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[ There is a blast of static before the video feed clicks on. The only elaborate thing he owned that stood out against all the drab issued-on-arrival furniture that dotted his bare as bones suite was a cherry wood desk. Laid out on its surface was a gutted and dissected glove that looks to be made of metal and snaking cords of copper. Even behind that white wood mask he looked displeased with whatever project lay the electric glove in pieces. ]
While experimenting with finding alternate power sources for these devices in the wake of yet another series of tragedies and misfortunes, I decided to turn my attention elsewhere. Not to arsenal but to my fellow foreigners.
The divide between those who possess preternatural and even god-like abilities and those who do not is wide, and I find this distressing. While we are all unequal in the eyes of the Emperor I believe she does wish us to be capable of standing on our own two feet whenever the next cataclysmic event occurs, or whenever the supposed apocalypse fires start.
Taking time away from my free clinic in the Earth sector I will start offering to teach those with little to no formal training in the basics of martial arts: specifically, chi-blocking and hand to hand, closed quarters combat. Without demonstration I can best describe chi-blocking to the uninformed as a school of martial arts that places emphasis on temporarily rendering muscle function useless and even dampening chi or energy based powers. If nothing else, those who feel defenceless can take some initiative.
Kyle Rayner has agreed to supply rooms at EA-3B for training a small number of students at a time so I won't be far from my clinic. In the meantime I hope to attract a small student body and cooperate with anyone here who has experience in close-quarters combat and/or martial arts. It would be best to introduce something so demanding and exact as chi-blocking slowly. A sort of teacher-student arrangement.
I will be taking names of interested foreigners and answering any questions through my personal console, or in person at my clinic.
Standard encryption: private to M. Pontmercy
It's entirely up to you, but I must insist you take up these lessons.
While experimenting with finding alternate power sources for these devices in the wake of yet another series of tragedies and misfortunes, I decided to turn my attention elsewhere. Not to arsenal but to my fellow foreigners.
The divide between those who possess preternatural and even god-like abilities and those who do not is wide, and I find this distressing. While we are all unequal in the eyes of the Emperor I believe she does wish us to be capable of standing on our own two feet whenever the next cataclysmic event occurs, or whenever the supposed apocalypse fires start.
Taking time away from my free clinic in the Earth sector I will start offering to teach those with little to no formal training in the basics of martial arts: specifically, chi-blocking and hand to hand, closed quarters combat. Without demonstration I can best describe chi-blocking to the uninformed as a school of martial arts that places emphasis on temporarily rendering muscle function useless and even dampening chi or energy based powers. If nothing else, those who feel defenceless can take some initiative.
Kyle Rayner has agreed to supply rooms at EA-3B for training a small number of students at a time so I won't be far from my clinic. In the meantime I hope to attract a small student body and cooperate with anyone here who has experience in close-quarters combat and/or martial arts. It would be best to introduce something so demanding and exact as chi-blocking slowly. A sort of teacher-student arrangement.
I will be taking names of interested foreigners and answering any questions through my personal console, or in person at my clinic.
Standard encryption: private to M. Pontmercy
It's entirely up to you, but I must insist you take up these lessons.
[Voice]
[The irresponsibility is breathtaking. The young turtle can't even imagine what his own sensei would have to say, but it would be scathing. Leo knows some pretty nasty strike points but even he hasn't learned that level of discipline - and he's studied for his entire teenaged life, which as anyone knows is practically FOREVER.]
voice;
The basics of martial arts will be taught to anyone who can take instruction, but chi-blocking won't be taught indiscriminately or to anyone who would later abuse to technique. Chi-blocking isn't something taught overnight and neither is it something I would offer to just anyone.
I find it telling this has been taken with greater vitriol than when young Sabriel had gone around imbuing others with magical talents with no outside supervision. More to the point- I won't be doing this alone. This is a collaborative effort with others with expertise in the fields of martial arts and closed quarters combat. Only, and only, because there are people here with no training or means to defend themselves.
[ tl;dr Sit the fuck down. ]
Re: voice;
As for Sabriel, she doesn't have Amon's track record - or at least, Leonardo hasn't been warned of it, and he works with what he knows. But Leo's not interested in debating comparisons. Korra says Amon is bad news and Leo knows the man used blood-bending in Keeliai. Regardless of whether he can utilize that skill at the moment, Amon used it against someone who wasn't even his enemy.
Leo doesn't think that someone who would do that should be teaching anyone. Their students could make the same call.]
I hope these experts have better judgment than you. [And veto power.]
[tl;dr You're not his daddy, he'll stand if he wants to.]