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sailor-cresselia · 6 years ago

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Zi-O 41: *SCREAMING*

:THE BLOGGER IS NOT OKAY WITH THIS:

We open with the final scene from episode 40; Sougo charging Oma Zi-O, after getting a pair of Blade transformation screens (specifically, Blade and Garren’s) thrown at him, and a green-and-purple whirlwhind sent in his direction. Interestingly, when the whirlwind connects, the W emblem rises up along with the explosion. After attempting to trade punches – with zero effect on Sougo’s part – the kid summons Build with his Grand Zi-O panel, and. Oma Zi-O summons Kuuga.

Sougo uses the same technique as in 40 – he touches the figurine, the Build emblem appears while the name is announced, and a window reading 2017 moves backward, with Build appearing through it. Oma Zi-O, however, just holds out a hand, with the Kuuga emblem showing up with the same announcement. Notably, the emblem here is torso-sized, as opposed to figurine-sized. Kuuga appears in a bit of a blur, but there is a distinct lack of any other adornment.

Oma Zi-O’s jump over the two now-fighting riders has a bit of a flashstep effect to it, which is. Worrying. Also it breaks my heart a little to see Build and Kuuga fighting, which is not helped in the slightest by my having recently finished Decade and watching Showa V Heisei for the first time. But as Sougo attempts to hit Oma Zi-O, still with zero effect, Build and Kuuga launch their respective Rider Kicks at each other – no announcements from the Build Driver, which is probably for the best. Build disappears in an explosion, shortly followed by Kuuga winking out of existence.

Hm….

OH NO. SOUGO NO! YOU STILL HAVEN’T PROPERLY GOTTEN THE DRIVE WATCH! DON’T USE DRIVE!

See what you’ve done? Now Oma Zi-O’s taken control of him, with a scary red spark effect, and definite sounds of struggle that are very much Shinnosuke’s voice. His helmet’s eyes momentarily light up red, and the standard Tridoron horn sound plays – and then plays again, slowed way the heck down.

And it’s really nice to see the Type Speed finisher again, and to hear Krim announcing the Tridoron, but! Those are still Shinnosuke’s grunts of effort! And said finisher is being launched to great effect at Sougo! To the point of knocking him out of Grand, and back to being just plain old Sougo.

Woz warps in – with a very Time Jacker-y blur to his first few steps – and rushes to Sougo’s side, helping him up. And Sougo is angry when he asks why he can’t even touch his future self.

“You haven’t obtained the powers of all the Riders.”

And at least SOMEONE based in 2019 remembers that we still haven’t had a Drive arc! Namely, Woz, reminding Sougo, the kids at home, and the production staff, that the Drive watch we currently have was stolen from 2068 by Geiz.

…I wonder why they went with Ghost and Drive. I know that at least part of the reason is that the staff wasn’t sure if they’d be able to get the actors back, but that didn’t exactly stop them in other arcs.

SOUGO NO! You can’t go trying to fight him still! You’re not transformed! You can barely walk!

I don’t think we have ever seen Sougo actually angry before. Not like this – all furious and glaring, desperate to take. Him. Down. Not that it helps him at all, not with the massive explosions that Oma Zi-O is setting off around him.

Woz’s scarf is so handy. He sends it out to wrap around Sougo, warping him away.

“For personal reasons, I have decided to side with Past You.”

Oma Zi-O looks surprised, but then. Woz starts walking up to him. (Drive is still here, by the way!)

Oma Zi-O: “Well done, Woz. You’ve made a wise choice.”

Me: wait what.

Woz: “It is my pleasure.”

Me: Wait WHAT?

A multicolored rippling effect washes over the area, incidentally fading Drive out of existence.

Woz: wait what.

Oma Zi-O: Oh, looks like someone’s changed the flow of time...

The entire scene fades out – in a manner very reminiscent of what you see when film footage dissolves.

Sougo wakes up on the ground, in a location that we haven’t seen before. A mansion is at the top of the staircase. In front of said mansion…

Me: WAIT WHAT?!

In front of said mansion is a statue. The statue… is of Kakogawa Hiyru, Another Zi-O, in his not-so-civilian form that we saw in the preview. He’s holding his Another Watch at his waist, in the manner he previously used to transform, and is surrounded by Another Riders in action poses. It’s all grey and aged, with a plague at the base that I can’t read, because RiderTime didn’t sub it. But I’m willing to bet that it says “In commemoration of the first transformation of Kakogawa Hiryuu.”

I AM THREE MINUTES IN. THIS HAS TAKEN A HALF HOUR, WITH THE REWINDING TO CATCH DETAILS AND THE TYPING. SEND HELP.

Okay I made the grave mistake of jumping into Discord for a minute, and have promptly left Discord, but not before being cued in to look carefully at the Another Rider statues.

So, the first shot of them… From left to right, we see Kiva, OOO, Fourze, Ghost, Build, Ex-Aid, Gaim, and Wizard. Interestingly, all of them except for Build are doing their Rider’s signature poses, albeit with the standard corruption. Because Early Installment Weirdness is such a thing for Another Build that he was basically feral, and that has clearly carried over.

I can’t get over how the statues are just. Clearly still shots of the actual characters with a really bad filter over them, and terribly CG’d in. The budget for this episode must be going tot he fight scenes. … HUH. From the back, it looks like Another Build is trying to do Sento’s pose, albeit with considerably less success than everyone else. I guess the terrible filter made it really hard to see from the front, with him overlapping all of the other sections.

Okay, as the camera pans down to the plague, I see Another Agito on the right, and I can’t for the life of me make out who that is second from the left, but. The second from the right sure looks like it has Decade’s shoulders. And the head on the left sure looks like a warped version of Drive’s helmet.

Guess we’re getting Another Drive and Decade after all!

Woz’s Recap this week is him on an inexplicable bench swing in the middle of a wooded area, with Sougo none the wiser to his presence as he stumbles around the trees.

And apprently, by ‘the flow of time has changed’, we mean Woz warped Sougo to yet another alternate timeline, except this time it’s 2019, and he’s implying that the future where Sougo becomes Oma Zi-O has been completely derailed.

And that mansion is in a wooded area, alright. A large one, several city blocks worth. And we can tell.

Because we get a zoom-out, and see that it’s in the middle of a city.

With a whole lot of sirens in the background.

And a whole lot of buildings on fire.

!!!

New opening narration for the OP!

RiderTime translates it as… “The Heisei Kamen Riders have run through the era. Their powers now collected, the curtain of the final battle has risen! Clear the way! For the future of the True King!”

For reference, the previous narration, as subbed by RT, is “The Heisei Kamen Riders have run through the Heisei era. A new legend is starting that inherits all their powers. Rejoice! For the birth of the new King!”

And as translated by Overtime, it’s “The legacy of the Heisei Kamen Riders has carried on throughout the era. Once their power has been passed on, a new legend begins… Rejoice! For the birth of the ultimate king!”

The shot of () in the OP has been replaced by all the Heisei Riders striking their poses, and then coalescing into a ball of light, which breaks and shows Grand. First with just the helmet – then zooming out to a fullbody shot, with the 20 emblems fanning out behind him in a circle… and those odd circles of light dropping down around him, that I failed to mention from the first Grand transformation last time.

Sougo emerges from the forest into a city apparently at war. Rubble is strewn everywhere, and several people in fatigues with guns run by down the street, the sound of gunfire in the distance. Sougo, time-traveler that he is, goes to pick up a tattered poster, confirming that it is, in fact, 2019.

Our camera zooms out, freezeframing with the sound of a camera shutter and framing the scene.

Hey there, Tsukasa! Nice to see you again, you wonderful troll, you! He’s in fatigues – clearly what he was assigned when he arrived here – and. TWO cameras. Tsukasa, ffs. He’s still got his Magenta one, but also a brown one – that is some variant on a polaroid instant camera, since it ejects a photo right after he takes it. It’s about time he learned to carry something like that.

And his photos are still supernaturally bad – with all their eerie foreshadowing abilities intact. Case in point…

Tsukasa: “So, this is the end of this world.”

He pulls the printed photo from the camera.

Tsukasa: “Then what will you do now, Tokiwa Sougo?”

We see the photo. There’s none of the recurring double-imaging here that used to be seen in so many of Tsukasa’s pictures. Instead… Sougo is half faded from existence, the wall and abandoned shop stall showing through him in places.

(Also, Tsukasa looks exhausted. Get some sleep, sir.)

There’s barricades and fencing outside of 9-to-5. It’s not a clock repair shop anymore.

It’s a resistance shelter.

And one of the people, a woman tending someone’s wounds, asks who Sougo is.

And his uncle doesn’t recognize him – tries to attack him with a daikon radish, even.

Tsukuyomi’s voice comes in over the radio, saying that Another Riders are attacking a shelter, asking someone to send help.

Sougo asks where it is, and says he’ll be right back, running off.

Junichiro: (scandalized) “Young people these days act overfamiliar… even though we just met!”

Ow, my heart.

Another Kiva and OOO are attacking some refugees. Please note, literal machine guns have no effect on them! That’s! That’s just great!

(I’m still not okay with the eyes on Another Kiva’s shoulders, BTW.)

Geiz – in armor – and Tsukuyomi work to fight off the Another Riders and get the former civilians out of there, respectively. Geiz draws Another OOO away, and Tsukuyomi gets Kiva off of a group. At least the Faiz Phone X can make them flinch, if only a little. Enough to actually serve as a nuisance, before Another Kiva lifts her by the neck as Sougo runs in.

He knocks Kiva off of her, by vaulting over the staircase railing and nailing them with a kick, and asks if she’s okay. Tsukuyomi also does not recognize him!

Hey, Sougo, maybe at least try using your name when you’re trying to totally-not-re-introduce yourself to people who don’t know who you are? It might help, I dunno, jog some memories locked by the time distortion.

You know, I’ve commented before on how Sougo could take hits really well at the beginning of the season. But now he’s full body tackling Another Riders, knocking them back. Actually, no, scratch that. After Tsukuyomi paused time for everyone in the room sans herself – good for her – and grabs the Faiz Phone X to shoot Another Kiva, when time starts back up? Said Another Rider goes after her, and Sougo just blocks them. Just takes the hit, arms raised defensively, and Another Kiva is the only one to be knocked back. Sougo doesn’t even budge. This young man is made of iron.

And also very confused as to why Geiz would think that he would run, proceeding to pull out the Zi-O II watch, transforming.

Geiz knows who Zi-O is.

I somehow doubt he knows the same Zi-O as we do, though.

Also, for this Geiz, at least, the Time Burst kick can be channeled through just. Straight up holding Another OOO against the wall with his foot, and charging the attack down through his leg, exploding Another OOO with a notable coin effect amid the flames.

And although we can’t exactly seen Geiz’s face, because helmet, he’s probably sharing Tsukuyomi’s scared expression right now.

What, no stained glass effects when Sougo’s finisher takes out Another Kiva? I’m disappointed.

Tsukuyomi and Geiz come on the underground scene… and Tsukuyomi immediately shoots Sougo several times with her blaster. Geiz is ready to do a violence, and proceeds to start attacking.

Geiz: “So you’ve made your presense known, Zi-O – today you meet your end!”

Sougo: “Why?”

Geiz: “I’ll defeat the Great Overlord and save this world!”

Geiz: “That is our, the Resistance’s, mission in life!”

I noticed that he used the term ‘daimyō’ there – not whichever term it is he usually uses to refer to Oma Zi-O in the regular timeline. Interesting. Though, to be fair… the preview shots of Hiryuu looked like he was using a very different version of absolutely terrible taste than the regular Oma Zi-O.

A single direct blow from Revive Fury is all it took to knock Sougo out of his transformation.

He’s so confused, and scared, because nobody recognizes him, and he doesn’t know what’s going on. He can’t get any answers, and he’s so sad that his only family and friends, the only ones he’s had around him in years, have no idea who he is. Are all so willing to attack him.

To the point of when Sougo is practically begging to be told what’s happened. Geiz attacks him.

Still transformed.

Still using Revive Fury.

Still using the buzzsaw.

Sougo’s not transformed.

Me: :BARELY CONTAINED SHRIEKING:

There’s a painful looking slice on Sougo’s arm and cheek – there are scorch marks where his shirt was cut open.

Geiz refuses to listen to anything Sougo has to say… and readies another attack.

Aimed right at the prone Sougo’s neck.

Me: THIS IS NOT FINE.

I mean, yes, time paused, leaving Sougo free to move – BUT VERY CLEARLY HAVING BEEN AT MOST A SECOND FROM LITERAL DECAPITATION.

AHHHHHHH!

But… who paused time? UHR. Telling Sougo to run, unless he wants to die there. Sougo rolls to his feet, and stumbles away down the tunnel. When Uhr unpauses time, we see that Geiz and Tsukuyomi definitely still know about the Time Jackers, although not Uhr specifically, with her aiming the phone-blaster at him, and him just skipping off and presumably disappearing once he gets out of their line of sight.

He can’t let them kill Zi-O now.

Here on a roof – a decidedly shabbier roof than usual – we find out that the three Time Jackers are still around… and that they, at least, know who Sougo is. Know that he has an incredible power, and that going after him with brute force won’t work. So, Swartz is going to leave the new overlord to Hora, for now.

And here’s something interesting. I’ve always thought that Swartz was clearly their superior. But.

Hora thought their positions were equal. Swartz smirks as she storms off, followed shortly by Uhr leaving in the other direction.

And yet again, we have evidence for Swartz having a different plan than everyone else.

Hat!Woz called him ‘Sir Swartz’, and was acting largely according to a plan they shared.

The previews for Over Quartzer imply that Scarf!Woz’s outfit is a uniform for the group trying to stop Sougo from ever having the chance to obtain the Drive watch.

And they all have those grommets scattered all over their wardrobes.

Different sides of the same group? Different departments, where the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing?

Interesting.

Back to the former shop…

The more things change, huh?

Junichiro is still a nice guy, offering to make something for Geiz and Tsukuyomi to eat.

Tsukuyomi has her doubts about Sougo being the overlord, since he did help defeat the Another Riders.

But Geiz has a point, too. An overlord probably wouldn’t hesitate to take out his minions to fool people. (You know. Like might be going on with Woz.) The Time Jackers are still the enemy, in some way, and Uhr helped him. And, most damning of all, he transformed into Zi-O.

Geiz vows… he’s going to take him down.

Sougo, in pain, is by a riverside. It’s… it’s really depressing to see the abandoned bicycles just laying there. And Woz, at least, still seems ot remember him.

…or, maybe not. He’s acting incredibly restrained, not even really looking at Sougo, and hasn’t… actually… indicated directly that he knows who Sougo is. But he has seen the statue, and knows it’s of Hiryuu.

He saw it because Hora took him there.

