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Ranko Saotome Adopts Everyone
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"...Have you ever been so mad at someone it felt cold instead of hot?"

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"...Usually when I'm mad I get really shaky and sick. Not cold."

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"I can try meditating on just water chakra then try to get ice from there?"

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"I'm not sure that's the right kind of thing but it can't hurt, at least."

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So he tries that. He can definitely get his aura watery, but he seems to be having trouble with the 'stillness' part of icy calm.

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"Yeah that's not it."

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"Ugh. This is hard."

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"Learning powerful techniques usually is. Hopefully this one isn't actually one of the ones involving obligatory trauma."

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"I get kinda cold when I'm sad, maybe if I think about that?"

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He sits and meditates... And sitting still's getting harder, but he thinks about all the everything that makes him sad - at first it makes him want to get up and do something and ignore it, but he keeps meditating - and gradually his expression blanks. (He might've managed a drop of a degree or two. Maybe. Might've been the wind.)

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Ranko watches carefully, biting her lip.

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He eventually gives up out of frustration. "This isn't a very fun technique... Is there anything easier?"

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"I do think you might have been on the right track this time, but sure. Uh, I don't know how much what you know overlaps with what I know...falling from heights? Fencewalking? Aerial combat?"

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"I can catch myself if I fall, and walk on something thin like a rope. Does aerial mean in the air? I haven't learned how to fight in treetops yet..."

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"Aerial means like in the air! It involves a lot of jumping."

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"I wanna learn that!"

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"Okay. So you know how to fall from a standing position; falling off something is harder."

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"Why?"

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"Because you're falling faster when you hit the ground, and because you don't have whatever part of you had been touching the ground to maneuver with."

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"Oh. Okay. So we're gonna learn falling from heights first? Why?"

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"Because it's safer to do anything else at heights if you know how to fall first."

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"Yeah, that makes sense."

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