notes: Rin is a terrible tsundere who will challenge you and work you hard, but that's because she cares about you and doesn't want you to die... Really. That said, she might ask payment (just do favors for her, bro) and her skill set is more magic-based than purely fighting, but I thought I'd throw her in here for anyone with a character interested in magical things! She gets along well with pretty much everyone as long as they show a willingness to improve. (Note: "Well" may actually include arguing with you and subtly hating your guts, i'm sorry)

Pick her up as a teacher today and join fellow students like Sieglinde and Sigma!

Re: Teachers

[asscan]

Character name: Laedo Ledo
Character journal: asscan
Skills:
-Hand-to-hand combat
-Asandus style swordplay with dagger and longblade
-Offensive and defensive magic
-Over-eloquent trash talk
-Can also provide the broad side of a barn for those who can't punch to save their lives, if dragon-flavour wanted.

Notes:
Laedo practices warm-ups and basic movements--flexibility, speed, strength, and endurance--every morning at sunrise to get the rust out of his human form. If anyone wants to karate kid with him he won't mind too much. He can be paid in compliments and good food, and gets along best with those who are willing to ignore his blatantly patronizing blather. He treats humans a little bit like he's offering them charity, to be warned. I'd love if anyone with magic powers or any non-standard humans (non-humans, big characters, both) wanted to exchange tips and tricks, and he'd be happy to work with sparring partners.

[ex_adept136]

Character name: Haise Sasaki
Character journal: pursuit
Skills: Hand-to-hand combat and use of melee weapons, primarily. Maybe puns. Got some bonus appendages? He can work with that too...for reasons.
Notes: Haise has personal experience training his squad, who came in at varying skill levels ranging from Hopeless to Tryhard, and he's very good at taking individual capabilities into consideration. Likewise he looks at motivation and experience into account. Expect him to cook for anybody he's training with, he really misses doing domestic stuff like this for his squad back home.

As a bonus there's no need to be all that worried about hitting him too hard, he's got a regen factor.

[sheriffing]

Character name: Emma Swan
Character journal: sheriffing
Preexisting skills: Hand-to-hand combat, use of guns, creative use of normal objects (aka she will knock you out with a telescope).
Skills sought: Emma has used a sword briefly and could use more practice. She's also more street-smart when it comes to her asskicking, so different types of combat training would be cool. I'm probably gonna have her pester dishearten for archery skills, too.
Notes: Emma would show up for every lesson, but she lacks patience, so there would be grumbling when she got frustrated. She'll pick anything up with practice.

because she'd be up for this too...

[defenceless]

Character name: Rin Tohsaka
Character journal: defenceless
Preexisting skills: She knows a bunch of magic, and has at least serviceable skill with martial arts (Bajiquan, specifically—Chinese martial arts where your body is the weapon, lots of kicks and punches, etc.).
Skills sought: She wants to improve her skills even further in martial arts/hand-to-hand combat, and possibly build more muscle strength! She is very fit and muscular for a smol Japanese girl, anyway, but she wants to be able to kick some serious ass if she loses the ability to use her magic during a mission. Also, people who can teach her how to kill—as far as taking a life without your feelings interfering, that sort of thing.
Notes: Rin will be a super dedicated and loyal student. Really, she's just looking for people who will spar with her and not be afraid to go all out in a fight. She can have a pretty abrasive personality—she feels her emotions honestly, she's loud, she gets irritated if someone insults her—but it's worth mentioning that she's thoughtful and constantly thinking about/caring for other people, too... At her core, she's a giant squishy worrywart (who blushes a little too much).

[asscan]

Please knock a full-grown piss-baby on his ass and make him reconsider his take on small human women some time.

[asscan]

I would love to do a scene at some point where these two have (or maybe we can handwave the action if we're not getting enough other CR, since I move so slowly!) moved on to Laedo in his normal form trying to whoop Haise with wing and tail attacks, just to keep testing one another. Maybe use of some magic, too? Since they've both got regenerative powers they should know by now that they can roll with the punches. I think Laedo'd like to practice against a tiny target because he's only really honed against others his own size, and the rest of the universe apparently doesn't work like that!

