LOG: Welcome to The House

[skyward_eyes]

Who: Nida (OU), Theta (Native), Any Ai family members
What: Finally at the Ai home as a guest, with packing
Where: Ai Household
When: Wednesday Afternoon 1/20
Warnings:

Nida, invited over and with express orders to see that Theta behaves and starts his packing for the family's move, waits at the door after he's rung the bell. In his hands rests a box of assorted cookies from the store bakery, in his backpack some games in case the littlest ones he's heard about need distracted, and on his lips a small smile. Finally he can check in on the little guy for real.

Comments

[trustandfireworks]

'Okay,' he agrees, going back to surveying the room for more things that can get packed away now.

[skyward_eyes]

"These should be folded better," Nida notes, taking a shirt and shaking it out to fold with more precise corners. He can't help it. Training.

[trustandfireworks]

'What's wrong with it?' he asks. It looked okay to him.

[skyward_eyes]

"NOt uniform," Nida mumbles as he works a pile of t-shirts all into the exact same shape, though of various thicknesses. "Supposed to be more regular."

[trustandfireworks]

'Okay?' He watches, more curious and confused. Nida's very neat, a lot neater than Theta ever has or will be.

[skyward_eyes]

Nida gets the shirts folded quickly and almost identically and sets it aside. There. Done.

"Sorry. Training makes me keep a neat space."

[trustandfireworks]

'They teach you how to fold clothes?' How was that helpful while fighting monsters and sorceresses?

[skyward_eyes]

"Discipline," Nida explains. There is a lot to be said for being disciplined.

[trustandfireworks]

'Remind me what that word means?' He's heard it before, but he can't remember what it is.

[skyward_eyes]

Oh man, that is less than easy to explain.

"It's not that easy to explain. It's... obedience. Sorta."

[trustandfireworks]

'Oh. So why does folding clothes like that mean obedience?'

[skyward_eyes]

"It's... hard to explain. Discipline is self control. It's performing how you should when you should. Going on even when it's hard because you know eventually you'll get it. It's not easy."

[trustandfireworks]

'Doesn't sound easy.' He burrows down a bit into the blankets. 'So the folding clothes... does that help with the self control stuff?'

[skyward_eyes]

"Yeah," Nida agrees. "It's like with martial arts. How I was teaching Sigma to stand. It's more than just proper form. It's learning to control your body, your mind."

[trustandfireworks]

'I think I get it now,' he says, nodding. 'Control and precision, yeah?'

[skyward_eyes]

"Control and precision of yourself," Nida agrees. "Like you give yourself with skateboards. You work hard, right? To learn tricks?"

[trustandfireworks]

'Yeah, you gotta keep practicing and get the technique right.' Once again, parallels between skateboarding and fighting.

[skyward_eyes]

"The way you dedicate yourself to learning, that has to do with your self-discipline."

[trustandfireworks]

'So you can do it to yourself?'

[skyward_eyes]

"Do your brothers focus hard on the things they love to do?" Nida asks. "Or do they get distracted and rush off to something else really quickly?"

[trustandfireworks]

He doesn't even need to think about that one.

'They focus.'

[skyward_eyes]

"The way they focus, even when they're tired or bored or don't want to, that's discipline. They've learned it. They know how to get things, whether they like them or not."

[trustandfireworks]

'Like doing homework?' He doesn't like doing that and it's often boring. Does that make him disciplined for doing it anyway?

[skyward_eyes]

"Like doing homework without complaint, because you know it should be done."

There's a difference.

[trustandfireworks]

'Oh. Then I only have self-discipline sometimes. Can that happen?'