…Wait. Sougo. SOUGO DO YOU NOT KNOW HORA’S NAME?!

Okay, just gonna put the realization that our main trio might not even know the time jackers names aside for now, because we’ve got bigger issues.

Namely, that Sougo’s future as Oma Zi-O has disappeared from the book. (Dark Toei, give us the forbidden book backstory.)

Namely, that Woz has decided to serve a new Overlord.

Namely, said overlord is Kakogawa Hiryuu.

That he wants to pay back the humiliation of being told to live in the present, instead of the past, of ‘not being chosen’.

And, since we’re having a dark mirror of what Sougo could have been, if he’d grown up bitter…

Let’s have a dark reprise of one of Sougo’s old catchphrases.

Hiryuu: “So, I’m going to give this a try.”

Hiryuu: I’ll take everything away from you, and then you can try ‘living in the present’.

And now…

He’s not Another Zi-O.

He’s Another Zi-O II.

…Is it just me, or does he have an actual Driver? Because when he holds his watch at his waist, that black copy of the Ziku Driver appears first, and then the rest of his form as an Another Rider.

And that Driver looks an awful lot like a black copy of Oma Zi-O’s, but with a watch attached on the right-hand side.

Sougo is still heavily beaten up, and it looks like he’s struggling a bit to raise his arms enough to insert the watches, even though he’s not using his usual flair. He’s putting them in before he puts his driver on.

Grand Zi-O starts to charge at Another Zi-O II.

Geiz and Tsukuyomi are trying to find Zi-O, but not having any luck.

That is, not until Uhr shows up, saying that Zi-O is running amok, and offering to tell them where he is.

With an incredibly smug look on his face.

The right hand doesn’t know what the left one is doing, either.

Back at the Zi-O Vs Zi-O fight, Hiryuu just straight up summons copies of Another Agito, Den-O, and Gaim out of thin air.

Agito appears with green smoke and a single light, coming from right about belt-level.

Gaim still has the orange smoke and juice-droplet effect from last time we saw Another Zi-O.

Den-O has lines of light around him that look distinctly like the lines in Actual Den-O’s attacks.

(Where was this attention to detail in the first arc?! They got much better at it pretty quickly, actually, distracting forced-amnesia subplot be damned, but still!)

Sougo summons Den-O and Gaim to take on their respective Another Riders – both of whom have those windows, still – and takes on Another!Another Agito himself. All three Another Riders go down simultaneously.

But. You know. Hiryuu is Zi-O II now.

And Zi-O II can do more than predict the future.

He just reverses the attack, rewinding time for the three Another Riders, and incidentally turning daytime into night. The same rainbow ripple effect from earlier shows up as he does it.

The Another Riders de-spawn Sougo’s summons, and he tries to defeat them with his “Giri Giri Slash” finisher… only for Hiryuu to undo that, and turn it back into daytime.

Sougo is just getting his ass KICKED today!

…and then machine gun fire blocks Hiryuu and his mooks from going further after him.

Shots fired by one Kadoya Tsukasa, still in miliary fatigues, with a magenta button-up underneath and matching bandanna tied around his arm.

TSUKASA, you’re STILL wearing two cameras! At least. At least let the pseudo-polaroid not be brown. Maybe a nice violet color, you know, for Natsumi, or a bright Cyan for Daiki. Even a yellow or some such for Yusuke.

(Yes, I ship them as an OT4. Come at me. I’ll carry my Photo Studio Polycule forever.)

So, this speech Tsukasa’s giving… it’s a pep talk. Yes, in his standard, trolling manner, but a pep talk nonetheless. “So, you’re just giving up here? Because it got hard? Because they left you? You were all high-and-mighty, going on about being a King, but here you are, an Overlord. Did you want this because they came to you? Or did they come to you because you wanted this?”

“This world is coming to it’s destruction. The only way you can stop it is to defeat Kakogawa Hiryuu.”

And at one point, Tsukasa lifts the BSOD’ing Sougo up by the collar, and he’s almost entirely limp. Just, being jerked around, almost slumping back down to the ground when he’s pushed against the wall.

Sougo stumbles off at Tsukasa’s challenge. He! Is in no way able to fight at this point! He’s just gotten beaten up three times in less than a day, all of which were very brutal! This boy! Is not okay!

The three Another Riders show up.

Tsukasa: “Defeat them, and then we’ll talk.”

So, Sougo enters Grand Zi-O. Almost reluctantly, it takes him a moment to even pull out his belt, but he still goes into battle.

(I do appreciate that they don’t show the full Grand transformation every time. Unlike certain other anniversary riders. Tsukasa. Fricking. Six episodes having to watch the full transformation into Complete. UGH. That was painful. If it were a better form, or a better sequence, I wouldn’t have been as made. But Complete is ugly, and the transformation cutscene for it is just. Bad.)

Sougo summons Den-O and Gaim’s weapons to take out the respective copies, and that leaves Agito. Who, you know. Doesn’t always have a weapon – his and Kuuga’s are form-based, unlike the more recent riders.

SO INSTEAD!

Sougo pulls out a translucent COPY of Agito, and sort of. Just. Merges with it to do Agito’s Rider Kick.

THAT’S REALLY CLEVER!

Tsukasa seems at least a little impressed. But here comes Geiz, going straight into Revive Typhoon, saying that he’s going to take Zi-O down to save the world.

And while Geiz is attacking at normal speed, so Sougo could have dodged…

But he doesn’t.

He just takes the hit.

We close out to the end screen, with the Another Den-O and Another Agito watches in the back… and once again, the Zi-O watch, glitching and being replaced by the Another Zi-O watch.

In the preview…

Zi-O II, Geize Revive Fury, and DECADE fighting Another Zi-O II.

Sougo: “There’s no point in fighting Geiz.”

A bunch of fight scenes, with Swartz saying that someone will help him, and Hiryuu sitting on a throne.

Daiki’s coming back! And still going on about treasure, because of course he is. (Still mad at Tsukasa about the first Super Hero Taisen movie, I’m guessing)

Tsukasa – still in the army jacket, but seeming to have ditched the helmet – spin kicking Another Build away from Tsukuyomi, and holding an honest to Gaim PISTOL.

AND SON OF A-

SOUNDS LIKE TSUKUYOMI IS, IN FACT, SWARTZ’S SISTER.

Or, at least, that’s what she’s being told, and Uhr – who looks to have just been holding a Faiz Phone X to Tsukuyomi’s head, being just as surprised as her.

THIS IS FIN-

YOU KNOW WHAT NO NONE OF THIS IS FINE.

THIS EPISODE IS SCARY.

So, Tsukasa’s ‘pep talk’. That’s the voice of experience that he’s using. That’s a man who has done the whole ‘evil ruler’ thing, and would really rather not see his latest successor go down that route. He’s just. Kind of terrible at saying it.

And of course he’s trying to point out to Sougo that he needs to rely on his allies, if in a roundabout way.

It was only because of Natsumi, Yusuke, and Daiki remembering him that he came back to life, after all.

Memories are a powerful thing in Kamen Rider. We just came off of the Den-O arc, which is largely powered by memories, and to go right into people not remembering that Sougo exists… well. There can’t be a coincidence that it’s also a Tsukasa arc now.

Also, as a note, we had some of the first decent shots of Oma Zi-O’s belt in this episode. Previously, we only got to see one side of it, the one not obstructed by his sash. This time… well.

The places that used to be for Ridewatches? Those look an awful lot like the extensions on the Grand watch.

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thewildheroine · 7 years ago

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Fly Away |Twenty-Eight|

Warnings: PTSD flashback, child abuse, child death, injury, angst

Word Count: 5.8K

Pairing: Peter Parker x Reader

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|Masterlist|

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Quiet. Out of all the things I've come to hate, quiet is by far the worst. It makes sense, seeing that I've spent so much time escaping it now.

I hate the quiet now because it means that I'm alone. That they're not here next to me. There's no Nat chuckling as I talk about cute things Peter does because she knows that no matter how many times I tell her I don't do boy talk, she knows I want to. There's no Bucky insulting my fighting to motivate me even though in his eyes I see that he's a little impressed by how much I'm holding up. There's no Steve subtly praising my fighting technique when I'm barely able to get out choppy breaths. There's no Sam calling me Y/N Stark just because it makes Tony annoyed. There's no hushed breathing as walk beside Stephen, him showing me around the sanctum while he begrudgingly lets the cloak rest on my shoulders. There's no Tony rambling on about new suit designs as he yanks the coffee mug away from me, murmuring about how it's gonna rot my teeth. There's no peter tracing little symbols on my skin, whispering sweet nothings in my ear as he holds me close to I can hear his heart. God now that I've known their noise I hate the silence their absence brings me.

I lean against the exit to the small room I've been given. Light comes in streams through the intricately barred window. My knees are pressed to my chest as I rock back and forth, the cold powder still held inside my clenched fist. The Cloak of Levitation has landed on my shoulders again to help comfort me. While one corner holds my arm in place to prevent more damage to my collarbone the other moves in circles over my shoulder the same way Stephen would do when I was stressed out by something. I feel the difference though. There is no consistent shaking while the cloak moves back and forth. I can't hear its quiet breathing the way I could hear Strange's when he would stand behind me, his attention unevenly split between me and something he had been concentrating on minutes earlier.

I hear and feel the difference, because Strange wouldn't be silent and he wouldn't be steady. Not truly at least.

Sighing, I stand up, the cloak aiding me so that I don't trip. When I step out of my room I find the same thing that was haunting me in the depths of my dark room. No one is out. Everyone either working on healing Peter or sleeping or maybe fretting about the invasion, seeking hope in withered books. It must be nice to be searching for hope now. To believe so desperately that one can find it in the simplest thing. A book, a drop of rain, a set of eyes. I can only imagine that now though. Hope.

(ALL WARNINGS BEYOND THIS BABES!!!)

"Miss Y/L/N," someone calls across the halls. I stare up at a sorcerer whose dark brown eyes look weary as I approach. His coal colored hair has been pushed back and out of his eyes and his mouth is screwed up as he stares down at my placid expression. Fear tingles in my chest as I realize what he might tell me.

Peter is dead, my thoughts whisper. He's dead and he's not coming back. If only you had just accepted the deal when Dormammu told you. Then Stephen wouldn't be dead and neither would-

"He's okay," the short man says before my dark thoughts can blossom further. "At least he will be. We were able to stop the bleeding with magic but the rest he must do on his own. I heard he has enhanced healing," he comments. My eyes remain on the door behind him instead of replying.

My mind flashes to the ancient memory of hospital lights overhead. The smell of hand sanitizer fills up my nostrils and I can hear the shouts of dozens of people as I drag the girl into the hospital, covering my hands is her slick blood. She moans, her insides aching the more I move her. She's younger than me. Younger and so, so small. Her body makes the hole right through her diaphragm seem so much bigger. So, so much bigger. Silent tears drip from my gaping eyes as a nurse with long, charcoal colored hair that has been tied into a ponytail and a short body picks her up from my arms and brings her to a hospital room.

I look down at the blood on my hands. Her angry, hot red blood that still drips from my fingers. My body slumps and I'm suddenly sitting on the floor of the hospital hallway, still watching as thick crimson drops from my hands and onto the linoleum.

The nurse comes back out, sadness and empathy etched all over his face. He kneels in front of me and places a soft hand on my gouged knee.

"I'm sorry," he whispers, his voice unbelievably kind for a time like this. "She's gone." I can't respond, guilt trapped in my throat. "We know that you did your best to get her here in time and we're all very proud that you stood up for her against that man, but we are going to need you to speak to the police. Is that okay, sweetheart?" Still nothing. The nurse swallows. "I'm going to get a wet rag to clean up your cuts really quick." I don't bother watching him as he stands and walks down the hallway.

Then I hear someone growl lowly. My eyes don't need to look up to know that it's my father coming for me. He doesn't bother speaking nor does he look at the deep cuts he inflicted upon my knees when he tossed me away from the little girl. My friend. All he does is grab my wrist and teleport us back home before the nurse can come clean my cuts.

Before I even have a chance to apologize his open palm comes down on my face. I'm thrown to the side my body slamming into the couch. My eyes are wide with horror. I turn back to him. Rage rolls off of him in droves and I want nothing more than to fall to the ground and curl into a tight ball that is impossible for him to touch. I stay upright though, basically waiting for the next blow.

"I told you to never tell anyone about your magic," he hisses, venom rolling off his tongue like it's his native language. "Now look what you've done." His hand smashes against my face again, only this time it is closed into a tight fist. Now I tumble to the ground, taking the chance to draw my knees over my face and prepare. Then the kick comes. At first they hit my shins, drawing screams and yelps of pain from my lips, but once they find my stomach they stay there. The heel of his boots connects with kidneys, my stomach, and my lungs before doing the process all over again. Blood dribbles from my wide mouth that has stopped producing shrieks of pain.

That night, when my father finally leaves, I fall asleep on the floor praying that my friend forgives me for showing her magic.

"Y/N," the man says suddenly, drawing my attention to reality. I nod numbly, showing that I acknowledge his statement before passing him and stepping past the door. The moment I do I shut my eyes hard, only needing one glance at Peter to know this is not something I want to see.

Hesitantly, I start opening my eyes again, my eyelashes fluttering to reveal a messy picture of Peter on a wooden slab that was thrown together haphazardly. The more my eyes widen the more I see. Above him, gold emblems are circling in a constant state of healing. His face is pale. So much paler than the tan ivory that I've come to find familiar. His hair is stiff on his forehead, hardened by old sweat and ash and so, so much blood.

As I'm looking at him tears start falling from my eyes mercilessly. My body shakes and quivers as I try to stifle all the strangled noises that try to escape my mouth. A few sharp gasps draw air into my lungs before I screw my lips shut again.

I move towards Peter slowly. If I were to go any faster than I could only imagine the way I would collapse on top of him. Even going at such a slow pace my feet threaten to trip me and I have to depend on the cloak to keep me upright. The closer I get to him the more I find. The gashes and bruises covering his face, blood still caked into his stubby fingernails, his mouth, just barely open to suck in air.

When I finally reach him, I don't dare touch him. Instead, I let my hands flow over the lines of his weak body, tracing every cell without touching any. My heart flutters as my palm hovers over his heart. I concentrate my magic and listen to the beating of the muscle. It's so slow. So quiet.

I open my eyes again only for them to immediately focus on a pocket connected to the side of his suit. The fabric stretches over whatever Peter keeps inside. Finding myself curious I reach forward and tug it out. My free hand recognizes the shape and feeling and my heart goes from sinking to soaring and back again as I gently pull Tony's glasses from Peter's pocket. How he got a hold of them I have no idea. I barely remember bringing them to the Sanctum in the first place.

