generalflirt | Appointments Post ( II )

As pleased as I would be to have Katara beside me as long as possible, I don't really need her help for this one. Why don't you go together?

[Because I think Katara ought to see Soren and Ikki bonding]

[Katara rolled her eyes lightly, though it was with a sick and twisty feeling in her stomach.]

I'd be happy to watch.

[ That earns Katara a huge smile from her granddaughter, who reaches out to take her hand in order to tow her over to the area away from the delicate machinery. Soren follows, settling down and watching them expectantly. ]

Okay, so! Focus Energy? Focusing your energy for...what? [ She scrolls to that entry and there are definitely words about hit ratios (what is a ratio?) and such, but they're pretty much nonsense to Ikki. She ignores the nonsense in favour of Soren, figuring he'll know what it means better than she will, anyway.

He does! And it takes only a second to figure out a way of showing the two benders, because hey this is fun. The first thing Soren does - facing away from the machines - is what Ikki recognizes at this point as Air Slash. He'll just check over his shoulder that they saw that. Were you guys watching? Cool, right? Yep, he's got that down.

Then there's a move she hasn't seen, which consists of a sort of...light shimmery thing? Uh. Soren seems to be concentrating, and it takes about as long as the last move did. Ikki's about to ask another question when he does Air Slash again - and it looks a bit more oomph-y. ]

...Ooooooooh. So it...focuses you for another airbending thing...?

[He's still somewhat offput that she is referring to it as "airbending." But hey, she's seven. Lalala, programming over here. He'll have to lecture her on types later]

[Hmm hmm.]

It does look like he's focusing his energy to apply the move with even greater power - it's probably got something to do with gathering his chi to a certain point.

[ SHOCKINGLY, no one has ever tried to lecture Ikki on pokemon types. Chien just sort of. Went with her "airbending" terminology. ]

Like meditating! [ Well. Kinda. Usually that does not happen before during or after any meditation she's familiar with, but. ]

"Mirror Move" an' "Mimic" are two other ones that seem weird. [ "weird" meaning "I have no idea what they're actually supposed to do". ...Unfortunately for Soren, those moves aren't really demonstrable solo. ]

Soren, would you mind playing with Linda a bit to demonstrate those?

[Still at the console... Those two moves - he looked into them after his battle with Chien, and now he reaches to his pocket, kisses the pokeball and pops out Linda.

Linda appears in a flash of red light. She normally would be okay with being in the ball this long, but right now to be confronted this ugly sack of feathers?! And she wasn't even allowed to shit talk him? That's infuriating. So when she appears out of the ball she immediately Magnet Rises in the air to get comparatively above Ikki, Soren, and Katara to adopt a haughty, imperial, pose.

...To her credit though, she doesn't yet attack. Even if she's looking down her nose at Soren right now and sort of wants to. Less because she hates her rival there, and more because she wants to re-assert her dominance after all the praising she's been hearing through her ball]

[Another internal sigh at Linda's attitude, and Katara wonders just how this would impact Ikki training Soren.

But, you know, she knows how to deal with this.]

We'd really appreciate the help, Linda.

We would! [ Ikki chimes in cheerfully, although her attention is mostly on Soren, who definitely looks less than happy with this turn of events. Ikki seems to be the only person in this little group who actually has no issues of any sort with anyone else, and the look Soren gave her for saying she'd like the help was a little bit annoyed.

She did realize that Chien and Soren thought of Masaomi and Linda as rivals and/or some sort of enemy ("selfish jerk" had come up in conversation before) but Ikki herself didn't really have any particular dislike for either. She'd told Linda at the beach that she was amazing, and that hadn't really changed, even if she'd always landed more on the side of rooting for Soren.

...She should probably say something, huh? ] Soren?

[ ugh fine okay give him a second. This is a one-time thing Linda. 8| Only because the airbending buddy asked. ]

[Whatever bro. She folds her arms before sighing and dropping to the ground in front of Soren. She waves a hand at him.]

Soren, how about Mimic first. That'll take longer anyway.

[Because Mirror Move and Mimic are almost identical except for a slight nuance. Mirror Move is an immediate copy of the last attack the opponent threw at you. It could be used on the fly and changes based on what the enemy does. The goal of them move is to throw something right back in the enemy's face.

Mimic, meanwhile... is meant to mimic an enemy's move so temporarily learn it.]

I'm not going to tell her to attack, but try to mimic what she does.

[Working as he thinks he understand this move, when he makes a hand motion to Linda to tell her simply charge up her electricity to ready for a thundershock or spark. He's not sure (given type weaknesses) Soren can actually mimic the charging or not, but if it does he should be able to coat himself in a faint glow and manipulate his internal energy to emulate the charging to make his own thundershock.

...Linda, at least, thinks that this'll hurt him though. Hence why she smirks nastily at him while she's sparking lightly]

[Katara just watches carefully.]

