Kratos Aurion (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
simulsimul) wrote2016-11-02 07:40 pm
simulsimul) wrote2016-11-02 07:40 pm
a thing; w/ ruinsprofessor & conductingresistance
canon
breached
confessed
dadly
future
grigori
mercenary
MEover
origin
reversal
titans
scenario list
canon: Kratos needs to stop running off
confessed: wing reflex
confessed: actual wingpull
confessed: turning Renegade
confessed: son meets father
dadliness: confrontation
dadliness: awakening
dadliness: illness
dadliness: a fundamental lack of understanding on the word 'abducted'
dadliness: updating parameters
dadliness: assassination assignation
mercenary: hiding in the library
mercenary: aftermath of librarian saviour
reversal: oracle destroyed
titans: storming the tower
titans: safety in the canyon
titans: night horrors
canon
- combo of Kratos and Zelos ending
- Zelos does the stupid thing, but not so far as his death, and is still the eighth member of the party to Derris-Kharlan.
scenarios
scenario one: Yuan tracks Kratos down at Dirk's.
breached
- canon right up until after Botta’s death
- no one uses Yuan’s name around Mithos so Mithos walks right into the Triet base with them
- cue an epic OH SHIT in which Yuan gets a lil bit beat up while covering the evacuation of the rest of the base
- until Kratos appears to intervene and have the Chosen group get Yuan out of there
- Mithos gets Kratos tho and he’s a bit mad cos, yanno, traitor and all
- time to be locked up and punished and need to be rescued
- kind of puts a crimp in the creation of the Eternal Ring plans
- mostly cos Mithos turns Kratos lifeless, with some armour to regulate his mana so he remains a seraph. can't have the seal becoming less powerful, yo
- it does mean he can only obey orders tho
- the first rescue fails miserably but at least no one dies and they know they need to reforge his key-crest
- the second rescue attempt (circumstances of canon-point under percolation) goes a little better, though Yuan almost gets killed by Kratos trying to attach the key-crest
- luckily that and the first telepathy in a while gets through and Kratos manages to break out a la Colette, and heal Yuan enough for Raine to get there
- after which, angreh father-son beatdown on Mithos.
scenarios
None yet.
confessed
- almost successful assassination lands Kratos as an injured stranger in Iselia (1-2 years pre-canon)
- recuperation leads to accidental-on-purpose 'holiday' in Iselia
- doubts result in a request for Dirk to make a key-crest like Kratos' own
- oracle room undergoes some stealth sabotage
- regeneration journey is slightly delayed, prompted by Genis and Lloyd being discovered at the ranch
- Triet is awkward. so very awkward. for the Renegades -- whose side is Kratos even on these days and why was he vanished for two years?
- initial overall journey similar to canon, save that Kratos is a bit less circumspect about advising Colette on how to cope with angel transformations
- there are more overt Dun Wanna Feelings
- then Luin, wherein things happen and the group is in town during the Desian attack. the others naturally want to fight but tis a mite difficult against an army and building-destroying magitech. luckily, angel on their side. unluckily, wingpulls in order to muster the power to cover the townspeoples' retreat
- questions and confessions ensue
- Colette rejects the key crest (for the moment) so there's still hopefully maybe ambiguity about Kratos's position re the last seal
- it wouldn't fit anyway, it's modelled for the hand like Kratos's is because he was a derp and did not specify otherwise, so Lloyd needs to make a thing to make it fit
- slow protective retreat toward Asgard.
scenarios
scenario one: Kratos confesses before Salvation; Raine wants to follow up.
scenario two: Raine's examination of an angel; and also Kratos realises how far he's put his foot in it.
scenario three: Kratos goes to taunt Yuan a little, and also ask for his help.
scenario four: in which Raine makes Kratos tell the children all the things, and Yuan takes too much amusement from it.