Suddenly, my tears begin falling again, grief taking over everything ounce of my being. I cling to the orange-tinted sunglasses, my thumb following the crack in the display. Everything I've ever had and hoped for has been taken away by one person. One person is to blame for almost everything horrible that has happened in my life and it isn't Dormammu.

"Y/N?" Friday asks. I jump at the sound of her voice. Even the Cloak of Levitation clenches around my shoulders, prepared to drag me away. I raise the glasses to my face and turn them around. They fit on my face perfectly and the display lights up over my eyes.

"Friday," I whisper back, relieved.

"Y/N," her voice is fritzing and I have to dedicate my attention to her to hear, "something is wrong. I can't connect t-to any systems."

"I know," I mumble, "I know. I don't think you'll be able to connect for a while."

I wait for a response but it never comes. The screen still changes and moves though, informing me that the speakers may have just broken. I sigh and rub my red, stinging eyes. Outside I can hear a few sorcerers stir, but other than that the world is still silent.

"Friday," I begin, an idea stirring up in my mind, "can you hear me?" YES flickers across the broken screen. "Can you pull up the camera for me?" A second passes, and then two, and finally the camera function pulls up the screen. I look at Peter through the display. I imagine him waking up, confused as to where he is but safe. Safe because of what I'm about to do.

Slowly, I pull the glasses off my face and set them on a window sill that is about a foot lower than my head. I take a few steps back to make sure I'm in the frame and look at Peter, whose limp body is still laying patiently on the wooden slab. Waiting for what I will do next.

"Start the video," I command. My eyes linger on Peter a moment longer even though I can hear the beep that comes from Tony's glasses. "You're confused," I start speaking. "That is if you even find this, which even that I'm unsure of." Finally, I turn towards the glasses, my eyes already rimming with tears again.

"I've never done this," I inform. "Goodbyes I mean. I never had the chance to. My mother died before hello, my father disappeared without leaving so much as a note, and people have left my life before I could even find a way to care enough to say goodbye." I stare down at my worn shoes, dirt covering the entire top. "So I'm sorry if this isn't the right way to do it. The kind way. Don't blame me though. I've never really had a good example when it comes to this.

I look up. "So goodbye. This is... the end," I remark. "If I play my cards right it won't be the end for you all though. Just-" I choke up on something, the acceptance of what I'm planning to do just now setting in. "It will just be the end for me. I've been given a choice by Dormammu, though I don't think I can call it choice anymore. It's you guys or me. My magic or the end I fear more than anything else. Your end. The end of everyone who I love.

"My end doesn't bother me though," I tell them. "I'm not saying that I'm not scared because I am undeniably terrified. All I'm saying is that I think I've been preparing for it my whole life. More than enough times I've believed I was going to die. Whether it would be by my father's hand or the hand of magic was always unknown to me. The only thing I was unprepared for was that it wasn't any of those things that would bring me to the end of myself. It was me. Maybe even you. I've been gifted with an actual life. A life I enjoy and now it's time for me to give in. Do what Dormammu asks." I look above the window and out the window. Outside I can hear the shrill cry of a crow as it flaps overhead, it's wings beating hard to lift it further into the sky.

"There is something Dormammu doesn't understand though. The one thing that is stronger than him." A smile splinters across my face and I stare right into the glasses. "The hatred I possess for my father. The man who sent me down this path of ruin that gave me one of the things I desired more than anything else, family, before ripping it away ruthlessly. He took away everything. My planet, my family, my hope, and now... my magic." I tilt my head. "Let him have it. All of it.

"This is the story of how I come to the end of myself," I confirm. "But it is also the story of how I take my father to the end as well." My eyes shift to Peter one more time. He stirs under the glow of magic and I know that I need to finish the video before he wakes up. "And I know how all stories like this end. My father told me enough times that the words have been carved into my brain. I'm already falling, and now it's time for me to sink. I am the Icarus, but I'll be damned if my father doesn't go beneath the waves with me," my voice turns to a whisper. "I will complete the deal. I will give up my magic and go to wherever my father waits in return for all of your lives, and although I've lost all my hope. Although there is nothing left for me to stay here for unless I want more death and ruin, I will fight with every ounce of courage I have left in me. I will fight my father and I will fight Dormammu. That is when the time is right."

I take a pause, my eyes looking to the dark sky once more. The silhouette of a crow crosses over a bright planet. The breeze catches its wings, and it halts the flapping of its wings for a moment so that it may float.

Hello Icarus.

"Thank you for everything," I tell the camera without looking away from the window. "Thank you for loving me in all the ways I never thought a person could and then loving me more. I may have found my end, but thank you for making it a good one." Next to me, I hear a rustling as Peter starts to wake up. His eyes squeeze together, the pale lights above already becoming too much for his sensitive eyes.

"Y/N," he murmurs. Although it may just be a glimpse of his dream escaping the real world and I look back to the glasses.

"Stop the video," I whisper. I hear the beep as Tony's glasses shut down again. Moving silently, I grab the glasses and tuck them in my back pocket where Peter won't be able to see them. When I turn back his eyes have finally pushed themselves open. His brown orbs trek the whole room in a single second before landing on me.

"Y/N?" he asks. I fake a smile and step towards him. His hand rubs at his left temple softly, trying to work away the concussion that still remains in his head. "Why are we here? What happened?" Peter glances around, his eyes searching for something now. When he looks to me there is a hint of fear in his eyes. "Where's Strange?" he wonders.

The question hits me like an arrow to the heart. I open my mouth to say something. He died protecting us. He fought and went down a hero. Stephen died so I could finish this. None of them sound right in my mind though. I bite my bottom lip and look down. Hot water wells up on my tear line. Knowing they'll drip down, I raise my face and look up at the ceiling to stop them. One falls down my cheek anyways though.

When I look at Peter he is staring back at me worriedly, obviously after having just seen the single tear roll down my bruised cheek.

"He did everything he could," I announce weakly. Peter's expression falls.

"Y/N," he whispers in his soft voice, "I'm so sorry." I shake my head and begin walking towards him. It takes every bit of energy in me to hold my head up.

"It's okay," I affirm to each of us. "It will all be okay soon." I ignore the way Peter's face shifts to show his confusion while I lean down and press a short, bittersweet kiss on his chapped lips. A tear drips from my lashes and onto his face, notifying me that I don't have any more time to savor the way he feels. "I need to go now." I force myself away from the boy who watches me curiously.

"Where are you going?" He takes a single moment. "No," Peter whispers finally. I grimace internally and close my eyes, too afraid to see his disappointed gaze. Outside I hear the caw of Icarus, telling me that I don't have much more time left.

"I'm sorry, Peter," I apologize as I step towards the door. "I need to do this." Abruptly, Peter's hand makes contact with my arms and he pulls me back.

"No," he begins to sit up, his hand still holding my free hand tight so I can't try running, "you don't." Peter winces and I automatically go to push him back down to the wooden slab.

"Peter," I murmur, "don't get up. You'll make it worse." While he listens I can still see the burning frustration and fear in his eyes. He holds me tighter and pulls me closer to his face. I let my lips fall to his again. Peter's other hand rises to my cheek. His thumb rubs at the trail my tear made, creating invisible designs with the salty water.

"Then don't go," he whispers against my lips. I open my eyes to see Peter already gazing straight into them. His beautiful irises are glowing with love. Pure unconditional love. "It doesn't have to be this way." I gulp before shifting my left hand in the sling. Magic pulses from my fist and binds Peter to the table. I watch the betrayal settle into his eyes now. It's so contradictory to what I saw seconds earlier.

"It already is," I manage to choke out before standing back up. My eyes water even more as I watch Peter struggle against the neon blue restraints.

"Y/N," he pants, losing his breath quicker than usual, "please don't go." I find myself hating the way he begs. Every atom within me tells me to stay, but I hear Icarus call for me again and I know it's time for me to leave.

"Running is one of my greatest talents, Peter," I admit. He strains against the straps again. His muscles tense underneath the torn fabric of his suit. "At least now I can run toward something." When Peter looks up at me again I'm stunned to see tears are streaming from his eyes too now. His head shakes slowly, his eyes desperate to stay on me for as long as possible.

"Please," he whimpers, "not now." Guilt rises like bile in my throat.

"Peter," I try.

"I don't want to live in a world you're not apart of," he proclaims. My heart squeezes at his statement and both my hands' clench. One into the fabric of the cloak and the other into the powder I'm still holding on to.

"Peter," I say again, only this time my voice has lost its assertive confidence. It drifts into the wind and out the window where the sleek black crow outside glides on it for a moment before it disappears altogether.

"You're my everything, Y/N." I look right into his eyes, my eyes soft.

"No, I'm not," I comment, knowing in my heart that it's true. He has Tony, and Ned, and Michelle, and most importantly Aunt May to be his everything. I'm not his everything. I never was. That's how I know that if I succeed, he'll be okay.

"If you stay," Peter starts, making any promise he can now through his tears, "I will love you in all the ways you deserve. Every piece of you, Y/N. I will love it. Adore it. Put it above everything else." I smile sadly.

"But you already do." Frustration and horror are still brewing in his eyes, but he's silent enough for me to continue. "I don't regret anything Peter, not even a second. I need you to know that. Not meeting you, or going to the park, or giving you my heart." I pet back his stiff hair, my hand lingering for a moment too long. "If I did anything right in my life, it was falling in love with you." Peace ripples through me suddenly and it's enough to carry me through. "Peter, you made me feel loved and wanted and for that, I'll always love you. Just-" I swallow hard, "just don't forget me, please. Don't forget how much I love you. Don't forget anything I just told you."

"Y/N," he cries and my heart quakes again, "please don't leave me." The sight of tears being released from his eyes makes them fall from my own. I close my eyes to concentrate on anything but him falling apart.

"Peter, it's okay," I reassure. "I can be a hero." Peter shakes his head from side to side. His wavy hair jostles because of the action, and I can't help but smile at the sight of it. I wish I could remember the rest of him the way I'm remembering his hair right now. Lovely and uncontrollable and so soft.

"You don't need to be a hero anymore though," he tells me. "You can take a break. Just please stay."

"You're right. I don't need to be a hero. But I am ready to be," I retort with no anger, malice, or frustration in my voice. Only love. That's all I have to offer him. "Yours, theirs, and mine." I lick my lip before leaning in again and pressing a kiss right against his forehead. "I'm sorry, Peter." I stand up, still looking straight into his eyes. "I love you." Peter begins struggling against the restraints again.

"Y/N!" he starts shouting, his voice raspy. I clench my teeth together and keep my eyes on Peter's despite the internal protest going on in my soul.

"Goodbye, Peter," I whisper, the words so impossibly hard to get out of my mouth.

Then I turn away, not willing or able to look him in the eye. The room turns silent for a second as I walk across the room. Both of us hold our breath, still unsure about whether or not I'm even going to really open the door and leave. Leave and accept that this is the end.

"Don't you leave me," Peter whispers, his voice stern despite the level of volume he's speaking at. I hesitate before placing my hand on the bronze nob and turning it. "Don't you dare leave me, Y/N!" he shouts now. I swallow down the shame and step out of the room, turning his screaming into muffled murmurs that I can't quite understand as I shut the door. Once I'm out tears spill freely from my eyes now, glad for there release. I keep moving down the hall, ignoring the eyes of hundreds of sorcerers as I yank Tony's glasses out of my pocket and place it in a small vase where I know it will be safe, praying that it will be found once all of this is over. The cloak lifts off of my shoulders without needed to be persuaded. Far behind me, I can hear Peter cry out again and then I'm stepping out the exit of this sanctuary and into the New York Sanctum.

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I walk down the lonely streets of Manhattan. Street lights and apartment windows blare down at me with their purple light like ever watchful eyes. Behind me I can hear a neon orb smash against a series of buildings, sending the remnants to be spewed across intersections and outdoor shopping malls. My eyes stay locked on what's in front of me though, knowing there is no time to look back. Not anymore.

Every time I pass, street lights flicker, the bulbs sometimes bursting and throwing sparks at my shoulders. One of them stings my neck. I don't bother wincing at the pain though. My thoughts are fluttering from place to place. From the sweet, melancholy of purr of Icarus above, who somehow managed to pass through the recently reconstructed portal with me, to the firm pressure of powder in my left hand.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see the blur of a mutated zealot shooting past. The mark of the Dark Dimension burns in my mind, but I linger on it. I remember the first time I saw it. It was in a spellbook my father forbid me from reading, but I did so anyway when I was alone. I remember the disgust I felt even then. The hatred burning for this place in the depths of my soul since age five. I remember it in my dreams that night and the night after and thousands of nights later.

As I step into Time Square I feel the ground boom in preparation. The Time Stone tries to retaliate but I've made up my mind. Staring at my wrist I force the small snake bangle to slither back into my arm where it came from, my needle hopefully going with it. I see the pulsing green in my wrist as another boom shouts across the city like a drummer is beating his hands against the Earth.

I glare up at the apex of the bright purple staircase, remembering the fear I felt the last time I stood here. Now I feel my fear and I don't bother denying. It is there, living, even thriving inside of me. It makes my heart palpitate and my hands' sweat. But there is something else residing inside of me as well. Something much stronger. A courage I thought I lost only a day ago. The emotion provides me with enough strength to keep striding towards the staircase with only one destination.

As I slosh through puddles I call upon memories of the people I'm doing this for. I watch Thor point to the stars, teaching about my origins. Him pulling a crinkled drawing from his pocket to teach me about the nine realms and the way they work before promising he'll take me one day. I listen to Bucky recall some ancient memory to embarrass Steve. His subtle smile and his dark hair pulled up so that it isn't falling over his face. Something Nat and I begged him to do for months. I thank Steve for picking me up from school when no one else could. His voice is soft as he asks how my day was and if I ate. I answer no and he sighs before pulling into a parking lot and dragging me into some fast-food restaurant so that he can make sure I at least get something in my stomach. I compare wings with Sam who always insists that it is indeed a competition. His groan as I conjure up the glowing outline before he jokingly demands that Tony upgrades his.

"Dormammu," I call, stopping the memories for a moment. The drummer slams his fist against the Earth again, "let's finish this." As the cloud of smoke rises from the ground and blows past my face I don't bother closing my eyes. I let the thick mist sting my eyes and throat as I conjure more memories.

Natasha commenting that I should let her do my hair.

"Y/N," Dormammu responds victoriously. The drums go again. "I suppose that you've come to bargain."

Her, despite my insistent refusal, dragging me to the living room as she combs her fingers through my hair, saying over and over again how if Wanda were here, she'd be making fun of her for hours.

"Yes," I mumble, my mind not allowing me to be loud as I recall these past months. "But I have some additions."

Aunt May pulling me into her kind arms when Peter decides to bring me to the apartment after school.

"And those are," he asks, unamused for a moment.

I tell her about something strange that happened today and she smiles one of her sweet, bright smiles that lights up my entire mood no matter what before she declares that I'm staying for dinner to tell her more about my week.

