Get to Know Nova Hyperion

Part 2 of the "Know Your Rangers" series, originally published here on 	March24/2015. 
Author's note: "For archerybushidokid. Featuring cameos by a couple of OCs, too!"
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AKA, "Big Bitch" 
Date/Timing: 9 November 2017 
Setting: Gym, Vladivostok Shatterdome; Vladivostok, PRI, Russia 
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“This sucks,” declares So-Yi from the gym floor. 
Seppänen grins down at her, offers a hand up.
So-Yi ignores her, pushes to her feet unassisted. Turns to Yuna. “I just can't drop this big bitch.”
“You did piss her off just now, though,” replies Yuna, peering over So-Yi's shoulder.
“Good.” She rubs her smarting hip. “Get her for me.”
“Of course.”
They fistbump; So-Yi limps to the side, Yuna steps to the center of the mat.
Two minutes and a handful of moves later:
“This sucks,” announces Yuna from the gym floor.
Seppänen looks down at her with a raised eyebrow, offers a hand up.
Yuna accepts.
Seppänen smiles.
Yuna pointedly wipes her hand on her trousers.
Seppänen frowns, mutters something in her language to Rautio.
Yuna flops down next to So-Yi against the gym wall. “We're faster than her, so how does she keep doing this to us?”
So-Yi ponders. “She has a greater reach—”
“Don't forget the extra thirty kilos.”
“If they let us use swords or hanbos we'd kick her ass.”
“But we can't have swords or hanbos.”
They sigh.
Someone taps So-Yi on the arm.
She and Yuna glance up.
The new Fightmaster, crouched to their eye level, smiles and waves, then beckons them toward the mats.
They shrug, follow.
He stops at the center and takes up a stance so perfectly Seppänen, the woman herself starts laughing her giant, horsey laugh from the margins.
So-Yi bristles. "Are you making fun of me?"
The Fightmaster jazz hands, shakes his head vehemently.
She scowls, but relaxes into her starting position.
He studies her stance for a moment, then brightens. Taps her left shoulder, points to the ceiling.
So-Yi frowns. "What do you mean?" she growls.
He mimics her pose then very deliberately levels his shoulders.
Her frown deepens. To Yuna, “What is he getting at?”
“I think he wants you to raise your shoulder.”
“But this is what the inst—”
“Just do it, So-Yi.”
The Fightmaster presses his palms together and bats his eyelashes.
She huffs, shifts her shoulder.
He beams, resumes 'Seppänen', lunges into that frustrating arm throw.
So-Yi's block stops his momentum dead; her counterstrike lands him face-down on the mat. Her eyebrows jump in surprise.
“Holy shit! That was the problem?!”
The Fightmaster rolls over, beams, and flashes double thumbs up.
“I ... I think so,” murmurs So-Yi.
The Fightmaster hops back to his feet, strolls to the edge of the room grinning.
So-Yi points to Seppänen. "You! Let's go."
Seppänen laughs her big laugh, whacks the Fightmaster on the back, and steps onto the mat.
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