[RP] Adeline Training 1/2

So they're on the ship on the way to Calixis. Now since they're not really acolytes at that point they won't really have special treatment and the like but they have a long time to get situated and used to greater Imperium stuff. All of them were also raised to fight so they have to keep themselves busy somehow. As they are probably expecting to need to be combat ready, I could see them procuring some rubber bullets and stub automatics to practice dodging and how to deal with them. Along with that their standard training and sparring as feudal world warriors with wooden or possibly types of synthetic plastic weapons. Anais prefers the greatsword, Maria and Illyana the Sword and Shield, Geoffery a staff for right now, and Ranauld a longsword. We focus on Anais and Maria.
Maria stands opposite her daughter, sword and shield in hand. She's in a ready position but is not taking the offensive.
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Maria is right-handed unlike her husband

Anais holds her wooden greatsword and makes the first move. She intends to barrel through her mother with her greater strength. She charges with the sword held to the left of her as she makes a jump and using her hips for leverage turns herself in midair to swing the blade right upon her mother's shield.
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Maria steps forward to block the blow near the hilt of the sword, where the force is the weakest. She grits her teeth as shock of wood slamming into wood reverberates through her arm, then counters with a stab towards the gut.
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Anais is grazed as she jukes to the right and uses the momentum for a strike upon the shoulder.
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Maria tries to block, but her shield's on the wrong side and she's just a bit too slow. She grunts as the blade smacks against her shoulder, and says "Good."
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Anais's face is stone and unemotive as she steps back to ready while facing her. "I'm off balance in that type of attack. You shouldn't have parried but used my weakness to trip me or move to the side." She says matter-of-factly.
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"You're right." Maria resumes a ready stance.
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Anais decides this time to charge again but keeps her blade pointed forward and held near her right shoulder. She moves forward.
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Maria takes the initiative and charges, keeping low and using her shield to cover her face and upper torso, sword held ready to thrust at an opening.
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This may be a mistake as Anais keeps the momentum but chooses to use her long wooden blade to sweep Maria's legs in another twisting motion as she moves counterclockwise and ends with the blade carried to her left hand.
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Maria, seeing her start to lower her blade from her shoulder and expecting a low blow, launches herself forwards and upwards. Anais's sidestep narrowly prevents a shield from being slammed into her face.
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Anais's reaction is too slow as she starts to wind into a thrust.
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Maria's sword cracks against the back of her knee. She backs off and resumes a neutral defensive stance. "If your opponent's position has an obvious weakness, consider that it may be a trap."
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She grunts and says plainly, "I see ruling and leading from the back has not dulled your skill," as she recovers and goes into multiple smaller swift attacks with more graceful follow-throughs and recoveries.
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Maria stays on the defensive, calmly giving ground and blocking, taking a stab whenever she sees an opportunity. "The mentality of politics, dueling, and warring are not so different."
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Anais is able to lean out of these stabs, "mentality is fickle." She goes for an upward chambered thrust that looks to be going to Maria's face.
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Maria ducks, draws back, and goes for another shield slam.
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Anais uses the closed distance to backfist and then knee her mother.
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The fist slams against her shield, but the knee connects. Maria grunts in pain, and her blow only glances of of Anais's belly.
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Anais takes the hit to bring the pommel of her sword upon Maria's back.
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Maria collapses to one knee, then slashes her sword upwards at her daughter's leg.
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She hits and pushes Anais off balance.
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Maria makes a guarded stab towards her chest as she backs of to recover her breath.
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Anais takes the hit and coughs but then brings her blade up to bring down in a devastating assault.
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Maria keeps losing ground, blocking blow after withering blow. She's panting from the exertion, and barely making any offensive actions.
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Anais gives a thrust kick to attempt to plant her on the ground.
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Maria barely blocks it and goes for one last all-out attack to the head.
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Anais sweeps under to swing her blade to her mother’s side.
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The blow connects solidly, and Maria raises a hand to indicate a stop. She leans on her sword as a crutch and pants "My skill may be undiminished, but it appears my vigor is not."
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Anais stops and rests upon her weapon. "How do you intend to war in these precious stars of yours if you cannot even fell a rampaging brute that doesn't even intend to kill you?" She says as she looks down on her.
Maria gives her daughter a sour look. "By leading those like yourself. A strong arm is useless if it doesn't know where and how to swing."
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"A weak hand is severed if it cannot defend itself from that which it points to."

Maria recovers her breath and stands fully upright. "We go into dangers we cannot even imagine. How many horrors do you think you can fight? One? Ten? A hundred? Mere personal might is not enough to see us through. I would have thought you'd understand that."
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"Might controls everything, and without strength, you cannot protect anything.

Not even Father."
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Maria stiffens, and her eyes fill with anger for a moment before regaining her calm. "Not alone, no. But neither of us are alone."
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"We are all alone in the end no matter what surrounds us. There is only the will and one's flesh to rely on." She looks at her.
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Maria shakes her head. "That's not enough."
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"Yet it is what separates the living from the dead. The core of this species' survival. All this pageantry and these baubles that surround us is an exercise in man's will to power. Nothing else."
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Maria shakes her head again. "You misunderstand. A human that is alone is a human that is dead. Our ability to work together, to cover each other's weaknesses, is what keeps us alive. We need social structures to facilitate that, and those 'pageantry and baubles' you hold in contempt help to maintain those structures. You don't have to embrace them, but do not denigrate that which you do not understand."
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"A weak link breaks the chain, no matter how many of its clasped fellows. I do not denigrate. I merely observe."
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Maria sighs. "There is more than one kind of strength. But, we should save this discussion for another time. As it stands, neither of us will convince the other."
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Anais nods.
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"Are you prepared to move on to projectile weaponry?"
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"I am."
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Maria goes to retrieve two stub revolvers loaded with rubber bullets. "Do you wish to practice with me, or shall I summon combat servitors?"
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"I prefer to deal with someone who can react more properly."
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She nods and hands over one of the guns before moving to a distance of 10 meters. "Very well."
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Anais picks it up.
She moves 10 meters.

She immediately tries to fire from the hip.