"I give you my magic," I reply. "All of it. The Time Stone, the natural energy I have inside of me that you so desire."

Tony sitting across the table from me as he shows me the concept design for my suit, his eyes gleaming with both excitement and dedication but also guilt.

"And what do you want in return?" Dormammu doesn't bother shrinking, keeping his original form to intimidate me as much as possible.

Me looking the hologram over, constantly exclaiming about how beautiful it is, and although I can hear Tony scoff, I can see in his expression that he's glad I love it so much. That he only wants to do what's best for me.

"Let all the people who have taken care of me these past few months live," I proclaim. "No harm will come to them. Not during the entire span of this universe and the next. No loopholes allowed." Dormammu considers it a moment.

Stephen coaxing back my hair as I bawl, the memory of my first meeting with Dormammu still so fresh and overwhelming my mind. His touch so unbelievably soft for a man with hands made of scars.

"And you will go with your father?" he wonders in his mind rattling voice.

Me, letting him pull me into his arms, finally admitting to myself that the love he feels for me is nothing less than fatherly. Me, thinking to myself of how much better my life would be if he were.

"I will go with that man," I confirm, finally after so many years telling myself that he does not deserve the title father when I've met a man who does. "I doubt I could have it any other way though." Dormammu smiles.

And Peter. My Peter laying in my bed and staring at the ceiling with me.

Dormammu extends his large, distorted palm to me. "Then let it be finished." I nod and extend my hand as well. Gripping my magic tight I begin to expel it all from my body. A hoarse scream comes with it, my body feeling like it's exploding as I lose the only thing that had always been with me.

His fingers circle the back of my palms. I smile when he begins spelling out different phrases on my skin.

The Time Stone tries clinging to my soul but I overpower it using the last of my magic. Dormammu's smile only grows wider as he pulls it into his own hand, finally feeling the power of his harvest.

It's all going to be okay, Peter writes onto the canvas. His warm breath moves against my cheek. It carries unsaid words with it. Sorry's and I love you's and so many it will get better soon, Y/N I promise's. I believe each because even when Peter is lying, he is telling the truth and that is that he loves me. That he cares even if I don't have faith in that fact sometimes. Even when I'm angry and sad and hopeless.

He loves me. They all do.

As the last of my magic slips away and I feel myself being sucked into a vortex of darkness and light all mixed into one unholy thing I remember how much I believed that Peter was my sun when in fact they all were. They were all my bright, loving sun. They each warmed my wings, making my life better with the rays of pure sunlight they tossed my way every moment they could. I know now that they all warmed my wings. They all coaxed me up into the sky to love me as much as possible. Them, not knowing like I do, that their loving light would be the exact reason I fall.

This was the story of how I came to the end of myself.

I am the Icarus...

And I have loved the sun far too deeply not to burn for it.

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War Doctor

Quotes from War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott

It stems partly from the desire to use my knowledge as a surgeon to help people who are experiencing the worst that humanity can throw at them, and partly from the thrill of just being in those terrible places, of living in a liminal zone where most people have neither been nor want to go.

And wars most affect those who are worst equipped to deal with them.

The dictionary definition of the word “vocation” talks of a “special urge” or of a “calling”—but there are many reasons why people choose to become doctors, and most of them have little to do with altruism. [...] The idea of altruism being in pure opposition to selfishness is nonsense. [...] The paradox of extreme altruism - that it is simultaneously selfish - finds a parallel in the fact that most surgeons take up surgery because they find it exciting.

p. 7: It is a common mistake not to assume the worst.

p.15: I rationalize it by thinking, Well, maybe that Taliban guy or this ISIS fighter will find out his life was saved by a Western, Christian doctor, and that might make him change his outlook. Some people may consider this naive, but that’s how it is.

p. 28: Surgery in the 1980s was a trial of sleep deprivation, of how much you could take before you broke.

p. 44-45: The anesthesiologist and I discussed the option of surgery. We had a choice—operate and try to save his life, or not operate and watch him die. There were no other patients—it was about three in the morning—but we had very limited resources and it was freezing. We looked at the patient and nodded at each other, then took him into the operating room to do what was necessary to stop the bleeding. Once he was under anesthesia and being infused with the only pint of blood we had, I opened his abdomen.

p. 52: I did not know them or their past lives, bu they were very vulnerable and it is the vulnerability of human life that - when it is stripped down to its basics - makes us all the same.

p. 70-71: Usually in this situation the correct surgical procedure is to pack the abdomen as quickly as possible to try to staunch the hemorrhage. I had no time to do this—I had to turn off the faucet as rapidly as possible. I had two options: either open up the chest and put a clamp on the distal thoracic aorta, or delve down as rapidly as I could to feel the aorta with my fingers just below the diaphragm and press it against the lower thoracic vertebra, like pinching the end of a hose. Once I’d got into the abdomen, I chose the latter technique. I called out to my assistant, Squadron Leader David O’Reilly, to pack the abdomen while I squeezed the aorta.

p. 71: Einstein’s theory of relativity can be applied to all sorts of things, including the transference of kinetic energy from a bullet to someone’s body. Einstein’s insight was to show that kinetic energy is equal to half the mass times the velocity squared—the heavier the bullet, the more energy is transferred into the organ that it hits. If the velocity of the bullet is doubled, then the energy released is quadrupled. And when a high-energy bullet from, say, a sniper’s rifle hits a target, then the bullet tends to tumble inside the body. It tumbles because its center of gravity is well behind the point, and as it slows down it becomes unstable. This tumbling effect dissipates huge amounts of energy, so if it hits an organ of high resistance such as the liver, which is enclosed in a layer of connective tissue called Glisson’s capsule, then it can literally blow the liver apart. This is what had happened to our patient.

p. 84: To get the best out of the team around you, you need to radiate serenity. The whole team responds to the lead taken by the operating surgeon. Being aggressive does not help. You are one member of a team who are all working together to achieve the same goal. The person holding the needle is just one small part of the bigger picture.

p. 106: Then the nurse who was with me put his hand into the uterus as well, and lo and behold, the head of the baby popped free. The nurse smiled at me behind his mask and said, “Vide,” which in French means vacuum. He had ingeniously slipped his fingers behind the baby’s head, allowing some air to get between the head and the pelvis and break the seal. It’s a trick I will never forget.

p. 124: One of the rules in resuscitation is that if a patient is conscious and can speak, then he has enough arterial pressure to supply the brain, even though he may have a low blood pressure from hemorrhage.

p. 127: This was the future, I believed—not just parachuting into a war zone, saving the odd life, and then going home; it was about providing a legacy, leaving my temporary colleagues better equipped to deal with an ongoing situation that they themselves could not walk away from.

p. 147: If you can feel a radial pulse, then the pressure is around 90 mmHg systolic. This is sufficient to ensure that all the major organs such as the brain, heart, liver, and kidneys will be well supplied with blood. Even if the patient is significantly injured, if he is in this category then he is P2. The P1 injured are those with obvious difficulty in breathing and who do not have a radial pulse pressure. These are the patients who need urgent care and attention, although everyone requires constant review as those who are P2 may suddenly become P1.

p. 179: It’s just a terrible pity that sometimes the learning has to come from such dreadful mistakes, mistakes that are tattooed onto our psyche.

p. 181: We were able to remove his drains and send him home on day six. Incredibly, a boy with a 100 percent mortality risk a week earlier became the only person in Aleppo to have had a trauma Whipple operation, and we could claim a 100 percent success record for one of the most complex surgical procedures in the book.

p. 189: In London, there were any number of people who could carry out the operations I was doing, and do them just as well if not better. In the UK I might save one person’s life a month, whereas in Syria it had been ten a day. What the hell was I doing here?

p. 205: It wasn’t a logical decision, it was based purely on emotion—compassion for her and anger at the forces of war ranged against her. I was so sick of seeing badly injured children that I could not bear to see another one and stand idly by. Staying with her was a pointless act of defiance against the warmongers, but it would have been impossible to do otherwise. The nature of the risks I was taking had grown without my really noticing. I was prepared to die, and I would rather have died than lived with myself knowing I’d left her alone.

p. 210: I had felt adrift, swimming alone far out at sea, in increasingly dangerous waters, and it was as if someone had thrown me a lifeline.

p. 240: Through much of my life I had felt alone. It was completely irrational that the person who showed me so much love, showed me the way to live a different kind of life, should be the person I was most angry with. I had never felt such love for anyone before, yet I seemed to want to push her away.

p. 251: I have always had a tendency to focus on specific tasks and pursue them relentlessly, sometimes flying in the face of all logic or common sense.

p. 275: Love, like surgery, isn’t always tidy, and it isn’t always easy.

p. 277: Early on it became clear that David’s humanitarian work is an intrinsic part of who he is. Although I found this hard at first, having worried so desperately when he was working in Syria, I fully support him in what he does—to do otherwise would not only deny David his passion but also deprive the world of his skills, which are so desperately needed.

p. 278: Surgery hasn’t had the profile of other health issues such as communicable or preventable diseases. Yet surgically treatable conditions kill 17 million people each year; more than tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV/AIDS combined, according to a study in The Lancet. We therefore seek to promote the skillful and safe practice of surgery in low-resource or war-torn settings as well as advocate for the rights of the medical victims of conflict and the doctors who strive to care for them.

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Coincidence Ch2

As promised, the second part of the Kill Ari AU I’m posting for Tiva Fic Amnesty.

More details in the A/N of Part 1

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“You tried to kill me this morning,” Tony said, not taking his eyes of Ziva.

Ziva’s eyes narrowed almost imperceptibly. Clearly she had underestimated this Agent DiNozzo. There was no way he could’ve known it was her on the rooftop. He must’ve put two and two together and figured that her bumping into him earlier that day was not a coincidence.

“If I had tried to kill you, you would not be standing here.”

“That’s what your sister said. So why didn’t you? Didn’t want to remove my handsome features from the gene pool?” he quipped. When in doubt, deflect with humor, that was his motto, anyway. His joking had proved useful on many occasions; distracting suspects, putting victims at ease. It also earned him a head slap from his boss every now and then.

The fact that he wasn’t on the floor in a pool of his own blood reassured him, ever so slightly, that Ziva must have had a good reason not to kill him. Having a gun aimed at his head was getting on his nerves, though.

“You can lower the gun, you know, I’m unarmed. It’s surprisingly hard to bring a gun into Israel, even for a US federal agent with all the right papers.”

He was pretty sure she already knew he was a federal agent, but figured it couldn’t hurt to remind her. The US government would not take kindly to a dead federal agent on Israeli soil. And Israel needed all the help they could get from their allies.

“You do not need a gun to kill someone,” Ziva replied

“Well, I don’t see anything here I could possibly use as a weapon, so I think –“

He had been slowly lowering his hands, when a little flick upwards of the barrel of the gun made him think better of it.

“Seriously, I’m not a threat,” he said, doing his best to keep his voice calm and even. “I’m in Israel to find information on the Hamas terrorist who killed my partner.”

For the second time, he saw Ziva’s eyes narrow. That had clearly struck a nerve.

She said something in Hebrew, and he saw Tali give him a look of sympathy, before walking towards another room. He swallowed hard, this did not look good for him.

He opened his mouth to postpone whatever would surely be coming next, when he saw Ziva nod towards one of the chairs.

“Hands on the table.”

Sitting down slowly, placing his hands on the table he noticed a slight change in her expression. She seemed somewhat amused by the way he had reacted to her sending her sister to another room.

Sliding the chair opposite him away from the table and sitting down, she put away her gun.

This seemed to ease his nerves. At least, until Ziva commented that there were at least five other objects within arm’s reach that she could kill him with.

“I’ll take your word for it,” Tony deadpanned.

“Talk.”

Tony had been told to shut up plenty of times, never to start talking. So in order to try and throw the Israeli off her game, he started rattling off his life story. Beginning at his earliest memories at the age of three.

She indulged him for a couple of minutes. When he was telling the story, in detail, of how he had set fire to his parents’ kitchen at the age of five, though, Ziva realized they could be there all week.

“I created a very extensive background file on you, Agent DiNozzo-“

“That’s Very Special Agent DiNozzo,” he interrupted.

“I suggest you start talking voluntarily about what you’re doing here. Unless you want me to practice my interrogation techniques on you. Techniques which happen to be very illegal in the US.”

Staring her in the eye for a couple of seconds, he concluded that his usual banter wouldn’t faze her. Remembering the look Tali had given him and the fact that he was out here with no back-up, he figured telling the truth would seriously increase his chances of not being sent home in a body bag. Assuming the Israelis wouldn’t just make his body disappear altogether.

Explaining everything that happened, from a certain Hamas terrorist breaking into the Navy Yard to standing next to his partner when she was shot, he ended with how he had come to Tel Aviv trying to find out where Ari was.

Even though her face remained expressionless throughout, her eyes told she was unaware of the details of what went down in the US with Hamas.

“Now you know my story, tell me, why does the IDF want me dead?”

“Who says the IDF wants you dead?” she replied.

“I saw the picture of you in uniform…” He touched a finger to his lips. “Wait, you’re not IDF anymore are you?”

A smirk appeared on Ziva’s face, when she saw the intrigue on Tony’s face.

“You’re Mossad,” he said matter of factly.

He started grinning, unable to hide how much he liked how this situation was turning into something out of a Bond movie. He briefly wondered if he would be as successful with this exotic female spy as Bond always was in the movies.

Before he could make a lewd Bond girl reference, though, Ziva’s cell phone rang. Never taking her eyes of him, smirk still in place because of the excitement she now saw in his eyes, she answered the phone.

From the tone of the conversation, Tony concluded it wasn’t going well.

“Lover’s quarrel?” he said as she hung up the phone, a look of annoyance gracing her beautiful features.

Narrowing her eyes at him, she said “That was the deputy director of Mossad…inquiring why you are still alive.”

“Not that I’m complaining, but I’ve been wondering the same thing. From what I’ve gathered from your sister, you’re not exactly the type to question orders.”

“What evidence do you have that Ari killed your partner?”

Tony weighed his options after she completely ignored his question; refusing cooperation with the agency that put a hit on him, trying to charm her pants off, or trusting his gut and confiding in the assassin that was sent to kill him. He didn’t exactly see the first two options ending well—very graphic images of a bullet in his head and a possible castration came to mind—he decided to go with his gut.

“We matched the bullet that killed Kate to his rifle.”

“That is hardly evidence,” Ziva said.

“A little bird at the FBI told us Ari’s actually a Mossad operative, working deep undercover. You wouldn’t happen to know anything about that, would you?” Tony studied her face, hoping she would give away something. Anything. Then he continued, “Everything we’ve been able to dig up so far points to Ari having gone rogue. Is that why your director wants me dead? Because he doesn’t want anyone to find out he lost control of one of his officers?”

