fandomhighdorms | Behind the Dorms, Tuesday Afternoon

"Hey, guys," said Zack once people seemed more or less assembled for today's reserves meeting. "Since we're working on getting involved in some more in-depth exercises in the future, I thought that maybe keeping it simple today would be for the best. You more or less know one another by now, I think, but do you know how the other people here in the group work?" He grinned a bit, and then shrugged. "Unarmed sparring. Grab a partner and go at it. Don't do anything to seriously hurt your partner, though. I want to see you going for grabs and holds and light contact, but not force. We want our crew in one piece, here. And if someone does get hurt, come see me. I have potions, or else I can help haul your butt to the clinic."

The look that he was wearing was one of those very serious looks that suggested that he would be very displeased if it came down to hauling anyone's butt to the clinic, okay. And considering the bouncy puppy that he was a semester ago, it probably seemed all the more severe if you happened to know Zack.

"Before we get started, I want to announce the other two leaders who will be stepping up to help me lead the group. Jak and Kennedy both have some excellent ideas about further training exercises, and they've both agreed to take leadership roles here, and so if you see them be sure to give them a pat on the back, or at least a little respect, okay?"

Whatever your idea of respect was.

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Kennedy wasn't leaning back against the wall or a tree or anything like she'd gotten in the habit of doing, though she did have one thumb hooked into her pants pocket in her habitual pose as she occasionally paced along the area to keep an eye on how everyone was doing.

She looked a little twitchy, since she wanted to spar as much as the guys did, but-- yeah, let's face it. A touch smug, too. That was just what you got with this one. Sorry, everyone.

"Hello, Kennedy-san!" Asuna said, offering a friendly smile. "You're in the self-defense class with Faith-sensei too, right?"

Kennedy at least recognized the words; her Watcher was one of the ones who insisted on using traditional terminology during training, and that had included a crash course on the Japanese honorifics. Kennedy didn't have much patience with them herself but hey, at least she wasn't completely confused.

"Hey," she answered with an easy smile of her own. "Yeah, that's me. Asuna, right?"

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Asuna nodded, "I am. Would you prefer I just call you Kennedy?"

She's getting a lot of practice not adding honorifics to the name.

"That is ~~all the name I have augh~~ my name," Kennedy replied lightly, "but hey, whatever works for you, I'm cool with it. Unless what works for you is, like, 'dumbass' or something, that I'm not so cool with," she concluded, grinning.

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"Kennedy works," Asuna replied. "And no name calling from me! Unless you start calling me violent monkey or something like that then I might throw out a Japanese version of 'dumbass'. I can get creative with Japanese insults."

But this was said with a grin.

"And I am all about creative insults, so I might have to hit you up for a few of those sometime," Kennedy replied.

Pause.

"Not to use on you guys." Hopefully.

"We have a deal then, no creative insults." Asuna gestured towards Kennedy, "You must be really good since you're promoted!"

You'd think Kennedy would say something incredibly obnoxious at this point, and in most situations she would, but for all her smugness she really did take this seriously.

So instead, she shrugged. "I'm pretty good, yeah. Mostly, I had ideas." Which she'd have pushed for implementing one way or another, so it might be less of a headache for people this way.

"Those must have been some great ideas," Asuna remarked. "Have you been training long?"

"Since I was six, so almost eleven years now." That was said matter-of-factly, although with a touch of exasperation because really, eleven years of this and not much to show for it? Ripoff. Eh, but it was paying off in Fandom, at least. "Kinda a thing. You?"

"Same here but never really formally or seriously, I just used it to fig-- er, spar with a friend. I only took it seriously recently and mostly its Kenjutsu, sword training."

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