Ah- it's a respectful way to refer to a practitioner! Usually someone more like a priest, but I'm not really sure what else we would call you... besides Miss Beau, that is.
[so she might be stuck with it!]
And yes, we've always used them. The founder of the QingheNie Sect was a butcher, so sabers suited the methods he established better than a double-sided blade did.
What? [ THAT'S THE COOLEST THING SHE'S EVER HEARD?? ] No! There's like - flying brooms, but not swords, what the fuck! That's awesome! How do you do it?
I don't usually use swords, so I don't know. Maybe they do? I don't think... Yasha's does... Fjord can summon his out of nowhere.
[ it takes her a second, and then: ] Oh. No, Caleb - all of them are part of the Mighty Nein, which is the group I'm a part of. We kinda do mercenary work?
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[she GRABBED IT don't put this on him, he's too delicate to bear the guilt of it!!
the question gets a nod, though.]
...it's like young master Jin's though, yes. Our Sects have different practices, but the core of it is more or less the same across all of them.
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Yeah. He told me about it a bit - I have something kind of similar to it? Except I call it ki, and it's for punching.
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[...haha but let's not get on that subject. he half-perked up at that mention and then immediately deflated again, actually.]
-Normally we use blades, though. Swords for the other Great Sects, and mine has always used sabers.
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Sabers, huh. Jin Ling was curious about it, he called me... fuck, what was it. Daozhang?
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[so she might be stuck with it!]
And yes, we've always used them. The founder of the QingheNie Sect was a butcher, so sabers suited the methods he established better than a double-sided blade did.
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[ also, as for that last bit of info, she squints. ]
A - butcher? Like actually, or in a derogatory way?
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[he shakes his head quickly, waving his fan along with the motion.]
Though his methods were fairly... violent, compared to the others... the sabers' fighting style made it necessary.
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I don't like swords. It's too easy to kill people with them.
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[because he's a weenie, god. he blinks over at her, though-]
Is it... is it killing at all that you don't like? Or just doing it thoughtlessly?
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[ -- hol up ] Wait, flying?
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[he'll return to the like, actual serious part of this in a minute, because he just looks confused.]
It's one of the most basic things we learn, as cultivators, so if you use something similar then I thought...
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[he sort of. pantomimes standing on something sort of like it's a skateboard, standing as straight as he can manage.]
Well, you do have to make sure you leave the flat of the blade up and not the edge, but you eventually get used to balancing.
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Fuuuck. I wonder if Caleb could make a sword do that for me. [ she says, totally amazed. ]
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[what kind of crappy normal swords do y'all have! damn! also!!:]
Is that a smith you know?
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[ it takes her a second, and then: ] Oh. No, Caleb - all of them are part of the Mighty Nein, which is the group I'm a part of. We kinda do mercenary work?
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[he doesn't sound like he disapproves, just... curious.]