Salle, Monday Morning

[bitchprince]

It was just the ordinary set-up this morning: Arthur, a number of unfortunate practice dummies, a sword, and drills that were precise down to the obsessive. And Merlin, of course, although even Arthur couldn't manage to get his armor dirty every week.

He took a few more swings, focusing mainly on his footwork today.

[[ open, with the ocd of the mun's a massive dork ]]

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Deal with Arthur

[bitchprince]

Who is, you know, there. And menacing a dummy.

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Is that really necessary?" Merlin asked dubiously. And,sadly, he was not referring to the OCD.

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bitchprince]

"Yes, Merlin," he said, with a light sigh. "I can't lose my form."

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"So you bludgeon a little wooden... man shaped thing?"

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bitchprince]

"I'm not bludgeoning it," he shot back, glancing towards him. "Bludgeoning is something you do with a blunt weapon. It's entirely different."

You just keep telling yourself that, Arthur.

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Which begged the question: "...what are you doing then?"

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bitchprince]

"I'm practicing," Arthur said, "Or I was. The air isn't exactly suited for a solid place to land a blow." A pause. "Unless you're planning to don some armor again."

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin thought long and hard on that. "Perhaps Zack will come?"

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bitchprince]

"Doubtful. He hasn't been one for Monday sparring for quite a bit."

Might as well take this as a break, then.

"I think I may have scared him off with my superior skill at the sword."

... Yeah, sure, Arthur.

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"..." Merlin, respond to that. "Of course."

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bitchprince]

"Or maybe he'll walk in sometime soon for a rematch," Arthur said, walking towards the bench and casting his sword down. "I'm not going to sit around and wait."

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure he will," Merlin assured him, moving over to give him room to join.

Re: Deal with Arthur

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Why wouldn't you want to deal with Arthur? Don't answer that. Morgana could give you a better riff on it anyway.

"Morning, Arthur." Dinah headed for her practice sword, humming. Good weekend, hopefully good week ahead, whyever not?

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bitchprince]

"Dinah. Good morning," he greeted, dropping out of his drill. "I trust it finds you energized."

Re: Deal with Arthur

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Yup!" Don't bounce with the sword, Dinah. "I mean, yes. I had a good weekend." And a good week before that. "You?" Foregoing more bounciness, Dinah took a breath, and settled into one of her usual stances, going through her drill.

And then she tried that twirling around thing that Zayne showed her. Ha!

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bitchprince]

Arthur blinked. "What was that?"

Re: Deal with Arthur

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Something Zayne showed me?" Dinah said, trying not to sound uncertain. "Not that I'd use it. Unless someone was already off-balance and I needed a power-move..." She paused, trying to read Arthur's expression. "Or at all?" she guessed.

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bitchprince]

"I think you may need to learn how to judge your foe better before you employ that in actual battle," he said, thoughtfully.

Re: Deal with Arthur

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Oh. Yeah, I guess you could get suckered in there." She did it again, as fast as she could, keeping her feet steady, and came back around. "He said you had to be really, really fast with it, since you end up turning your back on your opponent in there. And that Professor Skywalker does it. But, well. He's a master." Practicing it in the salle was still fun, though. Dinah fell back into her drill, high block, low, middle, slash. "Zayne's good, he beat me last week. But it wasn't totally humiliating."

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bitchprince]

"Then I would suggest that if you do use it, practice it on an opponent you know is slower than you," he said, "Don't pull any stupid experiments."

That was Arthur's job. Anyone need someone to ride into battle with a stabwound?

Re: Deal with Arthur

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah was so going to try that on the next beginner in Fencing Club she was sure was slower. "Okay!" More footwork, and a quick sideways check to see how Arthur was doing after last night's Fight Club. No apparent injuries though, yay.

Back to concentrating. "I think this might be easier now. The footwork." Since she didn't have 10-lb weights on her legs.

Re: Deal with Arthur

[bitchprince]

"Mmm. Just don't let it slack. You're not nearly there yet," he pointed lightly towards Dinah's feet, "But I suppose you're not tripping over yourself."

Re: Deal with Arthur

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah grinned at him. That was almost a compliment! Woo! "No slacking." Another set of drills, then a speculative look at one of the attack dummies. Not the one he'd already decimated.

Use the Salle

[bitchprince]

If you don't want to deal with the blond.

OOC

[bitchprince]

Yes, I just put up OCD for the express purpose of mentioning that I love the actors on my show. So, so much. Bromance on, Colin and Bradley.

... They are very special, but they make me smile, all right?