It's good practice for me for fighting people who for sure aren't holding back. And good practice for you for working on just knocking people around instead of knocking their blocks off.
I'll swap out my shining staff for a normal one, and stick to weaker spells that'll just singe you or ice you over a bit.
Or we can start with weapons. Then magic, then mixing both.
[ That sounds like a reasonable order of effort, right? Though she's not entirely sure if she's being insulted by him casually stating that he'll 'hold back' for her with the weaker spells. ]
I only have one weapon and it's fairly powerful. So if you're trying to use weaker skills for my sake, that's probably going to cause problems for you. Maybe you should see what I can do before you start thinking of how to go easy on me?
Though we may want to find practice weapons. That would be a good idea.
[ There might be a tinge of old fashioned sexism behind Popp's reluctance to outright set a girl on fire... or plain sensible wariness of setting people on fire just because they say it will be fine. ]
If you want me to go harder on you, just start shrugging off everything I toss out there so I'll have to.
A wooden hammer with cloth padding is a pretty common practice weapon. If you can get a post maul from someone who sets up fences or a carpenter's mallet you're most of the way there.
[ He knows more about weaponry than he likes to own up for for Backstory Reasons. He could in theory make such a hammer, which is basic apprentice work. He also really doesn't want to. ]
The two work out some logistics, like arranging for practice weapons. Popp offers to find someone to make a proper one because Gaia doesn't really know what to ask for, and secretly makes said practice hammer. Gaia won't think to question this though she'll probably say it's nice and better than what she probably could have gotten or assembled.
The actual sparring took place in an out of the way field and would have been pretty evenly matched. Popp's general battle sense, experience and experience in training versus Gaia's variety, awkwardness in how to balance her attacks for sparring and innate skills; also given the power limitations imposed by being summoned to this world.
Plenty of showcased skills, like Gaia being able to place activation delay on her spells, shadow-infused fire and teleportation and Popp's own magic and teleportation tricks. Overall the results were a draw, and both definitely took their licks. Any argument for 'old fashioned sexism' causing this pretty much went out the window after the first exchange of blows.
Sephiroth was watching in the wings and was ready with first aid.
[ooc: If anyone wants to say they may have witnessed this, please reach out. While these two would have been focused on the fight, with Sephiroth around it's likely witnesses would have been noticed. ]
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I'll swap out my shining staff for a normal one, and stick to weaker spells that'll just singe you or ice you over a bit.
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[ That sounds like a reasonable order of effort, right? Though she's not entirely sure if she's being insulted by him casually stating that he'll 'hold back' for her with the weaker spells. ]
I only have one weapon and it's fairly powerful. So if you're trying to use weaker skills for my sake, that's probably going to cause problems for you. Maybe you should see what I can do before you start thinking of how to go easy on me?
Though we may want to find practice weapons. That would be a good idea.
no subject
If you want me to go harder on you, just start shrugging off everything I toss out there so I'll have to.
A wooden hammer with cloth padding is a pretty common practice weapon. If you can get a post maul from someone who sets up fences or a carpenter's mallet you're most of the way there.
[ He knows more about weaponry than he likes to own up for for Backstory Reasons. He could in theory make such a hammer, which is basic apprentice work. He also really doesn't want to. ]
Summary for Scene (Complete)
The actual sparring took place in an out of the way field and would have been pretty evenly matched. Popp's general battle sense, experience and experience in training versus Gaia's variety, awkwardness in how to balance her attacks for sparring and innate skills; also given the power limitations imposed by being summoned to this world.
Plenty of showcased skills, like Gaia being able to place activation delay on her spells, shadow-infused fire and teleportation and Popp's own magic and teleportation tricks. Overall the results were a draw, and both definitely took their licks. Any argument for 'old fashioned sexism' causing this pretty much went out the window after the first exchange of blows.
Sephiroth was watching in the wings and was ready with first aid.
[ooc: If anyone wants to say they may have witnessed this, please reach out. While these two would have been focused on the fight, with Sephiroth around it's likely witnesses would have been noticed. ]