Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-13593058-20160813171701/@comment-27743663-20161016014918

Well, this took a turn for the unfortunate, Nigrum thought to himself. In retrospect, trying to look as unnoticabble as possible only brought up further notice to himself in Ms. Summer's case. His habitual mumbling probably didn't help either, neither did the fact no one picked a partner in those ten minutes. Now here he was, standing across Leila, thanks to all that. Scratching the back of his head, he wondered if it was possible to somehow back out by claiming he didn't like fighting people.

Miss Summer's would probably scoff and say the world didn't care what he liked, actually...Not that she'd be wrong. He really didn't want to spar, but he couldn't just back out either, so that really only left two options. Either take getting beaten around silly for the next ten minutes, or do the classic dodge and retreat. That was a no-brainer. Now he just had to review everything he knew about Leila to make this easier on himself.

Not much actually. Nothing about her stuck out enough to follow her around, she seemed more like a spectator like himself. No, that wasn't exactly right, someone that goes with the flow? Passive, it seemed. There was one thing he's heard around as well, apparently she has a bit of a rude streak towards people, asking what their gain was if bothered. Hmm, rather than rude, didn't that seem more paranoid or cautious? That, he could actually use. Potentially set false traps that weren't there to keep her on edge to keep more distance, ring a few fake alarms in her head maybe.

Combat wise, going from previous classes, she was undoubtedly a martial artist, which was just wonderful right now. He didn't know what specific style, but since he was just going to dodge he could probably pick up the rhythm of it. Her semlance was the problem, since he had no idea what it was. He'd seen it once before in a previous class, but that was it. Thankfully it was obvious when she activated it, so keeping away from her if she used it should be simple enough. Her semblance might not do much, but it was better safe than sorry, so for now he was just assuming it somehow helps with her martial arts.

All that seemed simple enough on paper. Now just to wonder how long it would take for the paper to be torn to shreds. Might as well start off by testing that over-cautious theory first, just to test the waters.

"I actually don't like fighting people much," Nigrum admitted aloud, scratching his cheek while averting his one eye, "so, you can go ahead and make the first move. I'll just react to it and we'll see how it goes from there."

There. Just in case, he had his semblance already active, his averted green as he was ready to retreat at the slightest twitch. Marain's face was distracting him a bit though. She looked way too giddy about this...actually, they all did. While some might have been expecting some fantastic speedster combat, she was probably just waiting for him to get his ass kicked. That was reassuring.