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Bai Lin ([personal profile] fistsofchange) wrote in [community profile] daybreakacademy2019-07-07 07:07 pm

The monk is in

Who: Bai Lin and YOU /points at camera
What: Various things
When: Throughout July
Where: Around campus
Warnings: Morning people

-1: Cram sessions-

As has been pointed out, Lin is NOT actually an accredited therapist. She just gets along with people and is good at calming them down. She still got the job, somehow, and she's determined to do it RIGHT, dammit.

This means taking online classes herself and reading lots of books on psychology. She spends a lot of her spare time in the library, and often has a book propped up in front of her during meals in the cafeteria. Cerebral pursuits like this don't come easily to her compared to more physical activities, but Lin still fights at her own perceived inadequacy with just as much determination as she does at physical physical foes in battle.

-2: The doctor is always in-

Lin's job, on paper, is student counselor. She takes it very seriously. Her office hours are technically posted as 2-6pm on weekdays, but unlike Professor Andersen she is ever so flexible. She will answer any call from a student as long as her life is not in danger, or at the very least call you back within the next few minutes. Or you can just flag her down wherever you find her, or stick your head into her office, or even knock on the door to her apartment at 2am on a Thursday.

-3: Morning people are the worst-

Lin's morning routine is like clockwork. Up every day at 6am, stretch, jog around campus, grab breakfast in the cafeteria, shower, meditate somewhere for a while (sometimes in weird places, like on rooftops with no obvious access point.), and be ready to face the day by 7. And not only does she do all this every damn day, she does it all while looking bright eyed and bushy tailed, with every sign of enthusiasm. Absolutely disgusting.

-4: Wildcard!-

Message me on Discord (overbringer#2743) or plurk ([plurk.com profile] overbringer) if you want to scheme up with a starter for your character with me. Or just throw a scenario at me! I'll probably just roll with it!

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-07-08 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Lin's office is much like his side of the dorm room. Nothing too personal, only useful items and books.]

I don't know.

[That's all he says for a moment, because he doesn't know. He does okay for a while, but then something is said he doesn't understand and the clarification is also confusing, and it falls apart from there.]

I don't think I'm smart enough to keep up with them.

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-07-08 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[He sits in the offered chair. It's pretty comfortable and he sinks into it, propping one foot up on the arm of the chair.]

No, that's true, but it's more like not... not that I don't get something they're only implying, but like I get different context from the sentence? It means a different thing to me.

[He take things literally far too often.]

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-07-08 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
I definitely have too many specialist types to deal with right now... but it's more like I don't want to know how to understand them. It's okay that I don't. I know I'm... slow, to say the least, and most of my friends are older than me, so they know more I guess. And I just... I don't want to get so frustrated over it- so that's maybe an inner peace thing?

[He laughs, because that sounds ridiculous.]

I think I just got used to having someone to talk to who doesn't expect anything from me. I used to talk to my jellyfish! Not tat you're like a jellyfish, but like he listened and never said anything, and it doesn't work that way with the cat! But I had that again for a while in Soleil and- should I get another jellyfish?

[He's gone off on a tangent, but it's at least somewhat related.]

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-07-08 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[It's decided. He's getting a replacement jellyfish.]

Enh...

[Meditation. Ugh. He imagines Gongenzaka in his dojo doing nothing but sitting there for hours. Why...]

I don't think I have enough patience for meditation, but breathing might help? But it's like... it's breathing, you just... do it. How can you teach breathing?

[He forgets to breathe sometimes, so it's maybe not that simple, but he won't admit that.]

I'm sorry about my response to that message. I got it on a bad day and it was late and I just didn't want to the deal with it. I didn't even care about misspelling my name really. It's a stupid name.

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-07-08 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Well... I guess we can try that then. For non-battle purposes.

[There's a little weird feeling he gets when he realizes he didn't start panicking at the mention of going into battle; didn't immediately think she was implying he should fight, even before she clarified... Unfortunately, whatever that little feeling is, though it's positive, he's on the verge of tears over it.]

I uhh, I should go now.

[personal profile] yokeye 2019-07-08 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay! Thank you!

[And he's gone. Whether he returns the next week or not remains to be seen.]