IC contact post/Appointments

[origami_ninja]

(Feel free to use this post to have your character ICly contact Konan about things. This can be done through journals, or through her origami. If she's given your character origami before and they've either guessed or been told that she can use it as an extension of her senses, they can use it.

If you wish to use this post for appointments, by all means. Please put day, time and location in the subject line of your post for a meeting, and please specify journal or origami contact if you're using IC contact. Thanks!)

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[Action - Battledome]

[origami_ninja]

[Konan can't help but notice Mercury's natural affinity for working with others. There's no grandstanding or taking on everything herself here. She's adapting well to the scenario, and she's prepared to offer backup if needed.

Konan in turn is fighting mindful of the whole picture as she fights. She's picking up on the attack patterns and disrupting them with the paper shuriken at her command.]

[Action - Battledome]

[geniustheveil]

[It's simple, on one level: They may not know each other well yet, but right now these fabricated opponents are after both of them. They have a stronger chance if they work together for the fight.

On another level, it's a way to say she's willing to get along, and hopes they will. When she finds a brief lull in the battle, a pause to catch her breath, she can't help still being impressed at Konan's focus and skill.]

You must have trained very hard to become so strong.

[Action - Battledome]

[origami_ninja]

I have been training since I was seven years old.

[Back then, it had been entirely for self defense. As she became a more capable ninja, it was to fight for peace and for her nation's prosperity.]

Was that magic that you were using earlier?

[Action - Battledome]

[geniustheveil]

[Peace and prosperity were noble goals; but even they had been used as excuses for war, in Mercury's world. But for now, they're both simply discussing these abilities.]

It was. My powers are water-based, like you saw. I used them to defend our planet in my world.

[Action - Battledome]

[origami_ninja]

Mine use chakra - energy that comes from within. It forms from developing the mind and body. Some people naturally have a higher amount of chakra than others, but it always grows with age and life experience. It can deteriorate when one's health does, though.

[Largely because the body's first priority was to devote that natural energy to physical health.]

[Action - Battledome]

[geniustheveil]

Mine come from planet Mercury. I take my name from there.

[As if the powers and the person are all wrapped up into one and the same thing. In a way, it's very true. In another way, she'd be distressed to ever think of it that way and would want to insist there was more to her than only that.]

[Action - Battledome]

[origami_ninja]

So you draw power from the planet, then? Summoning cosmic energy? Or something else entirely?

[She almost wonders if it's like nature chakra - a third source that was external rather than internal, but perilous to fail to control properly.]

[Action - Battledome]

[geniustheveil]

[Their powers were something innate in them but drawn from their planets. In a way, it was one and the same. Mercury nodded.]

I call on my planet when I- [She stops, as though to think of how to explain] when I use my attacks, in battle I mean.

[Action - Battledome]

[origami_ninja]

Are there non-combative aspects of your powers?

[She's vaguely curious. She can see how useful those abilities are from seeing Mercury in action, but it's always interesting to see what people think of to develop their abilities outside of direct combat.]

[Action - Battledome]

[geniustheveil]

There are. After all, water is useful for many things.

[And not only can she find it when it's needed, she can conjure it up herself out of nowhere. She can provide it for crops. She can purify a damaged supply...]