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yes good *^*

[synchronised]

[ It's a tenet not everybody understands and Mako sees that misunderstanding play out in the kwoon again and again. Too much anger without focus can do more harm than good, can hurt more than just kaiju — it can hurt a team, an entire mission. It's Mako's responsibility to make sure the recruits understand how to wield the power that's given to them. ]

SENT: 2:50 PM
You can one day.
The only thing that stands in your way is you.
Learn how to overcome the obstacles in yourself and nothing will stand in your way.

[ She almost types Raleigh, almost addresses him by his first name. But that a familiarity that Mako doesn't allow. ]

SENT: 2:52 PM
First step.
Hit me.

[southpaws]

SENT: 3:00 PM
i'll do my best not to hit your face.
but yes, ms. mori.
i promise to hit you.

[ This is perhaps the strangest thing he's ever had to text anyone ever, but he also is aware that, in many ways, it's the most honest text he's sent in a long while.

Raleigh knows three things: one, that he adores Mako Mori and the ground she walks on; two, that she's the best instructor there is in the entirety of the Kwoon; and three, that he is hopelessly unaware of how he's going to hit her when every inch of his body tells him not to.

But challenge accepted. ]

[synchronised]

[ Point of fact: Raleigh isn't the first recruit to have trouble facing Mako Mori on the mats. With every new wave come a few fresh faces that step out into the kwoon to meet their instructor and, for the life of them, are unable to bring their staff to bare on her — even after she pummels them to the ground in front of the rest of their classmates. Most of the time Mako simply assumes that it's because she's so petite, that they look at her and assume that she's weak or somehow breakable.

More often than not, those preconceived notions go flying out the window as soon as their cheek hits the floor for the first time. Better watch it, Instructor Mori has been known to whisper to an opponent before stepping back with a twirl of her weapon. Raleigh's heard the line more than once. Mako wonders if he'll ever get tired of hearing it. ]

SENT: 3:02 PM
You don't seem to have any difficulty hitting Instructor Hansen in the face.

[southpaws]

SENT: 3:05 PM
with all due respect, ms. mori, mr. hansen's face isn't that nice to look at.

[ See this: Raleigh's feelings for Instructor Hansen is proportionally inverse to how much he thinks Ms. Mori is the sun and stars of his every waking day in the Academy. There's something about Hansen's face that ticks him off, and the way the instructor has no compunctions to be so vulgar about his peers and trainees just ticks Raleigh off like he doesn't know how.

Raleigh's never encountered anyone he's wanted to deck straight across the nose as much as he wants to deck Instructor Hansen, and it's saying something, given how much trouble the Becket brothers tend to get in. He wants to just wale on the guy, and he's fairly certain 50% of the reason is because of how close Instructor Hansen is with Ms. Mori.

He's such a jerk, why are you with him is always a question Raleigh bites his tongue on every time. ]

[synchronised]

[ For the record: Mako Mori is not actually with Chuck Hansen. Maybe once, when they were younger and still were budding recruits in the Academy the answer to the question might have been different, but it wouldn't have been different by much (evasive rather a straight forward no, but still never in the affirmative). Their shared responsibilities as instructors mean that much of Mako and Chuck's lives intersect, but it's not the same thing as compatibility and it's not quite an overlap.

(What the recruits manage to muster up by way of gossip and hearsay isn't really Mako's concern. She knew the truth and Chuck knew the truth. They were too busy trying to prove other things to people to bother spending any time trying to prove to them that. ]

SENT: 3:07 PM
Are you saying my face is nice to look at?