dadliness
- Kratos retires in Iselia under the name Irving to raise Lloyd after the death of his wife
- no exsphere. ageing occurs! so does a beard and a braid
- teaches Lloyd swordplay, but on the sly, to avoid the other villagers noticing. his daytime job is weaving
- Lloyd finds the box of their exspheres and wants details. after some prodding by Dirk, Kratos explains how exspheres are made and that one is Anna's life. Lloyd is too young yet, but when Lloyd comes of age (~15) Kratos lets him make his own decision re wearing it
- Lloyd chooses not to wear the exsphere
- Genis befriends Marble and Lloyd meets her, as in canon; this happens before the journey begins, with the fallout
- difference being that Colette is still in the village so they can't be too horrible, so they just demand Lloyd be turned over for a flogging
- Kratos stands in his stead because natch. luckily, they're only mooks and don't recognise the bearded weaver as anyone important
- gives Lloyd his guilt complex early tho
- the oracle happens much the same way except Botta doesn't quite recognise the weirdly familiar bearded swordsman
- he does when he's reporting to Yuan tho
'there was an exceptionally skilled human'
/brief physical description/
/did x other faintly recognizable thing/
and both he and Yuan are aware that Kratos has been awol for a while, so there's a moment of pure silence and dawning 'no, it couldn't be'
- but then obviously one of them has to go make sure
- cue an interruption just out of Triet.
scenarios
scenario one: Yuan feels the need to investigate; this results in Kratos injured and abducted.
scenario two: Yuan realises he can't kill Kratos with his own two hands; Kratos gets mothered.
scenario three: Kratos gets sick on the heels of his recovery. Yuan mothers him some more. Botta disapproves.
scenario four: Kratos recovers and makes an escape attempt. Sort-of.
scenario five: Kratos recovers more and talks to Botta, when not needling Yuan about his lack of preparedness.
scenario six: Sheena's contract takes a slight shift into undercover instead of assassination work.
future
- Aselia is Earth ~10,000 years in the past
- all is peachy-keen except the tree is now underground and the elvens/half-elves/some humans are in hiding in the centre of the planet, hidden thanks to the summon spirits
- Colette is working with humanitarian aid in various impoverished nations
- Zelos is a diplomat in West Asia / Middle East trying to keep the peace
- Yuan is a crotchety lecturer at Cambridge who's also HUGE into environmentalism
- Lloyd and Kratos are having family time in space
- occasionally the trio on Earth meet reincarnations of people they used to know
- but rarely at the same time and almost never in a position where they meet
- but then they start meeting them
- lots of them
- all in the same span of years
- they're starting to think something's hinky
- until the space-elves attack
- and then they know something is hinky.
scenarios
None yet.
grigori
- at some point significantly before canon, Kratos actually calls it quits
- the Church's institution calls him a fallen angel of vengeance
- really he's just going around trying to help people and avoiding being taken back to Cruxis
- assigns himself to the Chosen parties whenever he can, up to Colette
- ????? idk some kind of profit somewhere
scenarios
None yet.
mercenary
- when Yuan visits Kratos at the beach when Lloyd is 3 months old, he does not manage to escape before Anna and Lloyd return
- accidental attachment to this kidlet who likes pulling his hair
- three years later, Yuan can't stand to hold back while Kratos fights Kvar, so he throws caution to the wind to help
- Anna is still killed but they rescue Lloyd and Noishe and both are branded as traitors
- Lloyd is raised as a Renegade with Dad, Uncle Yuan and the extremely reticent Uncle Botta (how dare)
- meanwhile in Tethe'alla Yuan infiltrates the castle as the library archivist
- stays out of sight, mostly, but has a good ear around the politics thanks to recruiting Princess Hilda
- also happens to stumble on Zelos hiding in the library right after his mother's death
- look he's got a 'nephew' he can't just do nothing (even if all he meant was to recommend a book)
- unwittingly accidentally 'adopts' the Tethe'allan Chosen by virtue of being the only one who doesn't treat him like the Chosen
- sometimes Kratos brings Lloyd to visit and basically they're all separate pairs of exasperated bros
- by canon Lloyd and Kratos are wandering mercenaries, helping people on the sly while gathering intel to send back to the Renegades
- Yuan and Zelos are actively building resistance to the Church using inside knowledge
- the ninja are all Renegades
- Colette is escorted by Raine and by the priests
- yes the 'chain up the Chosen and drag her to every seal if necessary' priests
- she meets Lloyd randomly in Triet but Lloyd doesn't know her as the Chosen. they're a bit out of touch on the Journey of Regen timeline
- stuff happens and they keep missing each other up until Palmacosta, which is a warzone between the Desians (and Dorr as their figurehead) and the Renegades (with Neil as their leader)
- Colette wants to help; priests say no
- out come the chains
- Raine objects, but she has no exsphere so what can she do
- btw Genis got caught in the Iselian ranch and tossed in as a traitor to be made a host
- he gets sent to the Palmacosta ranch
- right after Neil manages to take the city, after Colette and Raine leave it, Botta takes the Palmacosta ranch and rescues Genis, among others
- Genis becomes his little shadow and is much preferable to Lloyd, in Botta's opinion
- Lloyd and Kratos are still trying to catch up to Colette to rescue her when they drop by
- Genis hears what they're trying to do and insists on coming along.
scenarios
scenario one: in which Yuan accidentally adopts a Chosen instead of a book from a library.
scenario two: in which Yuan is accidentally-deliberately adopted by the Meltokio Castle Knights.
