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Definitely getting impatient from all the technological fiddling going on here. Usually Tidus is the one with the idle animations, but right now that's all Inigo. Not that he's full on dancing yet or anything, but he's definitely tapping his feet on the ground with the kind of nervous energy that fills him up due to the combination of having no idea what exactly is about to happen and the idea that he'll have to actually dance in a moment or so.

But then the time is there. All of a sudden. Inigo innocently copies Tidus's gesture when prompted, but then.. there's music.

Music. Music?! Is music the cue?!

Maybe it's since he's so on edge, but Inigo's first instinct is to look over at Tidus, and panic-hiss: "What do we do?! Just dance?!"

Inigo, please slow down and just wait for the instructions, boy.

"We follow the hologram!" Duhh!! Though Inigo probably isn't following anything currently. Tidus gestures over, and with that done, the holo-figure is rocking on the spot. Just a gentle rock, as if waiting for the music to get going.

And finally - the figure starts stepping side to side as the music properly kicks in, waving up their hands in a clapping motion, bringing them in. Get going, guys!!

Which--which Tidus is doing! Awkwardly!! Woe, this is a beginner mode?! It's a lot for these guys, Tidus not used to such weird moves as these. He feels like a dork throwing up his arms and doing the steps.

"Keep following!!" Tidus calls out, as if he can even tell what Inigo is doing, or the fact he's barely doing that. P-please don't look at him over here!!

Sorry, bro.

But Inigo is definitely looking over at Tidus. He got the message of following the hologram, sure, but now he's actually seeing the figure move, he's a little confused. Do they just have to.. clap.. above their heads...?

It does look a little ridiculous, especially as he's looking over and seeing Tidus do it with the most awkward possible expression on the other guy's face, but Inigo decides that fine, fine, he'll do it!

It sure doesn't look like dancing to him, but he starts following the moves. They're still rather easy, of course, and it does feel a little ridiculous, but he just keeps going.

Even as the figure starts stepping from side to side. Okay. Step, step. Step, step.

The only problem with said stepping being that Inigo and Tidus were just standing a bit too close together, which means Inigo ends up stepping right on Tidus's foot.

Whoops.

"GAH!"

Inigo steps on Tidus's foot, and in turn, Tidus whacks out his arm straight into Inigo's face, as if in direct response to the assault. And then he's hopping away after that, giving his foot a shake, not considering how own attack when he whines-

"Don't dance on me!"

At least the dancing hologram lady is continuing to have fun.

"GUK!"

Slowly a true circus is starting to take shape here, isn't it. Inigo starts furiously rubbing at his face, hoping to prevent it going all red in response to the slap.

"We're dancing, not fighting!" He retorts.

His cheeks kind of tintle.

"Let's just-- Let's take some more space!" And then they can look again at whatever the hologram lady has to tell them about what they ought to be doing.

Like he wasn't already going to do that, STUPID!! Nevermind that he starts moving (read: dancing) away from Inigo as the holo-lady then - along with the beat - switches their dance move with a cheerful 'Switch!'

LADS IT'S TIME TO PUNCH THE AIR SIDE TO SIDE WITH THE RISE OF THE BEAT. Tidus is ready to throw out a complaint about the change ('don't!'), but he catches it in his throat and tries--tries following the dance!!

Feeling like an absolute buffoon. And Gibbers, sensing Tidus's need of encouragement, poofs! out in a small glow of light that doesn't help the guy, landing on the ground and starting to dance too!

...not the same dance, but you know. A higgledy dance.

A higgledy dance, you say?!

Something - or rather, someone - in Inigo's heart senses this course of action and thinks it's a great thing. But now Inigo actually has the space to move and realises what's going on, he's managing to keep up with the movement without looking ridiculous. Sure, it may not be like the kind of dancing he's used to, but his body can adapt to this kind of movement, since it's not too far off.

Which is why Jumblie knows Inigo doesn't need this encouragement. No, he's actually already moving up on the stage, she's already proud of him!

