[What's with the third degree?! He's a perfectly average human who can bench press steel into a pretzel.]
Highest honor you can get where you're from, I take it.
Now imagine your body's, your strength, your dao. Swing recklessly, you risk losing it or breaking your blade. Temper your strength and control your movement, only your target will take the brunt of your power. It's all about balance, keeping one from not tipping over to the other scale.
Not especially. There's a lot of knights. I just don't really like talking about it. I used to want to be one as a kid. Dromas and I were gonna do it together. Then he got killed and I ran from that whole thing.
You're talking about balancing the force of the strike against the recoil. However much I put into a strike I need to reinforce myself with the same amount?
Sounds good in theory but how do I 'reinforce' myself?
It's not dumbassery. Pop would just throw me into all kind of crap and tell me to figure it out, gripe if I don't make it out pristine, and do it all over again until I come out unscathed. It's mostly do or die from my experience.
[Sink or swim to its most extreme degree.]
If I'm gonna put you through the endurance strengthening exercise, I'm gonna need some prep time.
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Highest honor you can get where you're from, I take it.
Now imagine your body's, your strength, your dao. Swing recklessly, you risk losing it or breaking your blade. Temper your strength and control your movement, only your target will take the brunt of your power. It's all about balance, keeping one from not tipping over to the other scale.
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You're talking about balancing the force of the strike against the recoil. However much I put into a strike I need to reinforce myself with the same amount?
Sounds good in theory but how do I 'reinforce' myself?
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I'm sorry.
[Beat.
Darin'll see that buffering ... for a good two minutes, before finally--]
Good question.
[He doesn't know the answer to that either. Still working on the whole imparting martial percipience.]
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[Essentially saying just don't die lmao]
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I can't believe the only reason you're as resilient as I am is because you're too stupid to die.
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It's the current icon]
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[Stares at the photo.]
Screw it if stupidity is the metric I have to use to measure my life then I'm functionally immortal.
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[He means thickheaded.]
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[Is this what it's like to be everyone else?]
[He owes a lot of apologies.]
You know what? To hell with it. Doing something ill-advised and ridiculous has never stopped me before.
Teach me the Way of the Dumbass.
Where do I start?
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It's not dumbassery. Pop would just throw me into all kind of crap and tell me to figure it out, gripe if I don't make it out pristine, and do it all over again until I come out unscathed. It's mostly do or die from my experience.
[Sink or swim to its most extreme degree.]
If I'm gonna put you through the endurance strengthening exercise, I'm gonna need some prep time.
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So I just need experience.
Alright, let's do this thing. Take your time but don't hold back!
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Don't worry, I won't. Shouldn't take me long to find some ropes and large enough boulders.
[And that's what he's leaving Darin off on.
This is fine.]