MEover
- Mass Effect crossover someplace in the realm of 15,000 years after TOS canon
- except started before then, cos elves are really from Feros, planet of the cranky telepathic plant
- got decimated by the protheans trying to assimilate them into their empire
- elves objected, got killed a lot, fled Feros and got stuck in Aselia's orbit
- kinda forgot a few things but planted a seed from the Ferosian mother plant on Aselia
- Origin hasn't forgotten tho, kinda has a grudge against grumblegrumbleprotheansgrumble
- the entirety of TOS happened, and then some
- Kratos, Yuan, Lloyd, Colette and Zelos are the only ones left, but tis okay, they have each other
- somethingsomething natural space disaster, Aselia is destroyed but they manage to move Yggdrasill onto Derris-Kharlan and do a quarian by becoming a roaming ship
- mana is a variant of eezo lbr
- Derris-Kharlan's too big to use the mass relays, but c'mon it generates its own mass effect field so they develop tech to do hops on their own
- they're in no hurry tho, i mean lbr primarily angelic, elf and half-elf population
- so they're just bumming around their local clusters doing thorough investigations on all the things
- so much eezo on their ship
- so much
- suddenly the Normandy running from a reapers comes along to hide behind them
- reapers start shooting
- everyone on Derris-Kharlan objects
- JUDGEMENT IN SPACE
- so much profit and judging of reapers.
scenarios
None yet.
origin
- Kratos tells Lloyd the dad thing in Triet
- dad and son feelings ensue
- they culminate at the Tower of Salvation in Kratos stabbing Yggdrasill in the back
- unfortunately he does not quite die but impales Kratos against a wall and goes berserk on the Chosen party to the point of Yuan stepping in to help
- that is, by threatening to stab Kratos in the back while he's vulnerable (with Kratos's permission)
- Yggdrasill calls his bluff and fails, and Yuan does the thing
- while Yggdrasill is distracted the Chosen's group nail him but good and he retreats
- luckily while heart-stabbing happened, Kratos's cruxis crystal is still intact, and between Raine's healing and Yuan's mana transfusion he survives long enough to be taken to the Triet base and a refresher
- stuff happens in some fashion or other up until opening Origin's seal
- as it turns out, the mana tranfusion has fused the lock, so to speak, and Kratos can't unlock the seal even voluntarily
- only way to get Origin out at this point is to let him fuse with Kratos, so Kratos becomes Origin
- stipulation of this: Kratos refuses to let go of his humanity
- luckily Yuan already has a literal bond with him thanks to the mana transfusion, so with him as his summoner Kratos can keep his humanity, and only use Origin's powers when Yuan summons them
- commitment like woah for a literal eternity
- but hey, they messed up but good and it's the only way they can reunite the worlds.
scenarios
none yet.
reversal
~ 2000 years in, Kratos and Yuan conspire to kill Mithos and succeed, sorta
- he's stuck inside his exsphere, possessing people
- but he manages to survive and while Kratos and Yuan claim Derris-Kharlan for their base, he takes most of the angels as 'fallen', as well as the Eternal Sword
- most of his bases are hidden behind dimensional slips created by the sword - Iselia included
- Origin refuses to trust either Kratos or Yuan with the job, anyhow, and they don't have a summoner
- instead they're forced to fight Cruxis, embroiling the worlds in an angelic war between Cruxis and the new organisation of Chayim
- the Chosen bloodlines are more important to Cruxis than Chayim, but Mithos seals the seals so only the Chosen bloodline can flip the mana switch. Kratos and Yuan need someone to do that until they can reunite them, so the Journey remains an institution, just without compulsory death at the end
- there is angelification tho, if only so Chayim gets more soldiers and so the Chosen can defend themselves against Cruxis
- Kratos sends Anna and Lloyd to Iselia, because even though enemy territory, it's the safest place there is for them
- Anna get word to Kratos that the Desians are using Iselia as a long-term cruxis crystal cultivation location, and that the sword is held there
- her spy succeeds but is intercepted, and Mithos locks down the dimensional slip to prevent exit and access by angels for ~15 years
- Lloyd grows up in a town with a heavy half-elf population and believing he's training to help the good guys
- he has his own cruxis crystal as a host, but doesn't tell his mother due to the faith-based propaganda encouraging hosts not to bring it up or risk the powers not taking
- he wants to help though, so he steals a key-crest to ensure he can fight
- Yuan and Kratos plan to assault the town and shrine but Mithos uses the sword to interrupt travel between worlds, keeping Yuan in Tethe'alla and forcing Kratos to attack Iselia alone.