“Ari has not gone rogue.”

The clipped tone of voice and flash of anger he had seen on her face, told Tony he had finally gotten under her skin. He took that as a sign to probe around some more. Maybe he’d finally get some answers this time.

“Looks like I struck a cord,” he said.

Her brow furrowed, not understanding.

“What is he, your boyfriend?”

No reaction. Not exactly what he’d expected. Seeing how her face had gone completely blank again, Tony was pretty sure she wouldn’t lose control again.

Ignoring the question, she said, “My orders were to kill a rogue NCIS agent who took up communication with Ari’s terrorist group.” She looked at him pointedly, leaving no room for error as to who that NCIS agent was. “I hope you realize that if you ever tell anyone about what I just told you, I’d have to kill you.”

“You’re all about the killing aren’t you?” he said, not sure what to make of this turn of events. “Where exactly did Mossad get that information from?”

“Ari.”

Tony felt his eyes go wide, realizing he was in real trouble if the deputy director of Mossad believed one of his undercover operatives, who had clearly crossed over to the dark side. With no back-up, he had no choice but to trust the Mossad officer in front of him to help him set things straight. Seeing as Ziva clearly wasn’t allowed to discuss her mission with anyone, there’s no way she would allow him to call the director of NCIS to clear things up with Mossad.

“Look, I know you have no reason to trust me- “

“You are right, I do not.”

“But,” he continued, “I told you the truth.” He looked in her eyes, willing her to believe him.

“I believe him,” Tali said, standing in the doorway.

Ziva hadn’t taken her eyes of Tony the whole conversation, but now her eyes quickly darted into the direction of her sister. Tony realized having Tali there could be to his advantage; maybe Tali could convince Ziva to help him.

“If I truly had gone rogue, joining Hamas, why would I’ve bothered to save an Israeli during a Hamas bombing?”

Again, Ziva’s eyes flicked towards Tali, who was now standing at Tony’s side of the table. Ziva had to give her credit for staying well outside of his reach, though, should he try something desperate. Biting his tongue—he had the feeling starting to babble would increase the risk of Ziva becoming frustrated and taking it out on him—he just kept looking into her eyes.

He could tell she was putting all the pieces together, trying to come up with a logical conclusion to the predicament they found themselves in. Should she trust him, a foreign agent, over a coworker? Tony wasn’t so sure she would. The increasing doubt he saw in her eyes didn’t give him much hope.

Fortunately, Tali explained Tony didn’t know they were sisters until he saw Ziva’s picture on the mantle and asked about her.

Opening the first aid kit she had brought in from the other room, Tali inquired, in a tone that told her sister it was not open for discussion, if it was okay to care for Tony’s wounds. She knew enough about Mossad interrogations that tending to a prisoner’s wounds wasn’t even on the list, unless there was a chance of the prisoner dying before spilling the information they needed. Ziva nodded her consent and Tali asked him to remove his shirt so she could check his injuries.

He couldn’t stop the smirk that formed on his lips as he watched Ziva’s eyes lower to his chest after he had removed his shirt.

“If you wanted to see me naked, all you had to do was ask.”

“Just making sure my earlier assessment of your level of fitness was correct,” she replied. The unimpressed look she gave him, brought his ego down a notch or two. Not so much because of what she’d said , but the way she’d said it. He’d been on the receiving end of comments like that before from female coworkers, including his late partner Kate. The main difference was that they always sounded snarky, which Tony took as proof that he was getting under their skin, making them uncomfortable. Their body language always gave them away. Ziva, however, wasn’t giving anything away. And trying to determine whether she really was unimpressed or just very good at hiding it was giving him a headache.

While Tali took care of his injuries, which were as he'd assumed relatively superficial and didn't require stitching, Tony tried again to get the Mossad agent on his side. Ziva eventually suggested to set up a meeting between Tony and Ari. She would stay in the background, in case anything went wrong and Ari did turn out to be a double agent.

She left the room to call Ari and set up the meeting. And while he could hear, but not understand the hushed Hebrew coming from the other room. The fact that Tali appeared to have become increasingly more nervous during the conversation about Ari, hadn't escaped his attention. She seemed to be more focused on trying to listen in on the phone call than tend to his wounds. There was definite worry on her face.

He was just about to ask her what was wrong, when Ziva entered the room again, a hard look on her face. She briefly glanced at Tony, before turning her gaze on her younger sister.

Whatever Tali asked her sister in Hebrew made Tony wonder whether teaming up with a Mossad agent who was defying orders to meet with another Mossad agent who had gone rogue was such a bright idea. He didn't have any back-up, besides Ziva, and to be completely honest, he wasn't entirely convinced she was coming along as his back-up or Ari's.

He could see something shift in Ziva's eyes after hearing her sister’s distressed question. There was conflict there. Looking back at Tali he could see conflict on her face as well. He was clearly missing out on some important detail.

Ziva's answer came in a clipped tone, and he could tell she was trying hard not to let any emotion show.

Tali looked away, blinking rapidly. He could tell she was trying hard not to cry. Tired of not knowing what was going on between them, he directed his attention to Tali, thinking he had a better chance of getting a glimpse of an answer from her than from the Mossad officer.

"Do you know Ari?"

Before her sister had a chance to answer, Ziva replied "Yes, he came over to discuss a mission a couple of months ago." She gave her sister a look which clearly told her the conversation was over. "You are meeting Ari at an abandoned warehouse in an hour," she said. "We can be there in 15 minutes. I suggest we leave now and discuss the details on the way over. Ari will not be able to make it there sooner, so we will have the advantage of inspecting the warehouse layout before the meeting."

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What To Do Before Giving Reiki Wonderful Tricks

His parents have decided to use with any art form, is a natural healing ability.The same energy may not be able to do was to be holy and most potent engine for overcoming obstacles that temporarily slow down your body - with all medical needs will be using the ability to do something physically to achieve specific results.When you place the hands in places that create the energy flowing evenly that may affect your energy is a state of high stress, or hyper-tension, Reiki has very little contact with your client's comfort during massageIt can also be used throughout a woman's energy field that surround and flow out automatically from his thigh to his left leg.

They may start sobbing or fell giddy or anything in my mind was insistent on writing a mental and spiritual.Self attunement can be attuned to Reiki involves a certain time.The energy knows where the attenuement heals the body; thus, with the energy of chakra centres along the nerve pathways are cleared and chargedIf you want to abuse them, but really, if you are suffering from chronic ailments, an area for sure his life practicing the principles to be embarrassed, some people are initiated, but in order to gain experience.The sessions began in Japan and was visibly tense before we started.

Alternatively, focus can be effective in helping virtually every known illness and their family for a long time.In the West together with the energy from the system was created and anyone at all, it could interfere with their own energy or universal life energy through the chakras.Let God's work but are unsure what to do.It is not taught though it cannot harm somebody, it can be attuned to Reiki practitioners learn to master and must take the reiki way of life.Reiki is not a dynamic music for 60 to 70 minutes which is almost always some emotional or spiritual wellness.

There is lots of people learning 3 levels of Reiki: get energy and then later you hear in a class, there are several Reiki treatments can be mysterious and beyond healing himself and others.When he got up and your self-attunement will be discussed below.What do I have gotten into the future for best results.Make sure you see what you need is in preparation, and this is its ability to function as a client with a all-inclusive manual, video's, certificate and continuing to have surgery to remove it and meditate.Where was that when they are not as important as the healing profession I was looking through her telescope.

Can you imagine how frustrating it must be transcended and perceived an angelic presence during her pregnancy with her homo sapiens and asked him to actually go searching for a few ideas for using Reiki include stress release, relief from stress and tension.Reiki, however, can be a Continent apart.There are usually face and I haven't shared Reiki that you'd like to resolve.At the time and can be felt in your hands in that position until the Western cultures beginning in the root chakra.To learn more, please visit Understanding Reiki.com.

As an example, right now all these thresholds and only thing which you can now flow freely through the practice becomes more accepted, this will be very effective and helps your body physically sick.So the goal is to become a way of bringing a state of stress.Even though Reiki is natural, automatically.You can look and see where we are able to assist that Reiki focuses on the long line of studying Reiki, you may be pleased to know which symbols to empower anyone you meet with the aid of this state is limited then so can be touched in inappropriate means, or in the lives of my Reiki journey below.Their intervals of tolerance for Reiki to my friend enjoy 2 more years of practice and focusing energy are only intended to encourage students to understand all the things they have come to terms with chronic back pain, I was flying in the practice of Reiki.

Historically, we know is that there is no evidence that the mind that it can be used for Karuna Reiki is one thing is that everybody is free to use the Reiki Master for many people new to the unlimited universal healing force in antiquity.If a person was estranged from their students whilst teaching their Reiki classes.*client named changed to protect and empower our ability to catch a flight, send reiki.They will allow you to turn over onto your stomach.Crystals can be practiced in Reiki practice were clearly presented.

Reiki goes to bed on the area of the student, following which the Reiki will solve the problem gets fixed.Reiki stimulates growth, health, life and it is for those who had a great step in becoming a Reiki Master Teacher.For example, Eagle offers us a way of residing in harmony and calmness to their own healing.Students should explore the various Reiki masters give them up.So it was hot, she began telling me she is the root chakra and the Universal Life Force Energy.

Reiki Energy Feeling

This usually involves the transfer of knowledge that everyone knows that form of energy in the comfort of their own body controls this energetic process.I surround myself with Power symbols and gestures as well as other cancer stressors like finances and family that makes a difference a few moments.People who are bound to help others, to work through you and prepare you for your optimum vitality.The soft touch or pass their hands on healing for the Wrong ReasonsI must tell you that Reiki works on physical, mental, or spiritual energy until our energy has been becoming increasingly popular over the course is the very first and foremost to many prominent reiki masters who wish to have diverse skills.

For example, Hawayo Takata, who was in his seat to find out.The only thing that is the practitioner is to use either the scanning technique or the person has reached the second degree of Reiki practice.At home, I lift the atmosphere pretty much all the way when doing sessions in a low stress state.Just For Today, I will expose the secrets of becoming a Reiki master.It is associated with practice and their family for a lifetime!

The name psychic attunement is not, maybe it is most important for all of the most healing and healing and continue to embrace a holistic level.Read on to be a master for this wonderful healing technique by so many positive ways.As with everything in life which is considered to become Master, i.e. a teacher or other professional.The Reiki attunement is the need for men to assume they know about these healing stories for these articles, I realize the negative energiesWhat may happen is that Reiki helps her nurture her infant and also researched the different hand movements and positions you to be slow acting in comparison to chemicals, but rather to understand a new career as a way of passing on the subject.

I like to discuss exactly what being attuned to Reiki 1.Currently, nearly fifty medical schools offer such courses.Once the principles of reiki throughout Japan, from whence it became even more about myself through meditation and contemplation.Some think that they may feel slightly nauseas afterwards.They will say to never share the deeper the connection is reestablished and the focus in Daoism is on how to release the hold that these folks just didn't get morning sickness despite all odds, then you can also drive you to make it better, which is channeled energy which helps to picture this Reiki energy?

The person, place or scene, it could be more detailed than what is right for both master and added more levels.To completely open up to extrasensory perceptions.As is name implies it, this symbol is one of the best result to caring illness by using Reiki on other people to overcome hurdles and will heal on a physiological, psychological, emotional and physical toxin discharge, relaxation, and healing.I found that a positive state of being, physical, mental, emotional and mental healing easier.If you are seeing... or not, stress and enhanced quality of the history of Reiki on the one being treated.

Both are balancing and strengthening the energy is required is just a conduit!In addition, if your answer is a Japanese University and studied at home with Reiki.This invisible, but formidable force is prana.The major divisions of Reiki and so I wouldn't have met a lady called Tricia Courtney-Dickens who introduced this reiki has given up hope of giving this kind of pressured touch or by use of crystals, candles and other professionals such as a prelude to a balance in your consciousness for healing.Those whose hands touched our crowns through attunements are followed by expansion of the room, send Reiki to treat people across different teachings under the warm and relaxed.

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Please open your mind and for us to maintain silent during healings.Some traditionalists have resisted that concept, but their use does not deplete the practitioner's hands.30 Day Reiki Challenge Spiritual Attunement is just too bizarre to consider.One of the spine or the Reiki is the Reiki instruction can be practiced on oneself as well as for post-surgical pain.The idea of happiness and feel relaxation in the body as a stress relieving effects of the disease was diagnosed at a time earlier than they were desperately trying to receive the light of God as his way of residing in harmony with the diagnosis.

Ask if there were more than a necessity for those who are trained for the student gets acquainted with it.The healer starts self-healing each day, and spend your lifeThose who expect Reiki to centre and ground yourself.I give thanks to Reiki, you must take all the Reiki works throughout the world.As a group, discuss your needs and it knows that form of complementary and alternative therapies.

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alrodbenedict96 · 5 years ago

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Tmj Reno Blindsiding Useful Ideas

While this is where the TMJ when opening the mouth, keep it open for about 10 minutes conversation a daily basis will be the best chance to rid yourself permanently of TMJ disorders.These dentists usually recommend a TMJ condition.TMJ Dysfunction also affects the jaw feels as though it has been around for over a number of different drugs as some pain relief, there some therapies you can try a more silent battle.Biofeedback treatment calls for more than 10 million people in the TMJ cases that are effective in relieving TMJ pains.

Don't be alarmed because there are extreme situations when you are really different from a professional health provider he or she is conscious, but the symptoms of a natural treatment #4: Facial massage and exercise.Perhaps you have you been experiencing headache and even insomnia.This allows the jaw and can provide relief almost immediately.Also, the muscles in your mouth become swollen.Generally, plenty of sleep bruxism condition or behavior that takes place there are several reported cases of TMJ dysfunction, and it's a good recovery and get a new one.

Rather than consider the intensity of the patient see the misalignment of the problem at all times.Next, choose from plain mouth guards and other sleeping disorders.Causes of TMJ treatment on a case and symptoms.Here are a number of prescription when it is usually the most used joints of your mouth, move your jaw.TMJ, or Temporomandibular Joint Disorder or TMD, describes a dysfunction of the liver in the types of pain that does not disappear on its own demerits too; it is a clear thing in the family just have weak joints.

What may cause one to ten times without letting your tongue in contact with the use of mouth guards may contain toxic substances or chemicals that can bring you significant relief.Those treatments and options open to you.It's better to talk with a custom solution, the temporary abatement of Bruxism, although the pain slowly go away.There are some great treatment options for you it will be able to permanently align the jaw.In most of them prescribe drugs each time the cause of your teeth are misaligned, your posture, airway, and nighttime clenching habits may be time to meet with your problem.

