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[tinflower]

Wrist-thick... [ He repeats, and-- let him look at your wrist, Wenshan...!! ]

You have...nice-sized wrists. That's a normal-looking wrist.

[ ...

... let him hold up and show Chu Wenshan his wrist! On the side where he isn't carrying anything, His own wrist is rather thin...green.... very green... ]

[nobraincell]

[............]

Maybe somewhere between both our wrist sizes.

[That seems good, right? A nice average number? He hasn't seen a proper nunchaku in a while actually.]

Are you interested in trying one?

[tinflower]

[ Is he? Let Gorgug think about it... Hmm... ]

...does it feel cool when you use it? ... does it look cool?

[ Very important question. ]

[nobraincell]

[He tilts his head, expressionless but clearly questioning.]

I wouldn't recommend trying to cool yourself off with it, you might hit yourself. If you want to see what it looks like in use... [......] If I get my hands on one I can show you a bit.

[tinflower]

[ Aww... look at his disappointment that you can't look cool easily with nunchakus. Well.. ]

Okay. [ ... ] You can look cool pretty easy with an axe. You just hold an axe. It's cool-- because it has a big blade.

[ See how easy it is to be cool with an axe, Chu Wenshan?? ]

[nobraincell]

[This misunderstanding....does not get noticed at all. He linefaces!

He has been linefacing this whole time so that was a redundant statement.]

Bigger isn't always better...it can definitely be intimidating to an average opponent, though. Is that what you usually use? [His gaze turns to Gorgug's skinny arms for definitely not the first time...]

[tinflower]

[ His arms look very skinny. His entire being is the definition of lanky, even in his hoodie (or especially in his hoodie). And yet! ]

Yeah. It's big-- all my axes are big. And better. I hit things real hard.

[ And for this he sounds very proud! He'll even mimic holding an axe with two hands (while minding his bag of ribs): ]

Wind it back-- [ He's winding back that invisible axe...! ] --and slam!

[ And he's swinging it forward!! ]

[nobraincell]

[This is fine, Chinese wuxia protags these days are all skinny buff, we gotta keep up with the times and all.]

Hitting hard is good. How hard can you hit with your fists? Training your fistwork could help increase your axe power.

[For an even bigger slam!!!]

[tinflower]

[ How hard?? Hmmm- ]

Our teacher used to make us hit boulders with our weapons and our fists. But I haven't done it in a long time. Not since I got here.

[ He hasn't been looking for boulders!! ]

[nobraincell]

[Ooh that gets a nod of approval out of him.]

Hitting boulders could be good. Where I'm from they usually go for trees or wooden targets, but if you're strong enough... destroying boulders would hurt less plant life, for sure.

[tinflower]

Did you have a good forest around? Some of the other classes used the woods, so, like, I think it was easier, somehow? To bring giant boulders into a classroom.

[ This makes sense. ]

[nobraincell]

Mn, many parts of China are full of forests and mountains. Very steep, forested mountains. So it was probably easier to make wooden targets than to find boulders, when you put it that way...

...Are there good boulders to use around here? Or a training facility maybe.

[tinflower]

I don't know... there's been posts about people offering training, but I don't know where they were, or if they're still around? I haven't looked for any boulders. [ Well. ] There are mountains.

[ And they're adult boulders, so there has to be boulders around, maybe? ]

You could ask-- on the network?

[nobraincell]

[Ooh.]

If there's mountains, there should be boulders...there's probably a few around Leafless Valley, actually, I just haven't thought to look.

[tinflower]

What do you do, normally?

[ Does Chu Wenshan have hobbies! ]

[nobraincell]

[Hmm...]

Training, chores, exploring...I found an island full of snakes the other day. They're pretty tasty.

[Maybe he needs a new hobby?]

[tinflower]

You go around trying the different animals around?

[ Is that a hobby? People do that?? ]

[nobraincell]

Not usually? It's not good to waste, though.

[And if snakes attack...!]

[tinflower]

I guess so. Do snakes eat snakes? I guess if they're hungry enough.

They used to live in the city section. The empty part with all the big buildings? Until Aurora wanted us to do something with them.

Someone moved them over to that island.

[nobraincell]

Snakes can eat snakes, probably.

[Wait...] Why did she want you to move them? Too many getting in the houses?

[tinflower]

Uh, she told us to deal with them. When I asked what that meant, she just repeated 'deal with them', so.. I guess she wanted us to do with them what we wanted?

Some people killed them, but some wanted to move them. I was gonna help with that since, I didn't really care? But then someone moved them in secret? I don't know why.

[ Pretty weird!! Always made him go ???, honestly. ]

[nobraincell]

[Thinking, thinking, thinking...]

Having them all on one island does make things convenient though. A good way to deal with the situation.

[Snake meat might not be the best meat, but—]

[tinflower]

Yeah. I thought, if we just killed them, then-- that was a test. If someone tells you to deal with something and your decision is to kill it, then, that's gotta say something about you, right? When you're being judged already to save your universe.

[ And that judgment might be bad??? It might be bad. Worse than snake meat. ]

[nobraincell]

[Chu Wenshan nods thoughtfully at this reasoning.]

That makes sense. It's better not to kill more than necessary - I think Buddhist monks say something like that too.

[That's...not exactly right...but close enough?]

[tinflower]

[ Whoa. Gorgug is nodding at that. ]

They sound like wise killers. [ Pause. ] I usually just kill people trying to kill me.

[ That's his way in life! ]