Evie
His input is never derogatory or snide, it never has been, even when Evie was impetuous and half-fake with the facade she used to face the world with. It makes her think, changes her perspective, and she rolls with it like sand within his tide.
She turns loosely as he prowls around her, not keeping herself head-on this time out of preference. She didn’t like the way it forced her to hunker down and bear an attack with no good way to get out from behind it, nor the way it reduced her options for rallying and parrying. So when he strikes, she takes his advice, and utilizes her shield in a way that is more helpful than merely stopping an attack dead. Swinging hard with her shield arm in a swiping motion, angled only slightly, Evie aims to knock the spear to the side and off course. The large diameter of the shield means she barely has to lower her arm when his feint is registered, a bonus Evie hadn’t counted on.
This time, she doesn’t hesitate, and shoves forward with her forearm first - supplying the entirety of her body weight behind it - to try and force the spear up into Deimos’ chest now it had been countered.
She turns loosely as he prowls around her, not keeping herself head-on this time out of preference. She didn’t like the way it forced her to hunker down and bear an attack with no good way to get out from behind it, nor the way it reduced her options for rallying and parrying. So when he strikes, she takes his advice, and utilizes her shield in a way that is more helpful than merely stopping an attack dead. Swinging hard with her shield arm in a swiping motion, angled only slightly, Evie aims to knock the spear to the side and off course. The large diameter of the shield means she barely has to lower her arm when his feint is registered, a bonus Evie hadn’t counted on.
This time, she doesn’t hesitate, and shoves forward with her forearm first - supplying the entirety of her body weight behind it - to try and force the spear up into Deimos’ chest now it had been countered.
a golden cage, for all its worth and beauty
is still just a cage
is still just a cage
