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Ezra Bridger ([personal profile] ezra_of_lothal) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-12-10 07:02 pm

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Who: Ezra and YOU!
What: Slice of life prompts in main post + winter mourning prompts separately, below
When: Throughout December
Where: The house with Obi-wan and Anakin Skywalker in Cassandra, the Sanctuary, Trench Farm, the woods past the farm, potentially other places in Trench. Memory spaces

Content Warnings:  None for slice of life prompts, warnings for will be in subject lines for winter mournings below


A.  Saber Katas

Most mornings, at or near the crack of dawn, Ezra usually does some mix of sitting meditation or saber practice behind the house where he lives in Cassandra. But it's never good to be stale, in one environment, so sometimes he also be found elsewhere, green blade ignited. The beach. Out beyond Trench Farm into the wood. Occasionally the rooftop of an abandoned building.

He also likes to mix up forms a little. Return to the basics of Shii-Cho, the first form Kanan taught him, and he helped teach to Sabine. Those moves may look the most familiar with swordsmanship of the sort when the blade isn't one of super powered light. Sometimes he goes with the acrobatics and aggressiveness of Ataru, that he is still working in making his own.

But anyone watching him long may be able to tell that he keeps coming back to Soresu - flowing and defense oriented. Both Kanan Jarrus and Obi-wan Kenobi, the Jedi he has had the most time to learn from, have favored it. It is, in that sense, a special connection to parts of his past that he cherishes.

Soresu katas are also simply the best moving meditation he has found, grounding him in calm.

Usually if he notices someone watching, he'll keep going until the end of a set, and shoot a smile in their direction when he has a moment. If someone gets a little too close, he's careful to pause. Even on a low setting, a lightsaber can sting.

B. The Sanctuary/Healing practice/post healing meditation

Now that Trench is entering the depths of winter, and some food growing parts of the work he does is on pause, Ezra feels like he can be a little more free with how much time he spends at the Sanctuary.

Slick saber moves are far from the only thing for a young Jedi to study and practice. Some of the work at the Sanctuary is so specific to corruption and beasthood, it barely has anything to do with anything he's learned from other Jedi, per se.

And sometimes someone comes in whom he can help out with help with a little good old-fashioned physical healing with the Force.

Not that he feels like he really knows what he's doing, with that, most of the time. He's trying to learn some medicine, in the scientific sense, too, to be more precise and effective than simply...pouring energy into a body, basically.

It's not really his energy. He's merely the focal point, although he's limited in what he can handle, asking of the Force.

Still, he often finds the process draining, just the bit of stabilization and speeding recovery that he can manage. Maybe it shouldn't be. He had so little time with fully trained Jedi Healers to learn this branch of knowledge, barely more than a handful of days. Now he's mostly making it up as he goes along.

Collapsing to a kneel under the guardian tree after he does some healing though, and soaking up it's presence for a while, that he's sure helps.

Did the Healers, in the era before he was born, go to the Room of a Thousand Fountains to rest and refresh themselves, he wonders.

C. Walking in the wood with hell hounds


And then sometimes a boy just wants to hang out with some of his animal friends. He's not a hunter; he never intentionally sets out to patrol for beasts.

He will, however, run or stalk through the woods alongside some of the more benevolent wildlife, his senses flung wide open to the Force, feeling and images from his companions flowing through them. Almost a battle meditation of sorts, even if there's no battle to be found (although of course, his companions may find one). His sense of individual consciousness fades some into the life, all around him.

[[OOC: Feel free to hit me up at [plurk.com profile] skipthedemon or PM to brainstorm or ask for a wildcard prompt.]]

hearuthinking: (Up)

b.

[personal profile] hearuthinking 2022-12-12 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that Jason is more familiar with Ezra, he tries to at least say hello to the kid whenever they're both in the Sanctuary. And Jason is in the Sanctuary a lot more after he and Viktor assigned themselves as the planning duo for Allen's holiday celebration. He walks by the tree and pauses seeing Ezra there.

"You good there?" Jason checks. A lot of people do hang out by the tree to rest and meditate, but he feels obligated to ask just in case.
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[personal profile] miyagimagic 2022-12-13 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
There's not much of a chance for detours this month. Not with the way the weather is plagueing this place, anyway - somewhere between the cold and the snow, most people would probably just prefer to stay home. But the former doesn't bother Daniel as much, being a coldblood, and the latter is at least a little avoidable - or at least not terrible - on some days.

.. besides, when he's out to grab some food, it's hard to ignore spotting something like this. It's like there's some internal karate-radar going off in Daniel's head, spotting the boy practicing kata by himself, and being unable to not watch it.

Or approach, after a little while.

It's not a surprise to see Ezra doing kata when the other talked to Daniel about them before, which is why he offers Ezra an amicable smile more so than anything else.

"Practicing out here even in this weather? You're dedicated."
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[personal profile] grice 2022-12-13 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ next in line is a boy entering his early teens, limbs just a year away from being completely gangly and short-cut sandy blond. he remains at the open door's frame with an amount of uncertainty in his body language. shy, uncomfortable— but worse would be to do nothing at all about it. on vi's own proposition to visit the sanctuary, which did remind him of so much healing that happened, both physically and mentally), he decides that giving something a try was better than not trying at all.

he probably waits until his hovering presence is known, a hidden hallway behind the rest of the wall that makes up the room Ezra sits in to work. ]


Can . . . I come in?
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[personal profile] hopesparks 2022-12-14 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Anakin has ended up in a few memories by this point, so the sudden change of location isn't as jarring as it could be. He recognizes Zeb, sees his worry and anguish.

But Ezra is the focal point. The sobbing resonates with something in Anakin-- the echoed sound of a soul walking wounded. He closes himself off carefully so his emotions don't muddle the atmosphere. Instead, he sits cross-legged next to Ezra, close enough to grab onto but not so close that he's intruding. He is steady and quiet.
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[personal profile] hearuthinking 2022-12-14 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Try not to push yourself too much, kid," Jason advises him gently. He's seen Ezra working and though he doesn't understand a lot about Jedi powers, he doesn't need to: anybody can tell the kid is working hard.
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[personal profile] jedies 2022-12-14 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ obi-wan is not surprised to see it play out this way. maul had told him a little of what happened in the past, though he wasn't aware of ezra's involvement. he feels a bit bad, to have so little involvement in the war, but that sense of guilt has long since left him. ]

Did you make peace with it?
jedies: (You cannot touch the shadow)

[personal profile] jedies 2022-12-14 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ obi-wan smiles faintly. ]

He maneuvered himself far smoother than I thought I could.
jedies: (Why we don't rule)

[personal profile] jedies 2022-12-14 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. He's come a long way.
jedies: (Saved its best for last)

[personal profile] jedies 2022-12-15 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ obi-wan nods slowly. ]

And one I've come to terms with.
jedies: (Son of Dathomir)

[personal profile] jedies 2022-12-15 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ he hums softly. ]

I was just thinking I've let a lot of things go of late.
jedies: (First dawn of light in your universe)

[personal profile] jedies 2022-12-15 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure if there's anything I can do. I have to leave the future to the hands of others. And do what I can in regards to myself.
jedies: (Train yourself to let go)

[personal profile] jedies 2022-12-15 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. That took a long time though.

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