[ That little smirk doesn't catch Ikki's eye - she's focused on Soren entirely - but Soren himself sees it. That's why he doesn't really think it through too much - if that would have even helped - but follows what Masaomi said, attempting to mimic the pikachu.

He does begin to start glowing, but then there's a squawk and the energy abruptly fizzles out. Ikki takes half a step forward before stopping - never go near someone who lost control of their bending - and hovering anxiously, while Soren himself is stunned for a few moments. ]

Soren! Sifu, what happened?

A limitation in the move, I guess... [He frowns. He was probably being rude to Soren, doing that. Linda looks proud that Soren couldn't handle her power. Haha.

Masaomi isn't really looking at the scene now, instead fiddling with some dials over here]

You see, mimic is a move where a pokemon tries to change their own energy to use other pokemon's moves. In theory, Soren should have been able to copy Linda's electricity, and possibly even produce his own Thundershock.

[And now he turns to face the bird and the two girls] But, it's harder for him to copy an electric move. Do you know why, Ikki?

[Let's see if Chien ever mentioned weaknesses.

...Fortunately, this was only a small jolt. Soren probably ~~lost 20 or 30 HP~~ was comparatively barely hurt. Linda, for her part, stops her charging through. She tilts her head at the bird and makes a little piii sound. It's a rough questioning, but she's asking if he's alright? ]

[Still just here, listening, watching.]

[ Yeah, yeah, he's fine, Linda. That shock was nothing, barely even static electricity. Insert more bird boasting here. But he does shake himself and gives Ikki a somewhat more comforting trill of reassurance. ]

...No? [ Taking her eyes off of Soren, Ikki frowns a little, baffled. Chien never mentioned weaknesses, nope. Still, she gives it as much thought as she can. ] ...Because it makes flying harder?

That's close, actually. [and now he fiddles with some more dials here, grinning to himself as he looks away once more to follow the two out of the corner of his eyes.

Linda meanwhile shrugs. Well, good, as long as you're not dead from that, putz.

But as for Masaomi] Okay, Ikki, just as there are four elements in your world, for pokemon, there are something like elements. But they're called "types" - every move a pokemon can make has a type, and every pokemon has one or two "types" which are their core essence. You've probably noticed the labels looking through your pokedex earlier, right?

Soren's says "normal" and "flying". [ That's as much a confirmation as it is a question.

Something occurs to her, and she points the pokedex at Linda this time. There's a new screen of information, now. ] ...And Linda's electric!

Exactly! Now, unlike the elements of your world, every type is specifically strong or weak against a series of other types. For example, Linda - who's essence is electricity - is weak against "ground" type moves. But as a flying type - Soren will often not even be hurt by ground type moves at all, because he can fly away from the Earth.

[ Just like she could probably fly away from earthbending herself - although not against, say, Aunt Toph. ]

So you're saying that Soren is weak against electricity? [ He doesn't like it said all blunt like that, but yes, you got the gist of it, kid. ]

That's right. He's also weak against a two other types, as a flying type - Ice and Rock, specifically.

[He studied up for his fight with Chien, even if Linda couldn't have learned any rock or ice moves. Not to mention Silver drilled him on learning his types, considering them a basic skill of being a trainer. To that end - and because he is confident he has this simulation finished, he turns to look at Ikki front on again]

[ Ice, Rock, and flying. Ikki tries to commit those to mind, nodding, and then pauses. ] Rock and Ground are different types?

Mmmhm. [He rolls his shoulders, shrugging] There's actually seventeen types in all. I won't expect you to remember all of them from this one recitation, but I'm going to list them to you now, so listen well, okay?

[He pauses here, to make sure she's focusing on listening and only listening]

[ Ikki nods, once. She's got a decent memory, but this definitely sounds like something she's going to have to recite at home a lot, especially if she's going to have to know how they're strong or weak or...anything.

Masaomi has her complete and utter attention. Hopefully it isn't disconcerting. ]

[...Actually he feels a surge of pride. his mentee. his student. His kouhai. his smile perks up again, become sincere and genuine]

Electric, ground, rock, steel, flying, water, fire, grass, poison, dark, psychic, ghost, bug, fighting, ice, dragon and... normal

[ why are there so many elements. Electric is Linda, Flying and Normal is Soren, and Ice and Rock are bad for Soren (as is Electric). Ground can be Bolin, because if Aunt Toph is anything she's steel, and Katara is water and Uncle Zuko will be fire and grass - grass can be Lee because it's really green, which makes poison...Uncle Sokka, because he ate so many sweets he made himself sick, and dark will be Shikamaru because of shadowbending, ghost will be grandpa, bug will be Shino who she's never met but who they live inside of, and fighting is Korra and dragon has to be Uncle Roku.

If she fixes the names on people, it's a lot easier to try and keep them all inside her head. Linda Soren Bolin Aunt Toph Katara Uncle Zuko Lee Uncle Sokka Shikamaru grandpa Shino Korra Uncle Roku. ]

...'Kay!

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