scenarios
scenario one: Iselia is attacked by Chayim to claim the sword, with the sword already gone
titans
- Yggdrasill captures Kratos before Kvar finds Anna and Lloyd, but after Kratos makes an Eternal Ring
- Yuan figures hell no and raises the Renegades to try and take Derris-Kharlan, rescue Kratos and solve the split-world problem
- the attack fails. a lot.
- Renegades are wiped out, Kratos is still in Cruxis's hands, but Yuan manages to escape with the Eternal Ring
- Cruxis follows him to Triet base, which gets destroyed and the few remaining Renegades scatter
- Botta is still around tho, helping out how he can
- mostly Yuan just goes searching for Lloyd and Anna
- doesn't manage to find them before Kvar does tho, and Kratos hears from Yggdrasill that they're dead
- this is slightly inaccurate, cos Lloyd still winds up rescued by Dirk in Iselia
- where Yuan eventually finds him, not knowing that he's 'supposed' to be dead
- so Yuan settles in Iselia for a bit to watch Lloyd and the Chosen
- cuts and dyes his hair, the whole shebang
- learns how to carpentry, invents a new use of magic
- winds up being Genis's role model just because scholar and magic-user and half-elf who can pass but also takes no shit from people
- is one of Colette's companions on the Journey when it starts
- he's been challenging their understanding of the Church's institution this whole time lbr
- Sheena is still a thing because the ninja have taken over the Tethe'allan base, which has survived, somewhat
- a grilling ensues
- sometime just after the Asgard Ranch Yuan does have to drop the bombshell
- about how the Journey is just a front, he and his bestie are angels, btw his bestie is Lloyd's dad
- how they're out to topple the institution of religion
- forget sacrificing Colette for the Regeneration, when they get to the seal they can do that without anyone dying
- and then move straight on to rescuing Kratos in Derris-Kharlan
- then they get to the Tower and realise Yggdrasill has Kratos under a Prometheusesque punishment a la 'impaled on the Eternal Sword to suffer the Seed's pain and watch the Chosen get murdered'
- luckily this does not happen, as they manage to rescue him and escape Yggdrasill instead, barely
- retreat to Botta's hiding-place in Asgard so Kratos can recover
- and also find out that Lloyd is actually alive
- the Chosen group goes around to make as many pacts as they can while in Sylvarant
- they get up to Aska when Yggdrasill sends his angels to attack Asgard
- cue Yuan and Kratos being unstoppable battle gods together
scenarios
scenario one: in which Yuan leads the Chosen's party to the Tower of Salvation to dismantle all the traditions ever, and find Kratos waiting for them in serious need of a rescue.
scenario two: in which being in safety reveals that Kratos is not precisely unscathed, but he's doing his best.
scenario three: in which Kratos is emphatically not okay, but with Yuan's help, could be.
no subject
[He takes some small gratification from Kratos leaning into his touch. See, Kratos? Taking care of your hair isn't so terrible.]
Then you will be profoundly grateful for how manageable it's become, I assume.
[Yuan is entirely aware Kratos was going to finish that sentence differently. He's helping. He keeps at what he's doing, though, not done yet, being thorough and gentle.]
no subject
[But after a moment, he does rouse a response, if slightly lazier than he meant. He'd forgotten how nice it was, to be tended like this; and gentleness is rare enough in Yuan that every instance is to be remembered.]
I don't need luxurious hair, Yuan. You're the one with luxurious hair. We don't need two of us concerned for the state of our hair.
no subject
[Eventually snipping at each other returns.]
I despair of luxurious with you. I will settle for not looking like it's about to eat your head. You shouldn't resemble a mandragora, Kratos.
Can you lean far enough back for me to rinse your hair without hurting yourself again?
[It falls short of acerbic.]
no subject
[He doesn't have flowers growing out of his head, for one thing. But Kratos does attempt to fulfill that request. The problem is that, to avoid wetting the bandages, there's only so many ways he can lean back; and they all involve the use of his elbows, which stretches muscles even less inclined to be stretched than just his arms. He does try, but his shoulders complain before his elbows get very far back, and it makes his breath catch; it takes him a moment to lever himself back up.]