So she must help her higglepal encourage Tidus. The little sunshine creature hops right out of Inigo's chest until she's standing right next to Gibbers, joining in on the higgledy dance.

Which means Tidus has now got two little sources of distraction right in front of him. And potential obstacles, considering the lady suddenly announces they have to step forward.

Get a dance coach, he said! I'll dance with you, he said! It'll be fine, he said!!!

Tidus knows what Gibbers is doing (well, he thinks he's there to have fun, really...), but it's still an embarrassing set of moves to be doing. A glance taken at the other guy, and ugh, is he actually getting into the rhythm of this?! Which isn't as comfortable or as helpful as it probably should be.

...but as a secondary higgledy now joins the fray, the pair of them dancing away, and then finally actually joining into the dance exercise - with tiny hiiigle! piigle!s and fists pumping up from side to side - the ridiculousness of it...actually makes Tidus accept how goofy he feels doing any of this.

Which is a good time to accept that the moves might not be as 'masculine' as he's into, 'Switch!' coming into their ears, and the holo-coach starts doing leg stretches: hands resting on their hips and one leg stretching out as they bend the knee of the other, and then swapping sides after a few bends of the knee.

There might be a bit of salvation here for Tidus.

Mostly in the fact that while Inigo can follow the moves well enough, and that especially following the rhythm is very easy for him.. Inigo is not very much of a stretcher. Especially not compared to mister workout himself over here.

Which means that once they get started on these moves, it goes pretty well for Inigo at first.

Doing it one side a few times, sure. Doing it on the other side, okay. Returning to the first side, and.. ow. Inigo doesn't stop moving, but he's definitely wincing as he speaks up with: "Uh.. is it supposed to hurt?"

He thought they were going to dance! That they were going to have fun!!

"Eh?" Tidus was getting into the moves, though once the stretches started, Hibber-Gibbers - try as he might! - doesn't have the long limbs of a human, and as he wiggles with tiny stub fists stretching out one way, turns to do it in the other, he falls over with a tiny 'hiiig!', the other casualty in the car.

But also, the higgledies do that all the time, so Tidus gives him one look and then takes his gaze over to Inigo.

"Hurt? Where does it hurt?" The exercise coach is ignored as she continues on, the music also continuing, though one of the earbuds coming out so he can hear Inigo better.

"Well, it's just.."

His voice trails off. It's hard to explain, okay. It just hurts. Not dramatically so, but definitely in a way that he usually never feels when he's just dancing by himself. But then again, the movements he uses at times like those are much different than these, and also less repetitive.

He's also ignoring the higgledy antics, but they sure keep on going. Gibbers has dramatically fallen over, causing Jumblie to stop what she's doing as well, running up to her fellow higgledy's side as she starts nudging him with her stubby little arms. Hang in there, friend..!!

In the meantime, Inigo continues his explanation. Or tries to, anyway.

"It kind of feels like I'm straining myself..? Maybe?"

Higgledies are gonna higgledo. Gibbers scrambles back onto his feet, head wobbling back in the motion. But he stands upright, stretching out both his stubby little arms! And then starts to dance again with all the ease and animation of a child.

Meanwhile, Tidus checks his wristbands, finds the option to pause the routine, the voice saying 'Session paused' in their ears. Looks Inigo over, lips tugged aside.

"Where? In your legs? Did you move too fast?" Did he wake up stiff? Which is hard to imagine for a guy like Inigo - he's active; the last thing he should be is stiff!

"Is it a stiff pain, or sharp? In your legs?"

Since that's when Inigo began complaining, and Tidus makes the motion they were before: stretching out one leg while leaning his weight on the knee pointed to the other. Use him to signal where the pain came up, bro!!

(Don't mind Inigo over here as he can't help but wince for a moment at the woman suddenly speaking up in his ear again with something other than 'switch'. He's fine. It's cool. This is totally normal.)

"No, it's just-- I think it's because I'm not used to moving like this. This way of dancing is.. very odd." Then again, you'd wonder what he expected out of a dance workout..

