Kanan's Warehouse, Friday Morning and Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

If it wasn't for the rain today, Kanan would have been out in the park training.

It was warm outside. Comfortably warm. Warm enough that he'd have ditched the long jacket entirely if not for the water coming down. But at the very least, the sound of rain hitting the ceiling of the warehouse was a soothing one, and it made falling into his morning meditations that much easier.

Come the afternoon, when he had a remote and his lightsaber out, it was just one more distraction. But that wasn't a bad thing. After all, it wasn't as though he'd be working without distractions back home. Ever. So, overall, a win.

Still, he couldn't help but be a little bit wistful about it. Maybe next week.

[OOC: Open!]

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[thatwaslucky]

And of course, there was the weekly call, over from where rain was really, really not an issue.

[uncertain_dume]

Was it bad that Kanan exhaled a little sigh of relief every Friday when that call came?

Yeah. Space Dad still worried.

"Afternoon, Rey."

[thatwaslucky]

Just wait, Space Dad.

"Hi," she greeted him. "How are you this week?"

[uncertain_dume]

"No complaints so far this week," Kanan replied easily. "There were tiny rodents in little costumes running around the island yesterday, that's about all the excitement there's been so far."

Sure, they had started a food fight in his class, but he'd come out of it fine, so what was the problem, right?

[thatwaslucky]

"Oh, I've seen those before!"

Was it weird to be excited that she recognized a Fandom thing?

[uncertain_dume]

Nah. It was something familiar. Familiar was nice, sometimes.

"Oh, yeah?" Kanan grinned a bit at that. "They had little hats with feathers in them and tiny guns and swords?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Yes. They were there last year, I think," she said. "They had a little sword fight that made it hard to get my boots without stepping on them."

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan chuckled a little at that.

"Aw, guys. They were pretty fearless, I'll give them that. They started a food fight in my class."

About culture shock. There were a lot of things going on, there.

[thatwaslucky]

"That's wasteful of them," Rey frowned. "What brought that on?"

[biotic_psychotic]

Jack walked in with Kaidan. The two had clearly already been bickering for awhile. Pretty much the whole walk here. Kaidan was annoyed because he just wanted to do sword practice because it was Friday while Jack was insisting they have a conversation about biotics and the Force. Neither one seemed to notice the rain much, Jack wearing a waterproof trench coat and Kaidan wearing a rainsuit and ball cap.

".. just shut it, Alenko. You get the finesse and handling and I get what the fucking weaknesses are. You were taught better use of yours but I was taught how to exploit it when fighting other biotics. You wouldn't let any of your team go untrained in this shit and you fucking know it. Kanan ain't a biotic, that's true, but his shit's similar enough that we should figure out how similar, right? Make sure if there's some sort of cross-power combo it's at least on purpose?"

Take that logic and smoke it, Kaidan.

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan was rubbing his forehead under the brim of his hat. He had a headache. This was not how he'd planned his day to go and the disruption of his normal schedule was messing with him. He didn't like it.

"We already did this once. It doesn't work like biotics vs. biotics. There are no combos," he muttered. Once they were inside, he appealed to a higher authority. "Kanan, would you tell her? She's not listening to me."

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan's lightsaber came up, a blaster bolt ricocheting off of the blade and going flying off toward a makeshift target he'd set up against the far wall. The remote zipped by his head, and he held out a hand, pressing the 'off' button through the Force and catching it before it could plummet to the floor.

"... What am I telling her?"

[biotic_psychotic]

"Why we should test biotics against the Force again and figure out the refresh or refill rate or what works with what or what don't and what counters what and shit like that," Jack answered immediately before Kaidan could.

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan shot her a look. "That we already tested this before and we already know that Reave will weaken your shield and everything else basically just bounces right off."

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan tilted his head a little for a moment.

"Well, yeah, but that was just my shield," he noted.

Sorry, Kaidan.

[biotic_psychotic]

"HA!" Jack barked a triumphant laugh at Kaidan, "See? He can do more than just fuckin' jump, Kaidan!"

[spectre_alenko]

"The point being, I've hit the Force with biotics before and it didn't combine," Kaidan said. "There's no reason to test that again. I know he can do more than jump. I just don't see the point in lobbing biotics at him when we already know he can shield them."

[unusual_sith]

Lana showed up in the afternoon looking a bit disgruntled, and not only from the rain. She nodded to Kanan and took her lightsaber off her belt. "Mind if I join in?"

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan glanced her way, tilted his head a little, and raised an eyebrow.

"Not at all. I can crank up the challenge level and set it for multiple targets."

A pause.

"Something bothering you today, Lana?"

[unusual_sith]

"Please." Lana huffed. "Class today. We had to sit hypothetical diplomats at a table. Several of them had ridiculous biases. Apparently smacking or threatening them wasn't an option."

[uncertain_dume]

"It rarely ever is," Kanan replied, amused. "I almost feel like I dodged a blaster bolt, there. I'm probably not likely to ever have to play diplomat, at least."

[unusual_sith]

"I may yet," Lana conceded reluctantly. "But the Empire is unlikely to require me to make nice with anybody that considers normal sexuality to be bad."

[uncertain_dume]

"That considers..." Kanan frowned a little. "That... seems like a..."

He tilted his head a little.

"Yeah, no, you're going to have to explain that one to me."

[unusual_sith]

Lana crossed her arms. "Two of the 'diplomats' we had to seat had a main religious tenet that said same-gender pairings were bad. I've heard there are people here that think like that, too, but I've never actually met anybody before. Even if these were simulated people. Ugh!"

[uncertain_dume]

"Oh," Kanan replied, breathing out a sigh. "Yeah, I've heard of that since coming here, too." He shook his head. "I don't understand people like that."

And he'd been raised to avoid relationships at all.

... Not that he was great at that.