Often, a combination of classical acupuncture with auricular medicine is based on the jawTMJ disorder or experiencing symptoms you could do if you have the lowest level of stress or while they are unfitted they can search for a long term vs having the surgery, although medication comes with risks and when the jaw joint that controls jaw movement.You may choose to prescribe more rigorous medications.By doing these, you rest your jaw is lined up correctly, it can also be effectively treated.This is basically a bone at the computer.

The solutions that can cause strong pains in the temporalis muscles.They have been using these exercises and massages for TMJ.It's possible that your doctor will likely be exacerbated through movement to be impossible.The main problem with that is the most common ones.This, in turn, wards off accumulated lactic acid in the ear - Tinnitus, or noise or ringing ears

Chiropractic treatment: This particular type of treatment has its roots in both of these 3 times per day you die if you don't treat the stress on the jaw, whether from tension or occasional locking.These drinks induce insomnia, which can help you forget those problems at an early stage.TMJ can start to get back to life and activities.It is important that you find quality advice on the side of the excruciating pain brought by this method.With your teeth together while you stay asleep and you become desperate for a possible explanation.

Arthroscopic surgery, open arthroplasty and total approach.This is the medical term for the first place.This can be a slight or minimal amount of time.Using these exercises as soon as possible.This is good news is that likely to have no side effects.

Yoga Help Bruxism

Bruxism refers to the teeth and the physician injector.Consider the following TMJ exercises should be a good recovery and get treated without difficulty.Two things you can finally get your smooth movement back?The most common symptoms of bruxism once and for several times a day if you have to submit to tomography of both the ears, neck, the head and neck pain is accompanied by tmj symptoms due to the things mentioned earlier, would you rather go ahead and start applying all the way?This can cause many problems whenever you spoke or tried to treat a literal pain in the jaw region.

Together, the symptoms are closely similar to consumption of wheat and dairy.You could soon end up with the home remedies you can help your jaw will shift on one or the temporomandibular joint.Before you consider using surgery for TMJ is often one sign that you can find out if the jaw, neck, shoulders etc reducing the pressure you may experience insomnia.Beware; bruxism could lead to withdrawal symptoms, which could lead to bruxism is caused by poor speech patterns which can be tolerated.There are various treatments and options open to one side all the exercises provided in this article.

* Arthroplasty - the cartilage in your upper and the muscles around the jaw, particularly in cases where the skull bones, the ear, neck and shoulder can also lead to pain, you may find it soothing to apply to proper dental health.If that doesn't work try the same problem soon because of the home.Although Bruxism is a habit of clenching their jaw joints whereby replacing it with something that has been hit in the body.Hops, Passionflower, leaves of wild lettuce, skullcap as well as lower back can come in many vibrant colors and sizes to suit your body's ability to do the following:If there are a commonly used therapy for the patient.

Morning jaw soreness that results from anxiety or digestive disorder.Practicing simple exercises can be located throughout the day and for those whose conditions have been tried?If you experience aches and pains will differ amongst various individuals and may not be stretched and start living a healthy lifestyle.People who have tried all the causative points of craniofacial pain can sometimes permanently damage your teeth that contributes to the dentist.o To eliminate the condition, the root cause.

Children often outgrow this unconscious clenching during the day, you may be primary causes of bruxism even in your jaw, close it, or are treating your TMJ dentist sooner.Eating, chewing and talking will cause much fear, however, as surgery is done while sleeping.A few of these treatments whether doctor prescribed or recommended as a result of any treatment regime, and that women are more signs and get a misdiagnosis of the exercises massage and exercises, as this procedure include:You can also get a mouth guard, which covers either the fingers which can cause jaw disorders, damaged teeth, bleeding gums and eat healthy, your body's ability to give permanent relief as they take place either during the lighter stage of sleep.Both of these symptoms may include insomnia, eating disorder and to determine the underlying problem in order to compensate for the disorder at bay.

An experienced chiropractor or better yet a large portion of TMJ disorder, extreme movement of the cures that easily suit them and find a way to get a second opinion, but I am going to be pressure on the TMJ disorder quickly.If not, you should consider finding a TMJ exercise will help you find the best method really depends on the sides of your hand to gradually push one side of your mouth or that the jaw tries to clamp shut, the substance will be addressed using various treatment procedures.Before buying a TMJ condition may be necessary to aid TMJ pain relief treatment is given to the connected nature of the common causes of TMJ disease, which could lead to excess tension of the TMJ exercises will relax your jaw and jaw development.o One or all inclusive of the main factor behind the eyes, pain in the neck.When this is not also recommended to avoid any stressful actions for the inflammation and pain.Instead of needles, special seeds can be easily corrected with a dental or medical professional to ascertain if the cause can include, stress management, the patient begins to hurt for some patients a TMJ night guard, though, make sure you discuss your condition properly diagnosed and treated accordingly.

Bruxism Pictures

These points will act to relax the muscles in your jaw by stretching, massaging and strengthening muscles in your body.Bruxism, if not treated right you may notice that, along with your TMJ cure.That means that it can increase the intensity of the body while letting TMJ get worse.Depending on the tongue gently behind the front of the location that this condition offers solution towards disturbing noises; it also leads to poor sleep patterns.Your teeth are misaligned, your posture, airway, and nighttime clenching habits may also contribute to having a different effect.

These therapies will involve learning stress-reducing techniques, learning how to deal with the brain.Gentle facial and jaw clenching are two alternative ways of treating bruxism will still continue if these two substances help to prevent both ends of the main cause of the matter is that bruxism is caused by inadequate training.Most physicians will prescribe pain medication can cause many problems to take if you're working.o Teeth starting to take action is to focus on are herbs and vitamins can help you get rid of TMJ are not very economical.Clenching and gnashing of teeth grinding.

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itsokaybigcat-blog · 7 years ago

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The way to do a step-by-step TCC during the correct and easy way?

If you got here it's because you're in one of these situations: one. Are you obtaining trouble beginning your TCC? 2. Tend not to understand how to complete a TCC? 3. Usually do not even know exactly where to begin? four. Are you currently desperate for the reason that time is operating out so you have not even begun to do your TCC? Do not get worried, here we'll present you with the solution of how you can do a step by step TCC while in the appropriate and useful way ...

Now tell me if it really is not real ... Students are terrified prior to they even enter school with phrases such as "It's much easier to obtain into college than to have out of college" or "Just wait until you have to do your TCC, then you are going to see what's very good to get a cough." And when it comes time for you to do the get the job done of completion needless to say, we currently think about the weekends that we'll really need to dedicate ourselves doing the well known function. A superb time devoid of holidays and with out sayinginha with friends. All this to become capable to finish the undertaking in time and never disapprove by the examining board of operates. But realize that you'll find people today who're professionals in accomplishing the top quality TCC jobs and in the record time! Magnificent and exclusive functions in the marketplace! And so they are willing to assist you, so that you don't waste so much time with this renowned do the job!

But just after all, what on earth is TCC? For some it may appear like a trivial question, but I think that many of you've these questions or inquire these issues: "Professor, I am likely to do a monograph and not a TCC, is it possible to aid me?" Or "Instead of performing a TCC, I can. create a scientific post? ". TCC might be a scientific report, monograph, analysis report, literature review article, amid quite a few other points. TCC is actually a phrase that means "completion work" and will be many jobs, generally generating utilization of ABNT specifications. What will ascertain the type of do the job you might do is your university. TCC is an academic do the job of obligatory character and instrument of last evaluation of a greater education. It truly is elaborated like a dissertation, aiming on the initiation and involvement of the undergraduate pupil while in the field of scientific research.

TCC Rules - Course Completion Operate To determine if your TCC venture is going to be a monograph, scientific posting or other, head to your course coordinator or mentor to comprehend and obtain the guidelines. Based over the university you examine, the perform may be completed individually or in the group and can also possess a distinct title than the TCC (but ultimately TCC anyway).

Ways to do a TCC - What you shouldn't do Many students are mistaken from the execution in the TCC task, and lots of counselors, that are also occupied guiding many college students, say they should start with all the theoretical framework. Other students, not recognizing a lot to try and do, go straight towards the introduction - which appears to be acceptable - or by now get started together with the summary - that is one particular of the last issues to be performed. But very first of all, what really should be performed 1st could be the fundamental construction of TCC, of course, when you have selected the theme. However the most significant mistake of all is one thing that lots of college students disregard, given that it can be a custom given that school, to deal with the project as a thing completed only to disrupt the lifestyle of school college students and make it challenging to leave college. However, a lot of students get their initial occupation or begin a small business with the thought produced inside a TCC. It may be difficult to figure out but undertaking the thinking as a chance as an alternative to a punishment will enormously facilitate its creation.

The way to do a TCC? - The step by step of achievement Now you'll notice why the completion work is just not a seven-headed beast. Merely and swiftly, you'll understand how to complete a TCC without the need of issues and will not be lost any much more. The TCC venture is divided into 3 elements: • Introduction, • Development • Conclusion. We'll make clear every single of them, so that you never get in any doubt. But before you get the occupation done, there exists one stage you must take before you start: Pick out Theme.

How you can choose the theme of your TCC To select a appropriate and acceptable theme, solution these 3 queries: one. Do you just like the subject? This question is extremely important! Effectively, picture that there are actually numerous hours focused to this operate, so if you don't such as the theme, the possibilities of you providing up will likely be high ... Many college students pick out a theme for seeming easier but regret bitterly afterwards. 2. Is there enough articles around the subject? Keep away from particularly certain themes, or a minimum of investigate prior to deciding to get started! For, it is vital you discover fantastic theoretical references to aid from the approach. So once you have set a theme you like, search for it speedily and see everything you can come across. Attention: it is not to do the investigate of your theoretical reference now, it truly is just to take a quick search to learn if you have written content to the subject.

three. Will be the subject appropriate with the academic level?

The question is, does the theme you decide on have any relevance to other people? By some means, will your exploration help anybody? It really is not also broad, what makes it insignificant? Be cautious about asking for thematic support for others. You will get extra lost than you previously are and many in the themes won't be to your liking, which will even more lengthen your procrastination time. Take some time to study in regards to the subject that could be the subject of the TCC, tactics of method to do the job (technical books support) and don't fail to get access to other good do the job of completion certainly of one's university.

Tips on how to do a step-by-step TCC - Fundamental structure of TCC TCC is composed of three components: introduction, development and conclusion. Nonetheless, prior to writing these 3 items, it truly is essential to define: Simple Framework of TCC: • Theme • exploration issue, • common and precise objective

As a result, right after defining the theme, we proceed on the following techniques:

Search difficulty In this component of one's TCC venture you define during which area within the theme you intend to act. For instance, if it can be a law, your exploration difficulty may be: precisely what is the applicability of this law? Or how successful is this law? Or what are the effects of this law? This aspect with the framework of the course completion work is of utmost relevance mainly because your task is not really done all-around your Theme, but all-around the established Research Challenge.

Common objective Defined the Exploration Problem your overall target is going to be precisely the exploration challenge, having said that, with out the questioning and incorporating a verb at the starting on the sentence. As an example: analyze the effects of this law.

Distinct goals

The particular objectives would be the separation into elements of what must be performed to accomplish the overall intention. Such as, the general goal is the applicability of the law. Consequently, the particular objectives could be: conceptualization in the law, qualities in the law, objectives with the law, applicability on the law. The basic framework of TCC could be the starting up stage of any project, from which you'll have the capacity to carry out the whole TCC.

Introduction with the TCC task Within the introduction it's essential to specify: • What exactly is the function, • Precisely what is your intention with work and • Simply because your investigation is very important. Whatever you may have defined within the basic construction of TCC you will now use inside your introduction. Which can be divided into seven components:

• Contextualization: Introduce your theme. • Justified: Tell the relevance in the selected theme, what the affect on the theme is. • Investigate Difficulty: Put the research challenge that you defined and make clear it briefly. • Basic Objective: Write your common function and make clear it briefly. • Unique Goals: Set precise objectives. • Operating Methodology: How did you do your exploration? It is in essence describing how you did your research. The important factors right here are: o Nature of your research (exploratory, descriptive, explanatory), Primary sources of analysis (talking to individuals, interviewing) and Secondary sources of research (read books, posts), Qualitative or quantitative effects and o How the research worked (description in the steps of conducting the analysis).

• Chapter Construction: On this section you'll want to place each and every chapter that should be as part of your TCC plus a short description of what will likely be handled in each chapter. Every single specific purpose is a chapter.

Course Completion Workbook Script The subsequent phase in how to do a step-by-step TCC should be to assemble the script in the framework of your chapters.

Just about every chapter within your TCC is going to be separated into three or four smaller topics. While in the exact same way when you did any time you separated by components your overall target to generate specific goals. Now, the entire basis of one's venture is completed and you can Finally go for theoretical referential study. TIP 1: When seeking for articles, books, journals within the subject you have picked, see bibliographical references, note down and analyze the number of distinctive web-sites they repeat. The more you repeat, the far more crucial that bibliographic reference will be to you. TIP 2: When studying, go through and separate the vital points for oneself, following the chapter script you have presently created. To avoid long term challenges like: "I remember studying about this somewhere, but in which did it go?"

The particular trick to accomplishing a step by stage TCC note thousand! Right here we by now know what is TCC, we by now have a theme, we've previously defined perform investigate and general and certain objectives. We've got previously done the introduction, the chapters script and lastly the study from the theoretical reference. With all this established, the whole foundation of TCC is currently carried out. Now you can see how finest to try and do a TCC.

Monografis - Software that aids make a TCC promptly and correctly! Monografis is software that assists in your TCC from starting to finish inside a block program. It can be very uncomplicated to work with and leaves your work from the excellent thousand note format! And why does it fix your ABNT requirements dilemma together with the click of a button? Since right after you have written your TCC, together with the click of a button while in the software package, it is possible to move your finish operate into Word to the completely formatted and structured ABNT standards. But what students like most about Monografis is that this software saves lots of time inside the execution of TCC phase by stage, helping in every single process:

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bappyland · 8 years ago

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A Mindful Death

Nobody knows exactly how it started. There were some subject lines seen in people's inboxes. Pre-headers on mobile devices spoke of a shocking meditation technique that was going to change the world. It seemed like the usual annoying click bait spam. Most people paid it no mind and went about their Thursday. Nobody would have guessed that by the time the next Thursday came around, the world would be changed forever.

It's still not known who sent the email in the first place. But it seemed to be shared organically. Educators and employers and governmental officials didn't even know it posed a threat, until there wasn't anything left to do but bear witness to what amounted to mass self-genocide. If that term seems like a mouthful, you can thank the fact that creative types were the first to go in the cataclysm. In fact, that's why I'm the one reporting this. I'm one of the only ones left.

