01 🦇 video; un: c.cain

[cassassin]

[Cass is in the common living room on Floor 6 when she records this. She's wearing a purple hoodie that's a size or two too large for her, and she holds up her phone, thinking.]

So, um--hi. [A little wave at her phone's camera, and it's definitely kind of uncertain and awkward.] I'm Cassandra. Tim, Jason, and Damian's... sister, if you know them. Got here a few weeks ago. I was... wondering, if any of you knew anything about... neurology? Brain structure. Um, language centers, especially. Maybe... different ways to teach? I had a scan done--back home. About a month before I... got here. I'm not... wired right, I guess. Or just... different? It's...

[She cuts herself off with a frustrated sigh, closing her eyes for a second. The words aren't lining up right. Scrubbing a hand back through her hair before she continues, moving onto another point. Forget where she had been trying to go with that before, doesn't matter now.]

So. I need to, uh, learn to read. Normal ways don't work.

[She pauses, thinking, before changing gears.]

And, um, Steph and I are... joining the Guard. So if anyone wants to train, or spar... uh, let me know? I'm a good teacher. Learned from... all of the best.

[Yeah uh. She guesses that's it? Video over.]

Comments

[cassassin]

[She nods pretty emphatically at that first part. "Normal" isn't something she has a huge frame of reference for in general.]

Can't hurt to try. Total beginner, or...?

[luckyescape]

[Her normal remark is a quote from the Addam's family, not that she expects people to catch that. She's already found a lacking number of people who know who the Ghostbusters are.] Not total beginner. I got some skills, I just usually use them to run the fuck away.

[cassassin]

[Good call, Freya, because Cassandra's cultural lexicon is sorely lacking. The curse of technically being from a pre-streaming service period and kind of just watching whatever she happens across on TV that seems interesting. Most of her cultural touchstones are trashy horrible soap operas and reality shows and laugh track sitcoms, and all within the past couple of years.

She nods again, thinking. She doesn't exactly teach or think of fighting in terms of styles, but moves from soft styles sound like what Freya might adapt to most easily.]

Nothing wrong with that. Plenty of styles are mostly... dodging and blocking.

[luckyescape]

[Freya nods her head in an energetic bob.]

Yeah, I know. That's all I really got going for me right now. Which is fine but this city is so small. I'm not sure how far I can run before that won't work anymore.

[It's a super depressing thought for her but she's trying not to focus on it.]

Let me know when and where. Even if it's just a start, it'll help.

[Learning how to train is just as important as training.]