markofthewise | Sokka the 26th

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[It's a busy couple of days at the smithy for Sokka. Aside from the huge playground order, which is keeping the place running all day long, he has a few other projects to work on. His own private supply of Batarangs (the boy has gotta have a hobby or twenty), Smoker's Jitte, and hey, he even finished off that saw he was supposed to finish a long time ago for Edward's client, the Medic. It's amazing how much work a guy can get done when he doesn't want to talk to Raphael, because he's a jerk, and Winry because of soap opera-esque brooding. Well, Edward, at least Sokka still has you, you freakish mountain of a teenage boy.

He'll be home later for awhile after work, but then he'll be heading to the roof of the house. Why? Because it's time he got rid of that spotlight with the Batman symbol on it before it causes any unwelcome attention. Or at least, he needs to get the metal bat piece on there off. Too bad it's welded there. All that work to pry it off might cause him to accidentally turn the thing on a few times and illuminate a certain emblem in the sky. Oops?

Naturally of course, feel free to get up in Sokka's business at any point in the day. He also has his journal open, so he'll certainly speak up if his name is mentioned.]

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[... well he does have a ladder by the roof. But he can't let that stand, so he jumps off the roof himself. No somersault and he lands on his feet, but it hurts a bit and he goes trotting a bit before he slows himself down.

Right, acrobatics. He had to work on that too.] Here, let's go over here. [He picks a nice spot between the barracks and his house, near a tree and close enough to one of the street lamps for them to see. He sits back down, this time without any falling.]

Alright, so watch carefully. First, you have your seven major chakras. Your crown, your third eye, your throat, heart, solar plexis, splenic, and root chakra. All your chi flows in and out of these chakras.

[He nods attentively at that, doing his best to pay attention to the lesson and not the demonstration. Because, hey, he is a guy after all.]

Okay. I think I get that. [He wouldn't have ever bothered to believe in this kind of stuff before, but it had been used against him before, so...]

Now your chakras and your pressure points aren't the same thing. You can't hit someone in the chakra because it doesn't have one specific location on your body. But pressure points are all over your body, and they're the key places where chi moves and flows.

[Okay, that makes sense. It's not disabling the engine. It's blocking the valves that feed it.]

Right, right. The human body is like a machine.

I guess you could say that, yeah. Your chi runs through your body like a map. Once you learn the map and where the pressure points are, it's pretty easy.

[Ah, maps. He's good with those. Maps and machines.]

So I guess when we start practicing, maybe I could paint some targets on myself...

You can't practice on yourself. Okay, come here.

[Well he couldn't exactly propose painting her, now could he?]
Um, alright? [He shuffles a bit closer.]

Make a fist like this.

[Okay, he's seen her do that before. Precision punching, that's all it is. He mimics her action, although his fingers might not be outstretched as much as they need to be.]

Like this, right?

That's pretty good. When you're actually going for a pressure point, you want it to be a quick jab, like this. Now, I'll show you where they are.

This is a pressure point that can really mess someone up. Stay away from it.

[He nods at that.]

Right. That really would cause some problems... [And is sort of worrying to think about. What if Ty Lee had used that on them in their past battles?]

This is another really dangerous one. If you paralyze someone's throat...

[Then they can't breathe. This is definitely more dangerous than he initially suspected.]

So stay away from the temples and throat. Okay.

Okay, now that that stuff's out of the way-- This is the main pressure point for the shoulder. There's one on the opposite side, too.

[This is getting a little bit awkward tracing his hand all over her like this, but he does his best not to show it.]

So what happens if I hit these? You can't use your arms anymore?

Sort of. It's more like I can't lift them. I could still move my hands and bend my elbows. if you want to keep someone from moving their arms, That's here.

[Okay, right. He's pretty sure she actually used that one on him. Then again, he's pretty sure she used all of them on him except for the temples and throat.]

Between those two, that's usually enough to stop someone's bending, right? If you can't move, you can't bend as well. [Unless you're friggin Bumi.]

If you're going up against an amateur bender, sure. But some people can bend without their arms, so that's only going to delay them.

[Which would probably include Azula, who can breathe fire and make rocket feet. Oi.]

Yeah, I guess that makes sense.

So what's important are the pressure points on their back. These can really disrupt someone's chi.

[Okay Sokka, this is just a demonstration. No big deal.]

This is where a bender gets most of their chi, right? [At least it seems to make sense to him. After all, Aang was hit in the back and that 'locked' his chakra. At the very least that made it impossible for him to go into the Avatar state.]

Well, it's where everyone gets most of their chi. You can also use these pressure points to give really great massages.

[He thinks about that.]

If someone blocked your chi back there, would a uh, chi massage fix it?

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[Action] you keep Solid Snakeing his sister. :(

[Action] it's the only appropriate icon I have ;____;

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