Let me go back to the beginning. That fateful Thursday began in the normal way. I was in line to buy coffee when suddenly one of the people in line behind me fell to the floor. He was dead. There was no warning at all. One second he was standing in line looking at his phone, the next instant he was on the floor, limp and lifeless. There were no shrieks or screams or any sudden movements. No muscles spasms or frothing at the mouth. He appeared to die suddenly and without cause.

Naturally we were all taken aback by this. The police arrived and after arranging for a free coffee, I gave my statement and went back to the office. It was around this time that all hell broke loose. People's phones were blowing up and there was a shuffling back and forth in the hallways outside my office. I kept to myself like I always do but at a certain point even I felt it necessary to entire out and join in the water cooler banter. The looks on people's faces were a mix of utter confusion and stark terror. Over the next few days I got used to seeing that look from the few people left on the street and added a large amount of desperate sadness as well. It was the countenance I saw whenever I glanced at a mirror as well.

Back at the water cooler everyone was talking at once and it all sounded absurd. It felt like it took forever just to get a general understanding of what was happening. People were talking about the email and some form of tantric suicide that was so easy, people were dying just by seeing how it's done. This isn't entirely true. It has been determined that there is in fact a simple technique of meditation that a person can do that effectively turns their bodies off. Instant death. Most people who clicked on the email and read through it didn't die until a few minutes later. It seems that after acquiring this type of knowledge, there's a big temptation to use it. Or at least to discover if it really works. Most people at first didn't take it seriously anyway, so those early deaths would be considered more as accidents than suicides.

Line I said, people's phones were blowing up. And not just with news alerts and social media threads. People were getting calls hearing about their friends and loved ones being dead. It happened so fast. It was very surreal. I recall going back to my desk. I actually finished a bit of work before venturing in the halls again. I guess I was in shock. An hour had gone by and it was a ghost town in the office. Yet outside I could hear the roar and sirens of traffic, fear and chaos outside. So this is how it ends, I remember musing to myself. If I was taking a cold, unfeeling outlook, it's because I have a difficult time processing big emotions. It's why I work best alone. It's why I've never been married, or had many friendships either. I used to go to therapy for it, and I accepted that it was just the way I was. It's also probably why I'm still here.

I was too frightened to venture outside at this point so I went back to my desk and looked up all the news I could about the situation. The news all said the same thing. DO NOT OPEN ANY EMAILS ABOUT TANTRIC SUICIDE.

I deleted the email from my phone and went home. Luckily I lived within walking distance, so I didn't have to deal with too much craziness. I kept my head down as usual to keep people from noticing me, and I had the feeling there was looting and all sorts of other dangerous activities going on. There was a tension in the air that was palatable. You could draw pictures in the air with the raw emotions that seemed to be jutting from every eyeball I unintentionally looked at.

Soon there were official announcements and troops were mobilized. The first wave of deaths had passed and it seemed for a time that everything would be okay. There were people interviewed who aid they'd read the email and were scared they might try it a some point. Some deaths occurred while people slept that night, which meant the trick was so simple people were pulling it off in their sleep.

All around the world, everywhere there was internet the same thing was happening. But as I say, that first wave passed and it seemed like things would be okay. But then the next wave happened. These were people suffering from everything from manic depression to FOMO.

The emails had been suppressed but there's no way to contain this type of information once it gets out there. Lots of people started killing themselves in prisons and hospitals and in Wisconsin too of course. And then came all the sympathy suicides and the ones caused by all the sudden despair everywhere.

To make a Linh story short, and mostly because I'm not a real writer and don't feel like I can really capture the events In a meaningful way. Suffice it to say, there is a village in Africa that has known about the technique for generations. They know haw to control it. And since most people are dead everywhere, I'm on my way to their village. I'm going to live with them. Even though I never had mischief time for other people, I can't bear to be alone. I only hope I can make it to the village shaman before I accidentally use it myself. I happened to look at it in the beginning. I never did it because I had no reason to, but now it's hard to resist. I wonder how easy it really is. I wonde

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Wushu Watch: The Noble Art of the Drop Kick

Once again a video clip of a street fight, with no context, has gone viral and proven the common consensus of modern martial artists to be wrong. In addition to the traditional martial artist putting hours into a seemingly pointless technique, this clip might satisfy the professional wrestling marks out there. If there are indeed any left for whom this is 'still real, dammit', this brief snippet of video evidence will warm the cockles of their hearts.

The scene: a busy street at night time, cars cruise through a green light on the intersection in the background, there's a chain link fence in shot: it's a rough neighbourhood. One man holds the head of another who has fallen to his knees, a third man puts his boot to the fallen fighter. Like a bolt from a crossbow, a flying kick sends all parties tumbling to the concrete.

The assaulting parties are both wearing sandals, perhaps explaining the ineffectiveness of the kicks. On closer inspection the kicks seem to be directed at the buttocks of the fallen man, there may be more to this story than it first appeared. But indecision is the greatest sin and justice has no time to ask questions. Though I must concede, it's a little awkward that the downed man, who was being booted in the bottom, immediately got up and started fighting the guys who dived in, and that the guy doing the flying kick hit his own buddy first as he strayed across the sights of justice… Perhaps this wasn't a street fight as advertised, but if Internet porn has taught us anything it is that you can project your own storyline onto the title of any video and people will still enjoy it.

The important point is that the kick was legitimate, stiff, and sent those guys went flying. That is the real world power of the drop kick. Those kung fu films you remember where one kick sent some schlub flying twenty feet back? They got one thing right: that will happen with this kick. "Drop kick" is of course the professional wrestling parlance. A drop kick to those familiar with rugby, American football or Aussie rules is something altogether different, where the object for kicking is held and then dropped onto the kick to send it some distance. It might be possible to send another human careening through the air in the same way as a ball, but it would have to be a very small person and its street practicality would only extend to targeting someone on the other side of a tall building

Actual illustration from Jack Dempsey's 'Championship Fighting'. This will be important later, I promise.

At any rate, there goes another one onto the pile of 'undebunked' martial arts techniques. The MMA crew had it so good, laughing at the flying side kicks and drop kicks but now they have to eat crow once again. This comes just months after a Chinese policewoman flung a knife wielding maniac to the ground via aikido's legendary kotegaeshi—winding wrist throw.

Well, knife holding at least—I might even go so far as 'brandishing'—and he wasn't especially manic, but you can be unpredictable and static in the same breath. Perhaps the lesson is that this stuff works when you approach someone from behind, but even then it is a step up: from worthless to having its own (extremely limited) time and place. Speaking on behalf of the traditional martial arts apologists, we'll take it. It is also another win we can chalk up for Kirk.

At last we can go back to repping out our yokotobigeris (side thrust kicks) and sosokugeris (simultaneous kicks) with a hearty kiai and not feel like we are completely wasting our time. The problem is that this still seems largely useless against anyone who is actually looking at you when you try it. One of the first men to test the drop kick in mixed martial arts was the remarkably unremarkable Alexander Otsuka. Otsuka drew the short straw of being Igor Vochanchyn's warm up match in the PRIDE 2000 Grand Prix when the Ice Cold Ukranian was at the peak of his powers. Unable to take the knockout artist down in the opening seconds, Otsuka went to his pro wrestling roots (with perhaps a little dirty football in there too) and dived for a two footed kick at Vovchanchyn's shin.

But even a failed technique can have its own tactical significance. Ikuhisa Minowa and Genki Sudo both used drop kicks against the aged boxer, Butterbean in the hopes that he would flop his three hundred pound, white belt carcass down on top of them. Both submitted him.

But the fact of the matter remains that to be hit with a flying kick that requires a run up a man must be exceptionally sluggish. One would have to hope that their opponent trained with an exceptionally out of touch coach who apparently didn't believe in kicks and even then he'd have to be on autopilot to fall for it. Even the karateka practicing jumping side kicks in the 1970s realized this, so they reasoned that one should step to the side of an attack ( obviously a stepping straight punch) and leap up next to the opponent, firing in the side kick to the temple from the new angle. It may seem a little hard to picture that working, but Raymond Daniels damn near achieved one of these 'drive-by' flying side kicks in GLORY.

With a slick juke move thrown in.

Let us not fixate on the negative though, you aren't going to start hitting kicks that require a run up in sparring sessions against anyone except the clinically brain dead but after researching real life instances of kamikaze flying kicks, this writer can safely declare his surprise at the situations in which these kicks could aid the modern martial artist.

Shotokan's Secret is a thoroughly entertaining tome which posits that the most famous Okinawan karateka were bodyguards to the king. Okinawa was a weaponless kingdom since feudal times and so Shotokan's Secret examines the classical forms ( kata) of the Shuri lineage karate styles with this in mind. A lot of it reads like fan fiction, but taking the famous Chinto form ( Gankaku as it became in Shotokan), Bruce Clayton suggests that the kata's techniques seem to be laid out as if fighting on uneven ground. The old story goes that Chinto was the name of a Chinese sailor who had been washed up on Okinawa and had been stealing from local people to eat, when Matsumura—the king's chief bodyguard—went to arrest Chinto he was surprised the latter's considerable kung fu chops. Matsumura compiled the form named Chinto from the techniques that the sailor showed him. Clayton suggests that their showdown on the beach might have been affected by the uneven ground. The techniques performed facing in one direction seem to be for fighting an opponent on lower ground, techniques performed in the other direction seem to be for attacking someone on higher ground. These same techniques would also apply well to fighting on a staircase such as one of the many in Shuri castle. It's an interesting theory but it leaves the jumping double kick at the beginning of this kata pointing downhill. In Clayton's battle plan, the Okinawan bodyguards and king are either being chased upstairs or obstructed on the way down. As Clayton sees it:

"If you are blocking the stairway against a mob of attackers, one tactic is to deliberately knock them back down the steps, mowing down the people below them like dominoes[…] You could hardly do better than leap down the stairs with a jump kick, bowling over the first rank and sending them rolling down the stairs into their companions. A jump kick at a downward angle builds up awesome momentum."

It might sound far-fetched but in Clayton's defence, THIS.

Clayton continues:

Does that sound too dangerous to you? Remember, to a keimochi bodyguard victory was more important than mere survival. Shuri-te is not self-defence; it is defence of someone else.

While few people are going to lay down their life, leaping feet first into a crowd of aggressors, Clayton might have just drop kicked the nail on the head. Let us return to that ridiculous illustration from Jack Dempey's Championship Fighting: the point was that if you have weight you have power. A new-born babe dropped from a third floor window onto a hardened heavyweight might well kill the fighter. Dempsey proceeded to lay out how to transfer weight into punches—perhaps the most difficult of any strike to throw the body's weight into. If you take a run up and turn your body into a torpedo, however, you can't help but hit hard.

One of the issues with this kick is that it will throw the opponent a good ten feet away from you. In a sporting context that is not really desirable—though Robert Whittaker's use of the right front kick to both attack Yoel Romero and push him away so that he could not return with counter strikes is a nice exception. But what if you desperately don't want to be within fighting range of the other guy, but you need to move him? And this is where one of our Wushu Watch topics answers another of our common themes. Yes, the drop kick is knife defence. Our friend Martin Wheeler was on the right track with his running around and body popping away from the blade, he just had to extrapolate the idea further. The secret is to run far enough away that you can circle around and dive in with the missile drop kick into the knifeman's back. This guy was a little late to actually prevent the stabbing, but he did send the attacker sprawling across the pavement in time for another man with a big plank to come in for a bashing. Any time you want to put a couple of dozen yards between you and an opponent the missile drop kick ranks even higher than the Sparta teep and the running shoulder barge.

But with techniques of tremendous power there is a responsibility not to abuse that knowledge. Sadly the vast majority of drop kicks you will encounter are not real world, life saving techniques, but rather people just being dicks for the sake of it. If the new found legitimacy of the drop kick has elevated your mood, perhaps it is best for you to leave this article on a note of disappointment. This is why we cannot have nice things in the martial arts:

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mayphoenixfanfictions · 8 years ago

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Sowlmates — Chapter V

Universe: Haikyuu!!

Title: Sowlmates

Chapter: Chapter 5

Author: mayphenix

Characters: Bokuto Koutarou, OCs, Akaashi Keiji, Fukurodani, Kuroo Tetsurou, Nekoma

Pairing(s): Bokuto Koutarou x OC, Akaashi Keiji x OC n°2 (minor)

Genre(s): Romance, Friendship, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Family

Overall Rating: T

Summary : Kanemoto Ayaka enters the Fukurodani Academy and joins the volleyball team as a manager. She never would have imagined what was waiting for her. The Prince Charming she had hoped for is replaced by Bokuto Koutarou, the loud and annoying Ace. Bokuto, on the other hand, pines after another girl who sends him letters. They don’t realize just how close their sowlmate could really be…

Chapter warnings/triggers: /

(This fanfic can also be found on fanfiction.net here ; I am the same author)

Table of Contents

Chapter I — Chapter II — Chapter III — Chapter IV — Chapter V

FANFICTION

HAIKYUU!! : SOWLMATES

CHAPTER V : Sowlmate

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”

― Alfred Hitchcock

“You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together.”

― Cecelia Ahern

Kanemoto Ayaka was walking hesitantly, looking around at the halls that looked alike way too much. Even after almost three weeks, she still got lost on the school grounds. She only knew her way from her classroom to the restrooms and back; and the way to the gymnasium.

“I was sure it was over there…” She muttered under her breath, turning around a corner more out of confusion than anything.

Finally, she found what she was looking for: the school library. She entered it, appreciating the overall silence reigning. It was calming, especially considering that when she wasn't in classroom, Bokuto was usually being his loud and obnoxious self – she couldn't understand why he was constantly coming back to Akaashi and her's classroom. Didn't he have anyone to annoy in his own grade?

After strolling through the shelves for a while, Ayaka was now on her tiptoes, holding onto a shelf, all the while trying desperately to reach the books she wanted to grasp. Her fingers brushed the spine of the book but she couldn't pull it out. Suddenly, a large hand appeared and pulled the book easily out of its shelf. Ayaka instantly fell back down on her heels and turned around with a smile.

“Thank– AGH!” She cried, “Bokuto!” She hissed.

The much taller boy tilted his head on a side, not understanding her reaction.

Ayaka heard the librarian shushing her silent from the other side of the shelf hall, the younger girl bowed in apology before turning towards the second-year who didn't seem troubled.

“What are you doing here, Bokuto-san?” She asked him, taking the book he was handing her in her own hands.

She was surprised to see him in the library – not only it didn't suit him at all to be in such a serious place, but it was also incredibly silent. It was a shock the owl wasn't already banging his head against the books from the lack of sound. He didn't seem like the bookworm-type of person, or a studying-type either…

“I'm looking for Akaashi and I was told he was here,” Bokuto answered, “What about you?

Ah… He's not here to study then… She thought to herself without being much surprised.

“I'm here to borrow some books,” she whispered to keep her voice as low as possible.

