<div class="floatleft">(http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120909185549/darksiders/images/9/94/War_Abyssal_Armor.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Karn Shademore<br/><strong>Team:</strong>TBA<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Training Grounds<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Armina Horowitz, Vasili Ilari<br/><br/>Karn picked up his gauntlet and put it back on while the Merc was fooling around in the wall. He'd been in enough fights to tell when something was down for the count and, just from the feel of the impact, he'd been able to tell this wouldn't be solved in one hit. "It's called 'throwing down the gauntlet for a<em>reason</em>. You were<em>supposed</em>to hit me with it. Tossing it into the chest is generally the done thing, though slapping the challenger in the face adds insult. It's considered bad form to dodge so it's also considered bad form to attempt any serious damage with the blow." Despite the words themselves, now that the fight had started Karn's voice and expression were icy and grim, like a man on his last battlefield and resigned to his fate.<br/><br/>When the other Faunus finally stood, Karn started forward. He stopped when his opponent made a strength gesture, but out of confusion rather then understanding. "What does this mean?" He repeated the gesture. "Some form of salute or insult?"<br/><br/>Then he forgot all about it when his tormentor invited him to 'really hit him'. Moving forward in a rush, Karn checked his momentum just short of his target and launched a series of quick jabs, as much to judge his opponent's intent as to hit him. If it looked like Vasili intended to actually take the hits he'd launch a particularly hard jab... and empower it with his semblance just before impact. This would make the punch roughly equivalent to being hit by a metal sculpture of a fist... one mounted to the front of an oncoming train.