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[puppydogeyes]

CHARACTERS: Taylor "Tyke" Kee (puppydogeyes) and Jessica Drew (webline)
LOCATION: 001 Gym.
WARNINGS: Probably just Tyke's swearing, as per usual.
SUMMARY: Skills demonstration for SEC team recruitment.
NOTES: Backdated, follows this thread.


[Taylor had been heading to the gym already, her own daily training routine, and it was the obvious location when needing to assess potential recruits. She'll have to put her own plans on hold for the moment, though, clearing one area of the gym and setting it out with a spread of mats and standing punching bags. It's a basic set up, generic, can't be more specific when she doesn't know the kind of display she'll be watching (and maybe she should have asked Edgeworth, but it didn't seem like that much of a problem).

With that done, she just waits to one side, checking her comms again, all six of her dogs gathered close to her feet.]

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[webline]

[ jess had to change into her costume before she arrived to meet her possibly new boss and when she finally does, she's skittering into the room, crawling along the ceiling before standing, still on the ceiling.

so basically upside down, staring at tyke.

and then looking at the dogs. wow, that's a lot.

a pause ]

Uh. Hi.

[puppydogeyes]

[It's the dogs that notice her first, even if that's more delayed than it would be for a person on the ground. Not something they - or Taylor - have dealt with before, which sets them barking for a moment until Taylor has them quiet with a silent command. She's still evidently surprised herself, though, staring for a moment before speaking.]

Hey.

[Surprised, but not overly shocked. Not when she knew she was coming here to see abilities, not when she'd grown up in an environment full of them. Raised eyebrows, but then she asks,]

Gravity manipulation?

[webline]

[ Jess shifts, crouching down, her hair falling around her face. ]

Uh, no, actually. [ she presses her fingertips against the surface of the ceiling around her, tugging only for them not to move at all ]

Wall-sticking. Like, you know, spiders. Wall-crawling.

I can come down, if you'd like.

[puppydogeyes]

[Wall-climbing was more direct than gravity manipulation, Taylor supposes. Both were useful, anyway. She gives a slight nod of her head.]

That'd be good. [A tilt of her head, indicating the dogs. They appear to simply be sitting quietly, now, but Taylor still says,] Stop them freaking out.

[And she thinks she's going to get an ache in her neck talking like this too long.]

[webline]

Freaking out?

[ said questioningly because these look like pretty calm dogs. nonetheless, she takes a step forward and promptly flips down a sort of unnatural flexibility and elegance.

on the ground, she's... clearly kind of short. 5'5" and all. ]

So. Tadaaaaah. C'est moi, I am here, et cetera, et cetera.

[puppydogeyes]

Not everyday they've gotta deal with someone walking on the ceiling.

[Though a lot of the things they had to deal with on the ship were not everyday things, and they were good at processing and accepting even without Taylor's calming them. But they still preferred it when Jessica was on the floor. Taylor gives a little tip of her chin, curious.]

That all you can do?

[webline]

Um. No.

[ she points a finger and a line of web shoots out, sticking to the ceiling. ]

Got the whole spider ensemble.

[puppydogeyes]

[Taylor isn't the only one with an animal based ability, back at the Academy. There was Felice, with her birds, and Catrin, who could transform into any creature she wanted. But that was it: control, or complete transformation. Not a halfway, animal traits in a humanoid. Taylor stares up at where the string's stuck to the ceiling for a moment, before realising she should maybe be talking again.]

Yeah? [Clearly impressed, and she tries to think of something more to say on it without just letting that hang there. Maybe it'd help if she knew more about spiders.] So wall-walking, webs... venom? [She'd say fangs, but maybe that was what the mask and outfit were for - if the halfway was physical as well as just abilities, even if spinning web obviously didn't require any sort of spinneret.]

[webline]

[ a beat and she pulls her finger back, snapping the web and she pauses, looking at her hands, before shrugging. ]

Okay, not the whole spider ensemble. [ doesn't that miles kid have venom. lame. ]

I have the proportionate strength of a spider?

[puppydogeyes]

[The rest was impressive and useful already, but that one is closer to what Taylor's used to, especially on the ship. And it's the one most directly related to what she deals with the team doing.]

You know how to fight?