spelleton: (☀ i'll rise to face legends divine)
Ekkehardt Gehring ([personal profile] spelleton) wrote in [community profile] daybreakacademy2019-03-24 10:09 am

the best defense is literally any defense at all

Who: Ekkehardt, OTA
What: Addressing a perceived deficiency in the current curriculum
Where: An empty classroom
When: 14th-20th
Warnings: Nothing should come up but I'll change the header if it does.
Notes: I'll match you!



A.

[ You might find Ekkehardt out of the infirmary for once, tacking up a few posters here and there where students frequent. They're nondescript and not meant to be particularly noticeable. They provide relevant information about an unofficial self defense class.

The only particularly interesting part (besides Ekkehardt breaking his own routine) is that he's clearly specified that this class is explicitly for noncombatants.
]

B. Introduction

[ Upon reaching the classroom, Ekkehardt is sitting at the teacher's desk with his hands free, for once. There's a selection of various weapons - wooden ones, foam ones, some that are clearly for historical re-enactment - and implements (is that an umbrella?) laid out on the front row of desks. All in good condition (some are practically untouched).

He shows no signs of picking them up, or what they're going to be used for.

When students walk in, he simply nods at them in greeting. The only thing he really says is:
]

Do you have any questions before class starts?

C. Ekkehardt what (Practicals, part 1)

[ After he's deemed there's a reasonable amount of attendance, he stands up and indicates the weapons in all their mismatched glory. ]

All right. Here is the subject of today's class.

One at a time, you'll face off against me. I will have a weapon - you may choose it, if you like. You, on the other hand, will be unarmed.

Your objective is to stop me from touching you with the weapon. Otherwise, I win.

D. NO, REALLY, WHAT (Practicals, part 2)

[ When class is over, he indicates the selection of implements on the desk once more. ]

For the second part of this class, I want you to take one of these with you. Return them to me once you've completed the secondary task - which many of you will find vastly more entertaining, I'm sure.

[ He smiles, faintly. ]

Your objective is to touch or hit me with your weapon of choice. If you can do that, you win. And remember - you don't have to fight me. It's ideal if you do not.

You just need that weapon to make contact with me.

[ Over the next few days, Ekkehardt will be going about his business as usual. If you see him getting assaulted by various students wielding various weapons, he doesn't seem to mind at all.

In fact, he seems to be kind of enjoying it, in a weird way??
]

E. Wildcard

[ Did you come here to see Ekkehardt teach for once and not be a fusspot in the infirmary? Are you just curious about what a self-defense class for noncombatants entails? Literally anything else? Hit me I'll roll with it. ]
hippocarnival: (✮ 041 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-03-29 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuya watches his swing so that he can travel in the opposite direction and keep himself behind Ekkehardt. Can he do more? Can he do more...

He lunges forward and tries to punch Ekkehardt in the back.]
hippocarnival: (✮ 024 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-04-08 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoa--[Yuya reels back, stumbling as he tries to dodge the axe. It grazes his leg, and as he teeters back Yuya lunges for the handle to get a grip on it and maybe his whole weight falling backward will allow him to yank it out of Ekkehardt's grip.

Or he'll take him down with him.]