[ex_adept136]

Heck yes give me all your high-fantasy/jrpg style battles!

And one day maybe Haise'll actually let loose with his kagune, down the line. But for now heck yeah gimme swooping dragon attacks and magic volleys!

Re: Students

[evantuality]

Character name: Evan Friave-Goodlace
Character journal: evantuality
Preexisting skills: Nothing. He can swim and he can climb trees, and he can set fires with his mind, but otherwise he's a noodly nerd.
Skills sought: He would settle for basic self defense. He probably doesn't have the capacity for much more than that. He would like to learn the very basics of hand-to-hand so he doesn't automatically get whupped anytime someone throws a punch. He would also like to learn how to aim and shoot projectile weapons. Gun, bow, whatever.
Notes: He is going to be dogged, determined, but a very slow physical learner, and he will probably grouse a lot. If his teacher laughs at him or shouts at him, he will bail. He's a sensitive little arse when it comes to his total physical incompetency and as much as he would never admit it outright, he could really use some encouragement.

[asscan]

Character name: Laedo Ledo
Character journal: asscan
Preexisting skills: Laedo's a trained soldier in his sparkle-dragon war, and has a human form he's spent a lot of time training in as well. He's quite proficient with magical and physical combat.
Skills sought:
-He'd like to continue practicing against multiple opponents... though that's a hell of a lot to thread out so I'm looking to see if anyone wants to handwave sparring whose character would actually be up at the crack-end of the morning for a couple of hours. (Either in human form with hand-to-hand or blades, or in dragon form with teeth and claws and tail and wings)
-He very much wants to learn how to recognize, assess, and counter other kinds of magic. Where he's from the only magic he's ever had to fight has been stuff he instinctively notices and recognizes as wrong. I wouldn't mind an excuse to write cheesy sparkle-fights, too.
Notes:
Laedo can take direction surprisingly well, though he learns better from those he respects or believes have the same intentions in mind. He doesn't like fighting for competition (though when pressed his ego honour will demand it) and will quickly pull out the stops if he believes he's being mocked or treated poorly.
He'll prefer to seek out teachers who are pretty chill. He's such a hard-ass that touching butts with another hard-ass is likely to cause a fragmentation of space-time... though I mean if such a thing were to occur at least they're in the best organization for it to happen... so hit him up with whatever you got!

[strikingtwice]

Character name:Meallan Lavellan
Character journal: strikingtwice
Preexisting skills: He's great at magic and could handle a staff pretty well... when he had two hands. Now he doesn't and he's aware that he's not as good with combat though the magic is still fine.
Skills sought: He'd like to learn something that he can use with just the one arm and he's pretty open to what it would be. Mostly he doesn't want to end up in a bad situation due to being a glass cannon mage with no useful combat skills.
Notes: Meallan learns quickly and is more of a hands on student which will work out better in this situation, hopefully. He also has a tendency to push himself and might forget that a trainer has other commitments as well.

[strikingtwice]

Character name: Meallan Lavellan
Character journal: strikingtwice
Skills: Combat magic! Specifically your flashy video game "here's a lightning storm enjoy your screaming death" style. Also tracking and survivalist skills if anyone is interested in that direction. He also knows some archery and is proficient with a staff, but since he's not really able to use those skills right now he can only give some pointers and can't demonstrate anything.
Notes: While unfortunately Thedas has a 'either you're born with magic or you're not' policy on it, so Meallan can't teach those without magic the skill, he can help those who do know it already with refining spells and whatnot. He wouldn't need convincing beyond someone expressing an interest in learning and wouldn't expect any payment for it either. He'd likely be a pretty patient teacher, though he might tease and joke around with students a little if they seem like they can take that.

[dishearten]

Character name: Graham / The Huntsman
Character journal: dishearten
Skills: Archery. Hand to Hand. Survivalist skills. Some level of plant identification and herbology, though if you really wanna know about that he'd direct you to Sieglinde. Tracking.
Notes: He's pretty open about what he can do and will offer to teach people that want to learn. If you learn something from him you're going to have to be okay with hanging out with his wolf brother. He might not be the warmest teacher, that's just because he has no heart. He's very patient, too much for some characters I'd imagine. He'd also expect you to work pretty hard if you wanted to learn. He's not going to half-ass, if you're gonna learn you are gonna learn.

also if he teaches you archery he will probs make a bow for you.

