He had the natural reflexes of a scrawny youth who'd been a natural runner rather than a fighter. Any dodge was a good dodge so long as it was successful, and though he'd had a year of training with Deimos that had been before the War. Now he picked up whatever he could from whomever he could cadge a bout from and whatever he survived on his own, and if that meant he was unpredictable, well...
Planning ahead had never been his strong suit.
Sometimes it paid off, like when he was able to give the Valkyrie an impromptu haircut - and he let out a brief crow of triumph before he realized that he was in trouble. He wouldn't have over-extended if they'd been on solid ground, but they weren't and he had - just a little. Just enough to make evading Ru's attack the next thing to impossible.
He pulled back, making a desperate blind, backwards leap to his previous stone and lashing out wildly with the pommel of his dagger in the hopes of hitting something, but not before the back of Hotaru's blade caught him across the hip mid-jump. He grunted and landed precariously, teetering and almost falling in before he managed to drop to one knee and regain his balance. "So this is what the view's like from down here," he teased, down but not yet out!
Planning ahead had never been his strong suit.
Sometimes it paid off, like when he was able to give the Valkyrie an impromptu haircut - and he let out a brief crow of triumph before he realized that he was in trouble. He wouldn't have over-extended if they'd been on solid ground, but they weren't and he had - just a little. Just enough to make evading Ru's attack the next thing to impossible.
He pulled back, making a desperate blind, backwards leap to his previous stone and lashing out wildly with the pommel of his dagger in the hopes of hitting something, but not before the back of Hotaru's blade caught him across the hip mid-jump. He grunted and landed precariously, teetering and almost falling in before he managed to drop to one knee and regain his balance. "So this is what the view's like from down here," he teased, down but not yet out!
