[center][h1][color=DB7E07]Jason Connor[/color][/h1] [hider=Inventory] Pokédollars: 500p [/hider] [@Lunarlord34] [@Zapdos] [@Sanguine Rose] [@baraquiel] [@Gremlin] [@Shazamrock] [@Crimson Flame] [@Xaltwind] [@Crusader Lord] [@CitrusArms] [@Remram] [/center] Jason was in the midst of his third repetition of his second kata when the first person spoke to him, asking about the forms and if he was into them. "Not like this no," he answers as he delivers a knife hand strike and flows into another block, "I'm usually more about shadow boxing and practical application of the katas. But the spacing here is too small, or maybe too crowded for that, so I'm keeping it to the slower practice." He doesn't speak for a few moments and then sighs. "And it's helping with my nervous energy, that I was doing so good ignoring until Steph brou-OH I DID'T INTRODUCE MYSELF!" Freezing mid-movement and hanging his head, the aspiring champion chastises himself. "It's a basic bloody thing to do and I completely forgot to do it and now she probably thinks I'm an asshole..." He glances at the girl who addressed him most recently and offers his hand after a moment. "Jason Connor, pleasure to meet you, before I forget again." The other young man who'd arrived just ahead of Jason joined them shortly after and commented on how well he thought the martial artist was handling the chaos. "I'm just focusing on what's important right now, which is the people I'm talking to, the rest is background noise that I can ignore or acknowledge at will. I got good at it during the longsword tournaments back home." Assuming that Regan introduced herself and took the offered hand, he scratched the back of his head. "I'm actually from the Hoenn region, but my parents have been helping with Evig's rebuilding, so I recently moved in with them to make up for the time we were apart." His eyes widen slightly and he fishes out his phone, quickly searching for his message app and shooting his dad a message about his training sword. "Actually, speaking of longswords..."