[strikingtwice]

sparkle-magic fights with dragon maybe?

Re: because she'd be up for this too...

[wardance]

Masamune can teach the killing and putting emotions aside but without becoming numb to everything else part really well. If she wants to be just a cold-blooded killer type, though, I can't offer it because he hates people who go that far with taking lives. :D;

[winces]

Character name: olivia
Character journal: winces
Preexisting skills: singing, dancing, domestic stuff; she has some sword-fighting skills, and has been learning a lot of healing (both magical and practical) from sieglinde, ashraf, and law!
Skills sought: more sword-fighting and some hand-to-hand combat; she's also got a dagger she should make use of
Notes: olivia is a very dedicated learner, to the point she might even seek out several teachers. she's got the athleticism to fight, but may lack that ~killer's instinct~ (though she has participated in war before, and killed); ideally i'd love for someone to teach her how to take advantage of how light-of-feet she is, and her small stature

[12inches]

Character name: Sigma Klim
Character journal: 12inches
Preexisting skills: Nil. He's a modern day college kid, his closest brush with the ~arts of combat~ is maybe a bar fight. He knows how to throw a punch without breaking his thumb and that's about it. Faced off against normal equally untrained humans/creatures, he does have a knack for grappling enemies into submission; size, strength, and tenacity are definite advantages for him. Otherwise... help...
Skills sought: For starters, basic hand-to-hand/self defense/reading one's opponent in general. He could probably be convinced to pick up a weapon of some sort, but a foundation is more important.
Notes: Even if he butts heads, Sigma meshes pretty well with anyone if they aren't a complete asshole (or if they're female, but that's their problem not his). He's a quick learner and would really dedicate himself to not being useless anymore, even if he might get frustrated in the beginning. Most of his hang ups are in the doing-actual-damage/killing-anyone-or-thing department, hence the hesitation on the pointy weapons front. If he's paired with anyone smaller than him (or female) for training or sparring, he'll definitely be pulling his punches, so breaking him out of that is probably top priority.

[12inches]

I know this isn't the goal of this matchmaking post but I'm gonna need olivia to suplex him at some point if they practice together alright

[12inches]

hello there fancy meeting you for the first time ever huh

Anyway yes please hello help!! Sigma's definitely in the Hopeless category, but he's a strong guy and very eager to learn hand-to-hand for starters. He might need some encouragement to give it his all against such a willowy-looking guy though. In return he could always help Haise up his pun game, he's an actual wordplay machine if you give him half a chance...

[winces]

lmskfls YES PLEASE?! let her gently concus you uwu

[historiology]

Character name: Sorey
Character journal: historiology
Skills: Navigating death traps and surviving (aka ruins and their traps/monsters lurking there), sword fighting. I guess you can also count using the Divine Weapons with his seraphim armatizing too. Which also includes the bow, gauntlets, giant frakking sword, and the pendulums.
Notes: Sorey probably wouldn't demand payment. He'd possibly also include some general survival skills too if others were interested - like hunting, reading maps, skinning and using the hide of game for things. Possibly simple sewing? idk he's pretty patient and friendly so he'd probably be willing to help anyone that might ask. He is self-taught though, so he hasn't. Actually ever received any proper training himself.

[selfimage]

Character name: Loki
Character journal: selfimage
Skills: Loki knows a wide-variety of tricksy magics, including illusion, runes, teleportation, probably stealing, etc. If it's reality warpy, he's got his hands in it. He's good at making types of sorcery understandable for those that have differences between worlds/mediums.
Notes: Any illusion-based work will start with Loki telling his bright-eyed new student to tell him a convincing lie. Since sorcery, illusion especially, stems for telling lies, those who are better at lying will be better at illusion. Loki will ask for a favor, and it's kinda side-eye to be indebted to Loki, but you know.