No.
[With a sigh Kratos tilts his head back further, eyes firmly shut.]
Let's get the drowning over with, then.
no subject
[Vast mane and serpent tail both. No wings, though.]
[Yuan gives Kratos the room to try, and eventually sighs in turn. There was a reason he did that first, after all, aside from just petty vengeance.]
[Still. Perhaps he can endeavor to be a little more careful. He reaches for the basin again, scooping up water and pouring more carefully over Kratos's hair. This happens a few times, Yuan being more mindful of Kratos's eyes than he was before, and stops only when he's satisfied.]
This is nowhere near drowning, Kratos.
no subject
[Kratos opens his eyes and shakes his head slightly to feel the weight of his wet hair. As he recalls, Yuan has an extreme distaste for braiding wet hair, so that can only happen once he's left; but Kratos isn't quite done in the bath.]
I can manage the rest until I get out, I think. I'll just need help with the braiding.
[As if Yuan hasn't been doing the braiding every time since Kratos arrived.]
no subject
Spite.]I didn't think you could lean back far enough.
[And, as it happens, he was right.]
[Yuan's hands hover, don't quite settle, for a moment more; then he stands, turning and going to put the basin away.]
I assume you can be trusted alone in the bathroom for a few minutes.
no subject
[Point and counterpoint of snippishness is, at least, familiar. Kratos notices the way that Yuan leans toward a reassuring touch, but doesn't reach it; and that too is familiar, in its own way.]
I'm sure I can avoid getting into trouble.
[This, dryly, as Kratos sinks back against the tub, and down into the water. He's going to take advantage of the hot water, and does -- making sure to stretch each of his muscles beneath the surface of the water, as best as he can; relaxing for a time to let the temperature soothe those same muscles. He may need another bath tonight, or in the morning, but it'll heal.
[The next time he needs a shave may be a problem, but they can approach that when they get there.
[Eventually Kratos sits up again, stretching, testing himself. Muscles still complain but he can move more easily without anything catching, enough that he manages to get out of the tub, if carefully, without the need of aid.]
no subject
[He's going to maintain that. At least for the sake of grumping and snipping back and forth. That's almost more familiar than anything else.]
For a few minutes.
[Yuan isn't sure Kratos can avoid getting into trouble, or what he'd qualify as trouble, for longer than that. All the same he steps toward the bathroom entrance, intending to wait just outside for either Kratos or the sounds of things being dropped, flung, or otherwise broken.]
[Outside he leans against the wall and studies the walls, arms folded.]
no subject
It occurs that this might have all been much easier if I'd gone to the medical wing.
[But then they'd have had people questioning what happened. Not that they won't be, with this; but for all they know, it could be an escape attempt gone wrong.]
no subject
You can still go to the medical wing, if you really feel the need.
[And explain. And deal with more people clucking at him. If Kratos really wants to...]
[Yuan has the same careful briskness to his braiding this time as ever, and he opts for a pattern he's used before, something simple but indicative. The time passes quickly enough.]
There. Are you ready to go?
no subject
[Having to explain to a group of people who look up to Yuan, but most likely don't know anything about the seal, is far too complicated to manage without making things worse. At least by simply not mentioning it, any fumbling will be mitigated.
[The only change today is that Kratos regularly shifts slightly, stretching what muscles he can without actually preventing Yuan from finishing the braid. When Yuan pronounces him ready, Kratos rises and stretches again, full-bodied and testing. Everything aches, but it doesn't hamper, and doesn't make his breath catch, and after a moment he nods.]
Yes; I believe I'll be fine for what we've planned.
[The leg stretches, and the slow unarmed patterns.]
Are we stopping by your room first?
[Since Yuan is joining him, and not precisely dressed for it yet.]
no subject
Yes. It won't be long.
[He's going to have to make Kratos wait for him, though; he doesn't trust Kratos to make his way there on his own.]
Let's go.
[There's one last measuring look at Kratos, considering any number of things, before Yuan turns on his heel and leaves the room as though he simply expects Kratos to follow. Which he does.]
no subject
[Kratos does, in fact, follow, nodding to the guards outside the door.]
We're going to the training room. You're welcome to join us, if you wish.
[The training room is one of the few times his guards are able to relax while guarding him, he's aware; there's usually always someone there, which means he's less likely to do anything he shouldn't. It's something of an unspoken compromise for forcing them to put up with him.
