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venalier · 2 years ago

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Cuts You Up [Griss & Caeldori]

twistedisciple:

“Sure, sure.” Griss nods dismissively. As long as she was going to demonstrate the technique, he didn’t care if she “honored the blade” or whatever other traditional, though impractical, steps went with it. He’s pretty sure he’d seen one of Princess Ivy’s retainers do the same, back when he was floating around Elusia’s castle with little else to do but wait for orders, so at least their respective countries’ swordmasters had that much in common. In an act of surprising deference, he takes a step back from Caeldori to give her the space she requested, but his eyes remain fixed hungrily on her blade. To their onlookers, he would merely look attentive, a perfect student in his own right. The stillness is the quiet before a thunderclap. They both move lightning-quick. The blade flashes, tastes blood. Gasps turn the rest of the heads to gape. The not-so-hapless victim, a mere two steps from where he had stood, laughs, and the scene is in motion once more. He wicks the bubbling blood from the new, shallow cut across his middle with his thumb, then licks it clean with too much enthusiasm and too little shame. “Not bad for a blunted sword.” He chuckles, refusing to let Caeldori run from his stare. “Feels better hitting a person, doesn’t it? Get to see what it takes to draw blood too.” Straw effigies didn’t offer the same sort of satisfaction. The straw wasn’t dense enough, and they couldn’t move. But more importantly, nothing came out of them either. No screams, no blood, no entrails, and none of the trauma that would send these brats fleeing from their comrades in the midst of battle because they had never seen anything but straw and cotton spill onto their feet. Griss breaks the stare to assess his wound, which is already scabbing over in a thin, rusty line. He presses on it with his forefinger. It doesn’t even sting. “Your schedule’s real cute, but it needs some changes,” he says, and then sends their awestruck audience back to their warmups with a sudden, sharp glare. “First, they’re gonna be using that sword, not the wooden ones. Anyone serious about war can’t be scared of the real deal. And besides--" he opens out his arms, "I'm still in one piece. Now, with only one sword, that means they can’t all do it at the same time, so… smash the demonstration and the practice together. One of ‘em gets up here, tries the technique, the rest watch, got it?” Smirking, he holds up three fingers. “And the last thing: they’re gonna be hittin’ each other. Or me, if Miss Teacher’s Pet is too scared they'll go cryin' to the Archbishop and she won’t get to volunteer anymore.”

she doesn’t expect impact. it rips her from her concentration with a clipped breath of alarm like those of the dozen other students staring on in disbelief, whose expressions must also be a reflection of hers too. stunned, she takes in his sudden closeness and exhilarated laughter with wide eyes, everything about his action and reaction so unexpected, she isn't even sure how she ought to react. had that been deliberate? why? what point was he trying to prove? she had told him to stay back; if it'd been a real sword— eyes flick to the quickly-drying wound on his torso, fortunately more a messy abrasion than a laceration, though no less troubling for it.

but collective shock allows him to seize control easily; he steps into command with a sudden aplomb that whiplashes back to the ferocity of moments ago, dictating an ordinance of changes to her plans. caught off guard, caeldori steps back, and it isn't until he gets to his third stipulation about trying it on each other that consternation finally returns to her brow, the pursed frown to her mouth with a quick and emphatic shake of her head. "no, that's too dangerous. —professor." she nearly forgets to add, though it's plain by now he's anything but. he's a brute and a bully; that much is clear, if nothing else, from the sneer he flings at her; and she wills that truth to mind despite the unease his fluctuating and wild mood instills. ( teacher's pet, again. always that, thrown around like an insult! )

"why would you make it even riskier? the style is already new to everyone else. nobody should be taking up a weapon at all until they learn the foundations." what would letting everyone swing a sword just to swing it hope to accomplish, without knowing how, or why? "classroom learning shouldn't be sending anyone to the infirmary, especially the instructor—"

she forces herself to bite her lip then, obviously stamping down a further, sharper rebuke, coming just short of outright disrespect.

#╰ ･ thread ✱ ∶ cuts you up.#╰ ･ griss ✱ ∶ forgive me father¸ for i have dreamed a dream where blindfold and bandage were one.#╰ ･ sword point ✱ ∶ perfection in the blood¸ twilight in the heart.#twistedisciple #jk tumblr fucking hated that OPSIJNA #back to ur regular scheduled programming lmao #caeldori trying to apply normal people logic to griss

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jaemstudies · 3 years ago

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This year my goals, not resolutions bc it holds too many connotatiosn, my goals are:

Graduate autumn sem '22

Apply to several esl programs (bonus if they include certification training)

Pull my GPA up to at least a 3.2

Try the 100 days of productivity thing that seems so popular within the study/langblr communities

Settle on a schedule for learning the three main languages I'm focusing on

Get to a level of Japanese where I'm not constantly looking up simple words like "but" or "and", memorize Kanji and katakana, have basic conversational fluency, and can read others' handwriting (essentially be where I was with German before I dropped that minor lmao)

Get to a level of korean where I can at least listen and read and understand 80-90% of what's going on

Learn basic conversational Chinese and have enough comfort to order in a restaurant

For the above three, work on my handwriting too

Be more on top of time management and knowing my schedule and also be better at managing my money UwU

Have less disordered eating habits (not an ED, I just am really bad about being regular about eating. If anyone wants to know more, hmu I'm chill with explaining it deeper)

Maybe get into Tai Chi or yoga or smth like that for like the exercise aspect that helps w mental physical emotional health etc but also just for the meditative aspect of it

Clean out my likes oh my God there's so many I need to trim that tree so to speak ajdjsnnf

I was also thinking about doing like, daily covers of songs I like to get back into the habit of singing but I think it would help me to learn the languages as well right? Bc pronouncing and learning to read Hangul/Chinese/Japanese over romanization/pinyin/romanji but also bc I want to broaden my range

It'd be cool if someone wanted to join me in the 100 days thing for like 1. Getting to know new people and 2. Having ppl hold each other accountable might be more helpful than just relying on yourself and ur own guilt? For lack of better words dnannfkandnd idk idk it's like 03:30 for me rn lmao but yeah that's what I'm thinking about for me this year <3

#jaem.text #both sides

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