The Park, Friday Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

The weather had finally started to take a turn toward autumn around here, it seemed, and the slight chill in the air was what Kanan was choosing to put his focus into today, rather than how thankful he was to be back to normal even while a large number of the island's residents still weren't. Being back to normal now meant there was a frame of reference for the rest, hopefully, and it was easy enough to haul the bamboo shinai to the park in any case, so that the margin for injury during training today was minimized somewhat.

Sure, he had his lightsaber out and was doing some fairly acrobatic forms today while he waited for anybody who might decide to join him today, but after a week of knocking his knuckles on the sides of kitchen counters and accidentally knocking his chest into corners, could anybody really blame him?

[OOC: Open! Slight SP in there while I do my democratic duty and then do some errands.]

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[thatwaslucky]

Rey had sort of accepted this week's stupidity and was at least confident that it would end soon... and then she got here and saw Kanan was normal.

Which was where the "uuuugh" noise came from. So unfair.

[uncertain_dume]

And that 'uuuugh' got a bit of a laugh out of Kanan, who lowered his lightsaber and had to raise his free hand to cover his mouth. You know. Because of what was totally a cough. Sorry, Rey.

"Hey, remember, I got stuck with it two whole days before you did," he called over to her. "This is a good sign!"

A beat.

"Probably."

[thatwaslucky]

"I know. But it's unfair," she said, and clarified, "I mean, it's fair. But it's not."

It was all unfair.

[uncertain_dume]

"It gives you an idea of when to expect you'll be back to your usual self," Kanan offered. "But... if the situation were reversed, I admit I'd probably feel about the same way."

He really wasn't a fan of having breasts.

Or, well, he wasn't a fan of there being a learning curve for navigating his own body.

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm already over it," Rey complained. "How long were you like this?"

[uncertain_dume]

"I changed on Monday and changed back today," Kanan replied, "so you've probably got another two days to go. Or, we can hope, anyway."

[thatwaslucky]

There was another, quieter version of the "uuugh."

"I never used to get hit with any of this," she said.

Those days were super over. Like extremely over.

[uncertain_dume]

"Welcome to the weird," Kanan said, smiling wryly. "Sounds like the island is making up for lost time, huh. So... meditation day?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Sure. I could use some focus." Because that hadn't been going great.

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando was back to his male self and only feeling the mildest of loss about it. Sparkle had.. not taken the change back very well. Had cried themselves into exhaustion. Hernando had called in and canceled his lecture for the day because he wasn't heading to Toronto and leaving Sparkle by themselves.

But there were other people he needed to check up on, so once Sparkle was asleep and tucked in, he ventured out. It was Friday, it was a nice day, he knew where Kanan would be.

"Kanan," he greeted, watching the flippy shit with fascination and firmly locking down the rising horror he felt every time the lightsaber moved and hummed, "Feeling better?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Feeling much more myself, at least," Kanan agreed, lightsaber shutting off as soon as Hernando spoke up. His feet found the ground as the blade fluttered, and the hilt was clipped to his belt by the time he was standing straight again. "And yourself?"

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando definitely breathed easier when the lightsaber was put away. "I am well enough. A little sad the experience is over but very happy to have my regular body back as well. I missed my beard."

Among other things.

"Sparkle is.. taking it less well. I took today off and we'll see how the weekend goes. I thought I'd come by and check on you and Duke and Kaidan to see how you three were."

[uncertain_dume]

"Well, so far, so good, for me," Kanan noted, shrugging a little. "I haven't spoken with either of the others yet, though. They both seemed to be taking it with a little bit more grace than I was."

If 'grace' was the word for anything Duke did, really.

"If it helps at all, this wasn't my first time having this experience, I imagine your chance will come again. Not sure if that'll help Sparkle any, though."

[hernando_fuentes]

"Sparkle has been through it before," Hernando agreed, "They'll be okay, they just need time to readjust. Kaidan seemed fine when I talked to him on the phone, the change didn't seem to bother him emotionally but I would like to see if his head and body are feeling better."

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan gave a small nod of acknowledgement, there.

"Kaidan had mentioned an ache on top of the migraine he already had on Monday," he noted. "With any luck, whatever was aggravating him has passed, now."

[hernando_fuentes]

"That is my hope," Hernando admitted. He smiled a little, "Dani wanted to know if we got pictures of you and Duke. I said I did not. She asked if you got selfies, if you would mind sending her a copy? She would like to see what you two got up to while you looked like her. I tried to tell her I did not think either of you was much for selfies, but.. it's Dani."

She thought everyone should be into selfies. And self care.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan just raised an eyebrow at that, pulled out his phone, opened up his camera reel, and pulled up a photo of himself, in his 'cosplaying as Dani cosplaying as Kanan' getup, standing in the cockpit of the Ghost with the blue vortex of hyperspace behind him.

"Actually," he said, "I was going to ask you if you knew how I could get this to her."

He offered Hernando his phone.

"Thought she'd get a kick out of it."

[unusual_sith]

Lana walked over, sighed, and raised her lightsaber. She didn't feel an introduction was needed, but she wasn't just going to jump in, either, not when she still wasn't entirely used to how she moved like this.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan glanced her way, and then nodded a little, coming to a stop nearby.

"Run forms first?"

A spar right now could be... bad. For her.

[unusual_sith]

"Forms," Lana agreed. "Though I could use a good fight, too." Maybe she could see the point of low-power blades; it'd be nice to be able to just get some aggression and frustration out without having to worry about dying.

That was probably not the point of them to the Jedi.

[uncertain_dume]

Not really, no.

"Forms first, get a feel for where everything is sitting," Kanan suggested. "I spent most of this week knocking my knuckles against things I expected to find higher, you're going to get used to moving in that shape before we clash blades, or you're going to wind up with burns."

Look, a low-output mode didn't mean it couldn't hurt you, it just meant that it was less likely to take a limb off.

Plasma was still plasma, dammit.

[unusual_sith]

Lana nodded. "I've done a lot of meditating, especially at first. I think I've got the hang of it enough if I don't have to fight. It's still annoying, though. My bed is so much smaller!"

[uncertain_dume]

"Whereas I had so much more room to move around but the trade-off was that I needed to use the Force to get things from tall shelves," Kanan noted with a small smirk. "Forms for now. We'll see about sparring later."

[unusual_sith]

Lana nodded. "The extra reach takes some getting used to. I don't feel that different, but between that and the center of gravity, I suspect the forms will be very different."

She lifted her blade. "I think I'll stay away from Ataru, though."

[uncertain_dume]

"It might not be a bad idea to start with Shii-Cho today," Kanan noted. "Re-master the basics and work your way up from there."