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[kampfgeist]

[ the video comes first!

heine films from where he's sitting on top of a mailbox on a street corner. it's a slow pan across an empty intersection just northeast of the bank—the bank building itself is visible, as a landmark for where he is, but he also makes a point of filming as much down each street as he can manage. master film director heine is not, but at least he manages to pick out a few identifying storefronts so people can triangulate themselves!

there's no talking, or really any sound at all (which for heine is still one of the worst parts of this place). once he's filmed enough that he thinks the location has been conveyed, the video cuts off.

when he uploads it, it's with a text accompaniment: ]

let me get this out of the way first: i'm not trying to die
and i also don't want to kill anyone [ today, anyway! ]


but if you're also here without the weapons you're used to
don't want to get stuck with your thumb up your ass if shit goes wrong
and think you could use a good fight to keep your skills sharp

then hopefully you can figure out from the video where to go
if you can't then [ he is judging you slightly ] ask for directions



rules:
1) i have knives but if you want to use something else that's on you
2) no sparring bullshit, we fight like we mean it
3) i'll go easy if you need but don't ask me to teach you

Comments

[kampfgeist]

[ there it is. to be as openly confident as loki has been without the abiilty to back it up would be a fool's errand, but heine has known plenty of fools. he's been looking for something that gives away the skills in which that confidence is based, and the easy way loki dodges his first punch shows that he's not going to be an easy opponent.

heine grins, teeth sharp. ] My pleasure.

[ quickly, much quicker than a human should be, heine twists his arm away from loki's grip and tosses the knife to the other hand to swing with it instead. not with the blade this time, but with the blunt end of the hilt, aiming for loki's outstretched wrist. ]

[abit_ofboth]

[The first few moments of a sparring match such as this, to Loki, was always about assessment. What is your opponent capable of? What skills do they have precisely? As such, Loki often started on the defensive, especially in times when he can’t, or is not allowed to use his magic.

As such, he feels he is learning everything he needs to know about, mostly that his opponent is not human at least. But no mind. Loki had plenty of experience in battle with his brother and he can’t imagine this man to be stronger than Thor.

With that thought in mind, he sees what the other man is doing, but simply allows him to strike at his wrist, curious to learn just how strong he is.]

v late v sorry

[kampfgeist]

[ certainly not stronger than thor, although heine also has no concept of thor (in fact, his apologies to the entire pantheon)—maybe quicker on his feet by virtue of being lean. but he's still stronger than almost any human, even here, where he most often describes himself as declawed.

regardless, the strike to loki's wrist isn't really meant to disable, though, just to divert the grasp enough for heine to slip away from it. there are no rules to the way heine fights—he's observant and responsive, but otherwise he treats this fight like it's a real one, like his life is at stake even when it isn't.

that means some controlled slashes of his knife, some wild ones. some practiced defense and some that's mostly just scrabbling away. heine's objective isn't to win as much as it is just to stay mostly uninjured and up on his feet. ]

Absolutely no worries!

[abit_ofboth]

[At the moment Loki doesn’t care who this man knows, though he suspects by the time they’re done here, he will remember Loki. He’s fairly certain he will remember Heine as well.

The strike might not be meant to disable, but it definitely told Loki exactly what he wants to know. Heine is strong. Now at least Loki knows he can go a bit harder than he would with a typical mortal.

Loki’s movements are much more controlled, but only to someone who really knew what they were looking at. He uses lots of spins and ducks and dodges all of Heine’s wild and not so wild slashes, trying to run literal circles around him as he slashes back.]