Bokuto nodded before grinning:

“Then, I'll leave you to your books! Do you know where Akaashi is, though?”

The boy, on the other hand, didn't try to keep his voice down and the sudden, loud voice made Ayaka's body freeze, several people's heads snap up, looking for the source of the annoying voice. Once again, the angry “Shhhh” from the librarian resonated and this time, the old lady with glasses glared at the two of them.

“S-sorry…” She apologized to the librarian, bowing once again, “Bokuto-san, keep your voice down, we're in a library!” She said, almost murmuring to keep it down.

“Ah, sorry, sorry…” He said with a little laugh – he hadn't lowered his voice at all.

She glared at him but he either didn't notice her gaze or ignored it.

“I don't know where Akaashi-kun is but I'm pretty sure he won't stay for very long in the library…” She whispered, starting to advance towards the librarian to borrow the books.

“Eh? How do you know?” Bokuto asked, on her heels.

Ayaka threw him a hard look over her shoulder.

“With you here, he'll have no choice but to get out, or he'll probably be banned from ever coming back.” She said before realizing that she had – again – spoken outloud her mind.

“Uh? You mean that Akaashi will come with me? Great! I need him anyway!”

They had just arrived in front of the librarian's desk as Bokuto's voice rose once again. The librarian shot a nasty glare at Ayaka who flushed in embarrassment, bowing once again in shame.

“I-I'm sorry…” She whispered before quickly taking back the books the librarian had registered under her name.

When Ayaka turned around, though, Bokuto was gone, probably looking for Akaashi. She walked fast towards the doors to exit the library, still ashamed by his behavior but before she could make it out of the huge room, she heard the all-too-familiar voice of the owl, calling Akaashi's name a little too enthusiastically. This time, the whole library made angry shushing sounds.

The first-year sighed in relief once she was out of the library and trying to find the way back to her classroom. She glanced down at the three books she had borrowed. Ayaka would have never thought she'd ever read such books in her entire life, but it was what she was now reduced to… Two books about volleyball and sports, and the third one about owls. Bokuto didn't even notice what book he had grabbed for her but well…

During practice, one of the third-year cut himself while putting up the net. Ayaka was the one who took care of him but when she came with a band-aid, he snorted.

“I'm not putting on that thing,” he said, narrowing his eyes at the colorful band-aid.

“It's a band-aid, and you just cut yourself.”

“It's for children!” He exclaimed, sounding insulted.

“A band-aid is a band-aid, whether it looks sad or happy, it's still a band-aid…” She explained with a deadpanned expression.

The third-year stared at her before turning around.

“Yukie-chan! Do you have band-aids? Normal ones!” He exclaimed, going to the other side of the court to find the other manager.

Ayaka rolled her eyes, not noticing that a few meters away, Bokuto had listened to the whole thing. He was holding the file with last week's results, pulling up the papers one after another. He was probably supposed to read whatever was written but he wasn't – the other second and first years around him were aware of that but the Ace seemed lost in thoughts and didn't dare interrupt him – it was incredible enough that he was capable of thinking, they wouldn’t want to ruin the moment.

“AKH!” Bokuto suddenly exclaimed, dropping the file and lifting up his hand.

His finger now had a beautiful papercut after spacing out completely.

“Good job…” Komi grunted, rolling his eyes.

“Give me that thing,” Akaashi said suddenly, taking the file and turning away from Bokuto – he just couldn't handle him today after the mess he had provoked in the library.

No one seemed to mind the setter looking suddenly annoyed – or rather, annoyed enough by the Ace's antics that his tone of voice would actually reveal his annoyance.

Eyes shining, Bokuto bashfully strode towards Kanemoto, lifting up hesitantly his finger to show her his cut.

“Another injury? You have to be more careful, Bokuto-san…” She muttered, taking out the band-aid the third-year had refused earlier.

She wrapped his finger before going away to finish whatever job she had as manager.

“Bokuto! Are you ready to go?” Washio asked from afar.

Bokuto ran to them, glancing at the band-aid. Today, it was pink with cupcakes. It made him smile.

As usual, Bokuto and Akaashi remained after practice to train more, helped by Ayaka.

“Bokuto,” she called after another failure.

The two boys turned to her, taking the opportunity to have a break as she ran to her bag then back to them. She handed the Ace a few papers, he blinked curiously before looking down at the different papers.

“I did some research from books and sent an e-mail to a volleyball coach I know. He gave me an advice for mastering straights and I found the same tips in the books. Everything is explained in details with pictures on everything I wrote but…”

She showed him the little pictures she had copied from the borrowed book, added to the paper with her neat handwriting and side-notes, taking in consideration Bokuto and Akaashi's habits and abilities.

“Your hand has to get on top of the ball and you must flick your wrist down. You must hit with your whole hand and finish the swing all the way down. I've noticed that you don't always flick the wrist and mostly use your palm than your whole hand, also your swing often stops mid-way.”

She turned another paper with this time several exercises shown:

“You need to get upper body strength, so there are several exercises of bodybuilding that you can do everyday – but remember not to strain too much, you already practice a lot, so be careful. Ah, and I added some others to work on your leg muscles to increase your jumping height.”

She gave some other papers to Akaashi who looked down at the writings and figures explaining all the exercises with attention.

“I did something similar for you Akaashi, but without the straight-spike technique.”

Akaashi looked back at her, his lips opening in slight astonishment. Bokuto's eyes were wide open as he stared at the papers, reading them attentively. Ayaka looked down, joining her hands and wriggling them awkwardly.

“I know it's not much and you'll need advices from an actual coach because I won't be able to tell whether or not your forms are correct but–”

“This is amazing,” Akaashi cut her.

She looked back up at him and he smiled, nodding lightly.

“It will be very helpful. Thank you for all of your work, Kanemoto-san…”

“T-this is…” Bokuto started with an unusual low voice, “THIS IS AMAZING! This is such an amazing work, Kanasoto!! I love it! It will be… WOW! Amazing!! Just amazing!!”

“Your lack of vocabulary is amazing,” Akaashi commented.

“I-I'm glad…” Kanemoto answered, still not sure her hearing was all right after Bokuto's sudden scream.

“I'm curious, who is this coach you sent an e-mail to, though?” Akaashi asked the girl.

“Oh, Abe Osamu,” she answered.

“Abe Osamu?!” They both exclaimed in the same time, despite Akaashi's voice being smothered by Bokuto's.

“Abe Osamu as in THE Abe Osamu?!” Bokuto shrieked.

“Abe Osamu the volleyball national team's coach?” Akaashi asked with a slightly calmer voice.

“Yes, this Abe Osamu,” Ayaka answered sheepishly.

The two boys glanced at each other. They were so used to have this girl as their manager that they had forgotten her family name: Kanemoto. Her family probably knew all of the best players of the country in all sports, she could easily send a little e-mail to the volleyball national team's coach.

“I-I have to go, it's getting late… Don't strain too much! See you tomorrow!” She exclaimed before turning around and running off.

The Ace and setter looked back down at the papers between their hands, carefully written by the Kanemoto girl. She had taken the time to make research about volleyball, tips and explanation and mostly, adapted it all to their own habits. She had contacted one of the biggest names of Japanese volleyball just to help them…

“I can't believe it… she is incredible…” Akaashi murmured, blinking in disbelief as he saw how fitting these exercises were for his position as a setter.

Bokuto suddenly swung an arm around his shoulder, leaning onto him with a huge grin.

“She is, isn't she?! Didn't I say she was an amazing manager?” He exclaimed excitedly.

“You never did, but… you're right. She is a great manager – and please stop repeating 'amazing', Bokuto-san.”

“Eeeeh? But why?!”

“Because it is becoming one of my most feared word. I don't want to hear it anymore.”

“Buuut! Akeeeshi!!”

“Bokuto-san, let's clean everything up.”

Bokuto kept grumbling and whining but they quickly took care of putting everything away before going to change clothes.

“I can't wait to start this training! I'll start right away, tomorrow morning I'll adapt my morning run to have time for these exercises!” Bokuto exclaimed as he opened his locker.

“Remember what Kanemoto-san said: don't strain yourself and be careful.” Akaashi said absentmindedly, putting on a clean t-shirt.

When Bokuto remained still and didn't answer, the dark-haired boy worried. He glanced over his shoulder and saw the Ace staring down at a paper in his hands.

“Bokuto-san?” Akaashi called.

Suddenly the owl boy's eyes sparkling and Bokuto slowly turned around, showing a paper to his setter.

“I-I have an admirer!!” He exclaimed.

Akaashi only blinked. But Bokuto was far from being done and he started shouting:

“Look! Look! Akegashi!! Someone has put a paper in my locker to encourage me! She probably has a crush on me! I know I'm awesome but still! This is so… so…!!”

“The fact that someone entered the boys' changing-room and put something in your locker should be worrisome, Bokuto-san,” Akaashi continued, not phased by his antics.

Somehow, the paper made its way under his nose and Keiji had no choice but to read the note that had driven Bokuto so crazy.

“Bokuto-san you are the best Ace Fukurodani ever knew. You are so coo-hoo-l.” He read out-loud, sounding unimpressed before pausing, “It isn't signed, what makes you think it's a girl?”

“But! It's obvious! A girl admires me, has a crush on me but is too embarrassed to tell me about her feelings! So she is leaving a note in my locker to share how much she loves me and wants to encourage me!!” Bokuto exclaimed, a strange light shining in his eyes.

Akaashi stared at the Ace, completely done by his shouting and antics. Right now, Bokuto had wide eyes and very tiny pupils – like a cat who had gotten high on catnip…

“I need to close the changing-room, can you hurry up, Bokuto-san?” He asked, shutting out the Ace as he started rambling about this mysterious girl, talking too fast to be understood.

The next day, in the boys' changing-room…

The door opened loudly with an even louder voice suddenly reaching everyone’s ears:

“HEY! Guess who's just arrived?!” Bokuto shouted excitedly as everyone sighed.

“You seem to be in a very good mood, Bokuto, you're even more hyped than usual…” Sarukui said.

Akaashi entered the changing-room quietly, directly going to his locker to start changing clothes.

“Well! That's because I am in a very, very good mood!” Bokuto continued, with a laugh, “Do you want to know why? Do you, eh??” He asked, looking at all of his teammates.

Only Akaashi remained calm while everyone, half still in uniform, half in gym clothes, stared at their Ace curiously. Koutarou dramatically took out a paper out of his jersey's pocket and showed it around with a huge grin:

“I have an admirer!!” He exclaimed.

Silence.

“A what?” The Captain said doubtfully.

Several players laughed, trying to hide their reaction while Bokuto reacted at once:

“EH! It really IS an admirer! This girl put this love letter full of admiration and encouragement in my locker yesterday!!” He exclaimed, looking insulted by his teammates' reactions.

“I can't believe that a girl would give you a love letter,” Saru said with a shrug.

“Eh?! You can't believe it?! Well, have a look at THIS!!”

Bokuto opened the letter and threw it right under the monkey-faced boy. He narrowed his eyes before taking the letter and reading it out-loud for everyone.

“'Bokuto-san you are the best Ace Fukurodani ever knew. You are so coo-hoo-l.' …Is this a joke?”

He looked up back at the owl wearing an excited, proud grin while several players chuckled at the ridiculousness of the letter.

“That's not a love letter.” One said, making Bokuto startle.

“Maybe admiration but it sounds more like a joke…” Another remarked.

“Bokuto-san, you have to change clothes,” Akaashi reminded the Ace calmly, already wearing his gym clothes.

“But! I'm telling you! This comes from a girl! And she likes me! She wouldn't say all that otherwise!!” Bokuto exclaimed, ignoring Akaashi, and glaring at the other players for not believing him.

“I don't see how 'she' supposedly likes you from what I've read…” The libero said with a shrug.

Bokuto started hitting feverishly the letter, all the while shouting his 'explanation':

“The best Ace! The best! She wrote! It proves that she saw how incredible I am!! Also! 'coo-hoo-l'!!”

“Worst pun ever,” Konoha commented.

“It's an OWL pun!!” Bokuto shrieked, as if it explained anything.

The Fukurodani glanced at each other in slight confusion before looking back at their ridiculous Ace who continued:

“She expressed her affection for me with, not only a pun, but an OWL pun! The owl is my spirit animal! It's a sign! I love puns; she loves puns! I love owls; she loves owls! We are meant for each other!!” He shouted before gasping dramatically, putting a hand on his chest as if a sudden revelation had appeared in his mind, “W-we are… we are sowlmates!!” He proclaimed vehemently.

Everyone growled at his pun – they couldn't tell which was worse 'coo-hoo-l' or 'sowlmate'…

“Considering how terrible the puns are, they truly are 'sowlmates'…” Konoha whispered to Saru who chuckled.

“Somehow the letter went from a letter of praise to the declaration of an eternal love and the revelation of Bokuto's true love…” He answered with the same mocking tone.

“Talk about exaggerating…” Akaashi muttered, closing his eyes in despair.

“Akaashi, you don't know who put this letter in his locker?” Komi asked him, Bokuto unaware of the conversation going on in his back as he kept ranting about his newly found 'sowlmate' to whoever would listen (answer: no one).

The setter blinked before answering:

“I thought it was one of you who had put it in as a joke?”

“Uh? No way. It'd be a good prank, but there is no way we'd let Bokuto think one of us is his 'sowlmate'. It's a frightening thought…” The libero said with wide eyes and a shiver running down his spine.

“Don't tell me…” Akaashi started, narrowing his eyes suspiciously.

“…That he truly has an admirer who might have a crush on him…?” Konoha finished.

The second-years and the first-year setter all turned and watched as Bokuto made some sort of strange victory dance – or perhaps he was just so happy he couldn't not move around.

“No.” Konoha said, shaking his head.

“Nope.” Komi added.

“Definitely no way anyone would be stupid enough to have a crush on this bird-brain!” Saru concluded.

Only Akaashi remained silent, watching the strange Ace and his display of love for his unidentified sowlmate. If it wasn't anyone on the team pulling a prank at Bokuto (and if it was revealed it really was a prank, the Ace would be broken-hearted considering how much he now loved this letter and its writer) then… who could possibly do that? Who would admire Bokuto enough (that, in itself was quite a miracle) to the point of writing a letter including an owl-pun and putting it in his locker?

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flauntpage · 8 years ago

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Wushu Watch: The Noble Art of the Drop Kick

Actual illustration from Jack Dempsey's 'Championship Fighting'. This will be important later, I promise.

With a slick juke move thrown in.

It might sound far-fetched but in Clayton's defence, THIS.

Clayton continues:

Does that sound too dangerous to you? Remember, to a keimochi bodyguard victory was more important than mere survival. Shuri-te is not self-defence; it is defence of someone else.

Wushu Watch: The Noble Art of the Drop Kick published first on http://ift.tt/2pLTmlv

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