OPEN | SWEAT IT OUT

[realimperfect]

WHO: Re-L Mayer & YOU!
WHERE: Eluvio's Gym
WHEN: January 6th-9th before the mission
WHAT: Re-L is working out the stress of being in a new place with new people - by working out a lot.
WARNINGS: n/a - maybe slight language

It had been a long time since she'd had access to an actual gym to use. Sure, using her own weight to keep herself fit had been working, but not as well as she'd liked, and Pino didn't have the patience to be a weight set for very long before some shiny object or coloring set was deemed better than the attempt at her own fitness. The sight of weight and an actual treadmill is a welcome sight - finally, something that is wholly and formally meant to make her stronger and well.. keep her fit. She'd started with a run on the treadmill, nothing too overbearing to start, a bit of a warm up, so to speak.

But then comes weight lifting. Casually, she loads something like 400 pounds total on to a bar, looking every bit too thin to lift what she's putting on there, but the weights themselves don't seem to bother her individually -

After all, Pino is about the same as two of the one hundred pound weights. Round about.

Once it's all loaded and the bar it set at shoulder height, she takes the time to put her hair up and away from her neck before settling the weight bar there and, carefully, backing up to free it from the pins holding it up.

The weight itself doesn't seem to bother her a bit, taking a moment to make sure that she is in proper form before dropping in to a few low squats, seemingly not bothered a bit by all of the weight on her shoulders, if not completely satisfied that she hasn't lost her touch with this kind of thing. All of that time away from the dome (negating her time spent gathering and loading supplies with Vincent) - and she still hasn't lost too much in the way of stamina or strength.

She pauses in her exercise for a moment to let a thought sit, for a moment, contemplating just who she might be able to find to help train her when it came to a little more hand to hand combat. Would it be her preferred method? Hell no. In fact, she'd still prefer her guns, but..

Without Vincent around, the whole dynamic of him taking the close quarters combat and her taking out enemies before they go too close was shot to hell. A quick look around the gym proves to produce quite a few bulky candidates, however.. she'll wait until she sees a few in action before deciding who to approach. For now to put her bar back on the rack, carefully moving to grab two 25 pound weights to load on either side, waiting for a moment before speaking.

"Excuse me. I just need 2 of those disc 25 pound weights, if you can spare them for a moment."

Comments

[realimperfect]

"What do you mean, after a display like that?" Her head tips slightly, curious. After all, she'd always been like this, and with no one to tell her any differently, maybe she just assumed all people in Romdeau could lift things in the same manner. Or, well, she's just looking to avoid the inevitable truth that she's not looking forward to facing about the fact that her biology is, in fact, different and she and Vincent Law may have more in common than just being refugees from the once domed city. One 25 pound weight in each hand she decides to question one bit further -

"I've always been able to do this - is that unusual for other people my size?" There's a creeping feeling that she knows this answer but, some part of her wants to hear him say he knows someone else and it isn't so odd.

[nodyinteam]

He folds his arms and gives a sage nod to the stranger.

"You hit the nail right on the head! It's not everyday that you see someone so small with that much strength! I have to admit, it's pretty impressive."

[realimperfect]

"My doctor never expressed any concern that I was any different. Hm." It's not a total lie. Daedalus had never expressed any concern, though.. he'd probably been the one to sequence out her DNA and personality to every little detail so.. no, he wouldn't be shocked. Either way, she's still sorting through what she'd managed to get from his computers and gather from everywhere else before the dome fell, though it's not any easier to come to conclusions -

"Well, without Vincent around to take care of the close quarters problem, I thought I would benefit from getting back in to a proper gym routine."

[nodyinteam]

"That doctor may have had reasons for doing so... or maybe it's just not unusual where you come from."

He grins.

"But it sounds like you have a good, healthy ethic! A proper gym routine is the best way to surpass any shortcomings!"