The Park, Friday Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

It wasn't a bad day today to be in the park. It was a cloudy day, maybe, but not bad. They grey of the sky made the greens all seem to stand out in stark relief, and the blue glow of Kanan's lightsaber was like an electric streak as he worked his way through Ataru forms he'd learned in his youth. It was more aggressive than his usual Soresu by a long shot, yes, but it was something he'd been letting slip in a bad way, more confident and comfortable in the patterns he'd run again and again with his Master during the war.

Still, even a Jedi running forms that had begun to grow rust on them would likely present quite an impressive sight to those not well-versed in them, particularly once he started pushing himself into slightly more advanced steps, throwing quick strikes in succession and putting the Force behind the leaps and flips that no average human could manage.

... Occasionally just to avoid a milling group of ducks, granted. These things sometimes happened.

[OOC: Open park, open post! Mmm delicious Friday.]

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[thatwaslucky]

It wasn't any surprise to have Rey come and watch for a while on Fridays, but today was slightly different. She recognized some of the things he was doing from last week, and rather than just hanging back because she didn't want to interrupt, she stood where she wasnaure he'd see her, taking note of the moves from a different perspective this time.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan knew she was there, of course, and paused to give her a small nod in greeting between one set of steps and the next.

"Want me to go a little slower so you can better see the shape of things?"

He was willing. Ataru might have been based strongly on speed and acrobatics, but doing the same motions slowly took its own sort of control, too.

[thatwaslucky]

"Only if you want to," Rey answered.



She could see the benefits either way, actually.

[uncertain_dume]

"I'll go once, slowly, and then faster again the next time," Kanan settled on with a nod. "So you can see the technique of it, and then how it's actually applied in motion, then."

Split the difference! It wasn't like he was in any particular hurry to finish up, today.

[thatwaslucky]

"Okay," she ageeed, tilting her head a little. "It's different, seeing it now."

[betterthanaplan]

Duke was just on a casual walk through the park. So of course he would happen across a guy doing . . . a weirdly aggressive variation on fire-spinning? In the daylight?

Well. Whatever it was was impressive at least, so Duke stopped to watch for a bit. And looked around for a hat or something to toss some cash into.

[uncertain_dume]

No hat, alas! Kanan wasn't really much of a hat person. But there was a bag off to the side with a selection of training weapons in it. And a medkit, just in case.

That said, the show was about to end after a moment, when Kanan straightened up, shut off his blade, and glanced at the other man.

"Looking for someth--huh."

Look, there was a very particular aesthetic this guy had going, here. It was worth taking a moment to blink.

[betterthanaplan]

“. . . Yeah, ‘huh’ pretty well covers it.”

Seriously, this guy almost even had his nose.

[uncertain_dume]

Buddy here had darker eyes and less severe eyebrows, but Kanan still needed to blink a few times and shake his head to overcome that weird 'looking in a mirror' moment.

What. Fandom. What have you done?

"... You must be new."

He'd have remembered a face like that.

[thatwaslucky]

Don't mind Rey, silently looking between them.

Huh.

Cool, the new guy one mentor's face and her dead would-be mentor's job, this was fine.

[betterthanaplan]

Duke saw her and gave her a little lift of the chin in greeting.

"How's it going, Rey?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Okay. How was your class?"

You know, the one he wasn't teaching.

[biotic_psychotic]

She'd expected him to be meditating. Her eyebrows went right up when she saw what he was doing and then Jack parked herself against a tree and crossed her arms over her chest to watch the show. There hadn't been a whole lot of actual lightsaber forms because usually she was there when he and Kaidan were practicing.

And she absolutely loved it when he did the flippy shit. So there you were, ickle, getting wolf-whistled and clapped at and occasionally fingers held up in a numeric score when you did something cool.

[uncertain_dume]

Was Kanan landing a particularly tricky flip and then twisting around to strike a bow?

Yes.

Yes he was.

"Afternoon, Jack."

[biotic_psychotic]

Jack laughed and applauded. "Afternoon, ickle. You're in rare form today. What the hell's up?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Up? Nothing, really. I was running Rey through some Ataru forms last week and thought maybe I ought to make sure I'm in good form before teaching her anything more advanced. So far..."

He wrinkled his nose and made a so-so gesture.

"I haven't cut off an arm yet, anyway."

His own worst critic.

[unusual_sith]

At one point between badgering encouraging Kanan to spar, Lana nodded at her. "Good afternoon, Jack."

[biotic_psychotic]

"Hey Lana," Jack greeted with a smile, "How've you been? Been awhile since I've seen you. Classes going okay?"

[unusual_sith]

"Well, thank you. I'm taking a lot of self-defence. And Ethics and Civics. You're not teaching this semester?"

[unusual_sith]

Lana came by after class, watched for a moment, and then jumped in to block one of his strikes with Djem So.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan spared Lana a blink, and then shot her a grin.

"Well," he said. "Good afternoon, Lana."

He struck again.

[unusual_sith]

Lana caught it with a smile and turned to strike back. "Good afternoon."

[uncertain_dume]

"Djem So is also on my to-do list," Kanan mused, deflecting that blow and then going in for a small flurry of them in turn, left, right, above, left.

Ataru wasn't really known for allowing for casual conversation.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer had mentioned to Rey earlier in the week about maybe swinging by and scoping out how her practice was going, out of curiosity, but that was a bit of an excuse, if she was honest, though she still wasn't entirely sure what she was trying to excuse. She'd gotten a Squishy from the store, and headed over to the park, trying to find a spot where she could watching without being obtrusive or distracting or whatever.

....with her cat on a leash.

What? Pancakes needed to get out of the apartment more. And since she refused to actually walk with a leash, it was mostly just Summer carrying her around and then dumping her on the grass, which was fine by her. There were bugs she could hunt and eat and then regret eating in that grass.

[uncertain_dume]

"Hey, Summer, your cat's eating a bug," Kanan called from a stone's throw away, back... actually turned to the cat while he breezed through another succession of quick strikes with his lightsaber.

You know. In case she wanted to know.