( It's difficult to hold her tongue when she's asked so directly like that. Closing her eyes for a moment, Kokomi considers them deeply, a hand curling fingers near her chin as she does. After a half minute or so of that, she opens her eyes with a slow exhale. )
It's not that you've done anything wrong, so I hope you won't take my words as insult. Rather, I think you have remarkable potential. I would have to see your fighting in more contexts, but from the little I witnessed, I wonder if you might become overwhelmed by your emotions in battle.
( With a gentle gesture, she unfolds a palm in the direction of the seagull guard who had been nearly drowned. The eyes she turns back on Rahu are still soft, but they're focused, intrigued, holding her own knowledge. )
It may sound contradictory, to let your thoughts wander anywhere else but the desire to draw more power from within yourself— but have you considered in moments of intensity to focus on something more mundane, like counting the number of punches you throw, or the length of the breaths you take in? Something to ground yourself.
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( It's difficult to hold her tongue when she's asked so directly like that. Closing her eyes for a moment, Kokomi considers them deeply, a hand curling fingers near her chin as she does. After a half minute or so of that, she opens her eyes with a slow exhale. )
It's not that you've done anything wrong, so I hope you won't take my words as insult. Rather, I think you have remarkable potential. I would have to see your fighting in more contexts, but from the little I witnessed, I wonder if you might become overwhelmed by your emotions in battle.
( With a gentle gesture, she unfolds a palm in the direction of the seagull guard who had been nearly drowned. The eyes she turns back on Rahu are still soft, but they're focused, intrigued, holding her own knowledge. )
It may sound contradictory, to let your thoughts wander anywhere else but the desire to draw more power from within yourself— but have you considered in moments of intensity to focus on something more mundane, like counting the number of punches you throw, or the length of the breaths you take in? Something to ground yourself.