[On this occasion, the 'we' makes them exchange glances, while carefully not looking at the bandages peeking out from under Kratos's sleeves.]
no subject
[Yuan does wish Kratos wouldn't be quite so lenient with his soldiers; but Kratos is the one doing some of the teaching. Also, fighting to maintain authority in public does exactly the opposite.]
[So Yuan ignores the entire exchange in favor of heading back to his rooms, leaving it up to the guards to follow or not, and ensuring only that Kratos is inside the room before he goes to change into something a little more suited for what they have planned.]
no subject
[He probably won't be long. Kratos glanced around with a more considering eye. He pauses for a moment on the picture of Martel, and then bows to it. If he could speak to it without Yuan hearing, he would; but he thinks at it instead: For your eyes only, Martel.
[Inside of a minute he has Yuan's bed stripped and remade, short-sheeted. Martel would appreciate the chance to see Yuan fumble half-clothed, Kratos knows. Then he goes to Yuan's bookcase, flipping through some of the books as though that's where he's been the whole time.]
no subject
You're free to borrow some of those, if you like.
[He doubts he'll be able to catch Kratos out if he genuinely was doing something amiss, anyway.]
We should be going, unless you mean to read instead.
no subject
[He says it mildly, but the door, after all, is still opened a crack, and he knows how well voices can carry. Kratos returns the book to the shelf and moves for the door; and sure enough, the guards outside snap back to attention from giving each other startled looks.
[Kratos smiles to himself and exits the room, moving unconcerned toward the training room, much in the same way Yuan had exited Kratos's room with the expectation that Kratos was following.]
no subject
[This is the proper response after a few seconds of instinctive annoyed prickling. Yuan makes a note to come up with some way to thank Kratos for implying unfortunate things about his reading tastes to the entire base, if indirectly.]
[...Some of those things are true.]
You could look a shelf over.
[But they're moving now, and Yuan frowns briefly at Kratos's retreating back; there's no graceful way to do this. He nods to the guards, indicating Kratos, and then takes his time in following.]
no subject
[This is thrown unconcerned over his shoulder as Kratos moves through the hall. It looks almost as if he has an entourage, or does at first; when Kratos reaches the training-room he notices that Yuan has fallen far enough behind so as to be entirely divorced from Kratos and his guards. By design, most likely, to avoid the appearance of trailing after Kratos.
[The training-room has always been a ceasefire zone. Kratos nods to his guards and proceeds to begin some basic stretches; while his guards, in turn, relax enough to take a seat and watch. A few of those using the room glance over, but Kratos shakes his head. Training others will have to wait, for today.
[He ignores any second glances given to the bandages on his wrists.]
no subject
[Yuan watches Kratos go, and casually stretches his pace out, to the end that he arrives in the training room nearly a minute after Kratos does.]
[He takes his own moment to survey the training room, nodding shortly in acknowledgment, before going to the patch of ground Kratos has claimed for himself. Yuan's own tactic is to completely ignore any gazes after the first acknowledgment, since by Kratos's decision this isn't a time for teaching. It's a room for training, each to their own. They'll cope.]
You do remember unarmed patterns, don't you?
no subject
[It's a casual admission, even while in the middle of a careful stretch. All his stretches are careful, together, and he makes sure to hold them longer than usual; it's difficult to tell when his muscles loosen, with so many of them complaining.]
I hardly had time for my sword forms. A number of my unarmed patterns fell by the wayside.
[To say nothing of lacking the benefit of the cruxis crystal. He'd known unarmed forms before he put it on; but that was a very long time ago, and without having practiced them all that much ... no, he's not at all confident in his memory of them.]
no subject
[Right. Cruxis crystal. Yuan frowns at Kratos, though by this point it's mostly as a habit of course rather than anything specifically he's done. Except being him.]
Then what are we doing here? Hmph. I'll take you through mine.
[Which will be different, owing to their different original training.]
no subject
[Even his muscle memory. Kratos finishes he stretches and shakes the lingering tension out of his limbs, nodding at Yuan.]
Alright. Tell me how to begin.
no subject
This way.
[Yuan takes up a position slightly ahead of him, settling into an even initial stance. He draws breath, even and conscious, and moves. He's slow at first to demonstrate, making sure Kratos can keep up, and on further repetitions it's faster.]
[It's possibly more peaceful than most of what he's had since he kidnapped Kratos. Yuan lets the flow of motion turn meditative, though never quite so much as to take his attention off his companion.]
[He's not going to stop watching Kratos.]
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)