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Who: Asami Sato and Suki
What: Early morning sparing and also probably some hero worship.
When: A few days after Asami arrived in Luceti
Where: The big dome.
Summary: Asami goes to meet Suki and winds up asking her to spar. Also she has possibly a small little bit of a hero worship crush on her. ~~Just a tiny one. Really tiny~~
Rating: PG? Some violence.

Asami had spoken to Suki the day she had arrived, and the Kyoshi Warrior had invited her to come to the training sessions she hosted in the morning. Asami had agreed, she'd been extremely excited just at the prospect of meeting Suki, let alone the idea of training with her! And then she had woken up...and not gone. Asami wasn't typically prone to self-doubt, she knew what she was good at, she knew who she was, and yet the idea of facing this woman that she had heard and read about her entire life, a non-bender who had helped save the world was so intimidating...and a little terrifying...that she had put it off.

Because she had to be perfect, really. She knew she was good at fighting, she'd spent enough years training to know that, but with the wings attached to her back, her balance was different, her movements were different...she had to practice. She had to make certain she could compensate for the change before she made any attempt to go and meet Suki. So she did, every morning for several days, learning to judge the extra weight, the extra wind resistance, just by herself behind the house, but after a few days she was pretty sure she had it.

That, and she couldn't keep putting it off. Eventually she'd start to feel silly, or Suki might think she had chickened out...

So she overcompensated, and today she was pretty sure she was much earlier than anyone else who would be coming. The upside of the time was that she'd managed to get her coat altered, so her violet wings fluttered from where they stuck out through her clothes, betraying her nervousness as she stepped into the building, looking around slowly.

Maybe no one was here yet?

She shifted, placing her hand on the Equalist glove that hung from her belt at the silence, and then forced it away, folding her hands behind her back instead. So far, no one here had been dangerous, and she didn't want to feel paranoid...or look like she was worried when she met Suki. She was going to meet the famous Kyoshi Warrior Suki!

Breath, Asami. She took a moment to collect herself before she headed further inside, her boots echoing on the ground.

"Hello? Is anyone here? I...think I'm early."

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"Oh." Guilty overtook Suki. The Equalist were something she hear about in passing, but didn't know much about. All she knew was she didn't like them. But more importantly, she didn't mean to bring up any bad memories. "I'm sorry. It's... it's really brave of you to stand up against that."

Suki reached over to place a friendly hand on Asami's shoulder. "I'm sure you'll put it good use though."

She smiled faintly at the hand on her shoulder. "I'm not sure brave is the right word," she said after a careful moment. "What else could I do, really?" Her options were...stand against her father being an evil jackass or...not do that. And not do that wasn't a choice at all.

"And yeah," she held up the glove and let it crackle again. "It's not the machines fault my father is being an idiot."

A slight squeeze before Suki let go of the other girl's shoulder. "Exactly."

Suki wasn't going to ask for details about the other girl's life, but judging by that description, the relationship between her and her father was not a good one.

"Let's just focus on how to use it. Do you already have a fighting style with it?"

Right, a distraction. After a moment Asami nodded, and a slow grin appeared as she settled back into the rhythm of not worrying about it.

"Yeah, I do. I mean, it's a glove, not really a weapon, so my regular fighting style just meshed pretty well with it."

All it had meant so far was that when she hit someone, they went down a lot faster.

"I would ask what style, but it might be one I haven't heard of yet." There was so much about this new world that confused Suki, and it was her own world. It felt awkward, but exciting to see these things come to past.

"Well then. Let's see what you got, future girl."

Asami grinned, but there was nervousness behind her eyes. Suki was a legend, in a way, and just having the chance to fight her was amazing. But the possibility of losing to her, of looking like an idiot, was there too. And she really, really didn't want that.

But she had to try, right? So she took a few steps away and turned, taking a relaxed, defense stance before she nodded.

"Go for it."

Suki went in to attack. None of her moves were meant to hurt Asami, just test her skills. She even threw in some easier level moves to test the other girl. All were meant to be blocked.

But Suki wasn't going completely easy on the girl. She threw in some punches that were meant to land. Hopefully they didn't, but if they did then Asami would be hit.

Asami fought defensively at first, to get a handle on how Suki would fight before she struck back. Her own motions were quick and loose once she did, and eventually, with a flushed grin on her face, she backed up several steps, holding up a hand.

"Okay, truce!" She called out.

Suki took a step back and bowed. "You did a great job. Color me impressed."

Taking a moment to slide her fans away before turning her attention back to Asami. "You have an interesting style. Certainly not one that I know, but if there was one thing I learned about traveling, I don't know a lot of things."

Asami slid her glove off and hooked it back onto her belt. The smile on her face was ridiculously wide at Suki's praise. "Thank you!"

"It's...not really a style, exactly." Asami looked a tad embarrassed. "My father wanted to make certain I could protect myself, from normal people and benders, so he had people come teach my ways to do that."

"Is the world that bad of place?" Suki couldn't help but sound worried. "I mean, I heard some things, but how awful is it in the future?"

It wasn't that she wanted to learn about her future, but rather just find out more about what was going on. She knew about probending, Amon, and the Equalist, but that didn't give her much to work with.

"...No?" Asami shrugged as she thought it over. "My father probably thinks it is, but he's..." She trailed off, frowning. "Well. No. I actually love Republic City. And everything about it. I mean, it has its problem...everywhere does. But it's my home. I wouldn't change it."

"That's good." Suki didn't feel as worried as before. It would've been sad to know that the place Aang and Zuko set up was falling apart. "And I'm happy people like you are there too. It would be awful to think that the place Zuko and Aang built didn't work out."

"It has worked. Wonderfully, honestly. I mean, it's a city so there's corruption and such, but most of the time benders and non-benders, and people from all four tribes, live together in...relative harmony."

Most of the time.

That made her smile, and brightly at that. It was nice to hear that the place wasn't awful. Yeah, maybe it wasn't perfect, but that's to be expected. All that matters is that Aang's and Zuko's vision worked, and it made her excited to live it out.

"That's great. And I know Aang would be so happy to hear that." Now she felt a bit awkward, but, "Do you know anything about the Kyoshi Warriors?" She was expecting a no, but she just had to ask.

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Asami shook her head. "I've heard of them, of course but...that's all."

She waved her hands to let Asami know it was alright. "It's no big. I'm happy you at least heard of them. I just hope they're still making a difference in the world, that's all."

"I'm sure they are," Asami grinned. "So, anyway...wanna try this again?"

She was going to do better this next spar, Suki.

"Of course. It'd be an honor." And Suki bowed. "Until next time?"

"Yeah. I'll be here for those...you said you meet in the mornings, right?" Even as she was getting ready to walk off..

"Yup! See you soon."

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handwave their spar?

Works for me.

<3

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So I think we can probably wrap this up?

sounds good <3

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