[Max has never really wanted to hurt anyone. She still doesn't. She does, however, want to be able to take care of herself. To protect the people she cares about when she has to. And she's smart enough to know that she's going to have to, be it here or back home. She has no idea if people remember things from this place when they get sent back home, but she hopes so. If it's for nothing but muscle memory. It's why she's going to be practicing posture and stance a lot, even when she's not here with Hot Dog.
She lets him adjust her positioning and catches the first slow-motion fist he throws at her easily enough, despite her tension. Therein lies the problem. Anytime she's been in any kind of...altercation, her instinct is to shy away from it, curl in on herself, rather than try to actively stop it as it's happening.
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She lets him adjust her positioning and catches the first slow-motion fist he throws at her easily enough, despite her tension. Therein lies the problem. Anytime she's been in any kind of...altercation, her instinct is to shy away from it, curl in on herself, rather than try to actively stop it as it's happening.
Maybe she's been doing this all wrong all along.]