Though the truth of that is that Inigo had absolutely no idea what a dance workout is, and he holds his thigh for a moment.

"It's like my body is telling me to stop making those same moves over and over."

Huh, his body telling him not to? Tidus gets out of the position he's put himself into and gives the guy a look over, humming quietly to himself. Really, from what he's hearing...

"Maybe you just need to get used to it? What kind of stretches do you do before dancing usually?"

Inigo does some kind, surely?

There's just silence on Inigo's end as he stands there, staring at Tidus. His gaze shifts to the higgledies for a moment before it slides right back to Tidus's face - though not looking any less confused.

"Before dancing?"

Dude.

People stretch before they dance?

...bro???

"Yeah?" Bro. Bro why are you looking at him like that, have the same look back. "To stretch your muscles? Like you do before practice. So you don't hurt them? It loosens them up, that's why we're repeating the motions."

Right? Right? Even guys back in the past for war did that, right?

...

He's thinking really hard over here. Did any of his friends do it back home? He's never seen Gerome do it before stepping on his wyvern before, for one.. Maybe Kjelle did it, considering she's so serious? But it's exactly that seriousness that makes him unable to imagine her moving like this.

The whole deal just remains confusing. Which is why, after a moment or two of really, really making those gears in his brain grind away, Inigo just says: "I've never done that before."

At least he's being honest, rather than stupidly bluffing his way out of this.

"....Oh."

It's that knowledgeable kind of oh, where he's thinking through a few things himself, like Have I ever seen Inigo do that? -- and realising, along with Inigo's response, that he never has seen the other guy do stretches. And he's never bothered to bring it up, since who's he to say Inigo was never doing them before he showed up for practices?

So he blinks, taking in this new piece of information.

"Well... let's do some simple ones, see how your body takes to them." Right? He doesn't want Inigo to pull a muscle here, so. He stretches out an arm in its opposite direction, hooking it with his other.

"You've seen me do this, right? These help your shoulders. You wanna do each side for ten seconds, and look the other way. Work on your neck too."

And you don't need to ask Tidus to do his stretches, since he'll stand posing in the way he means, then wait for Inigo to copy him.

"I've seen you do a lot of things."

It's mostly said with a bit of humor, because really, it had been impossible to not see Tidus constantly stretching - but Inigo thought it was just a Tidus thing. Or a blitzball thing. Not a general human thing that he just missed out on because his world seems to be so different from most other worlds represented in this place.

Which is a lot to process here - and honestly, there's a part of this whole train experience that's made more annoying because of it, that it's been almost a year and he's still finding out about new things that some people around him consider deadly normal - but Inigo tries to not think about it too hard for now.

Instead he just tries to do. Moving his arms to copy Tidus. It's a little uneasy at first, considering he's not exactly used to the positioning of this arms like that, but then he seems to get it and starts moving.

Though as he's moving, he slowly speaks up with: ".. Do you think these are just normal in Zanarkand, or in more places?"

There's not a lot of moving, really. They need to keep the pose with a countdown in their heads, though Tidus has done it long enough to figure when to switch and stretch the other side.

"Hmm - yoga's a form of stretching. So, I guess there's other places. You should ask Roland?" He might know, or at least it was another world to compare it with.

"I guess it depends on what you know, or what you've got going on. We learned to do this to help with muscles not cramping up. Trying to keep your body safe so you're not out of it for a week, you know?"

It's casually given, just information he learned from health training. He puts a hand to the side and stretches out the other.

"Try this one, see how it feels. Get it comfortable."

Hopefully, Inigo won't feel any real pain.

Inigo lets out a breath - it's hard to determine the emotion behind it, but while he doesn't exaclty look upset, he doesn't seem happy either, not really.

"I guess we were a little too busy to worry about muscles cramping up."

After all, most of the time they didn't even have time to prepare for battle. Maybe a few times in the past, but in the future? They hardly even had time to rest before they had to get up and run right back into battle, to not even start about the times they had been caught off guard mid-rest. What time to warm up had been there? What energy had been there to worry about how your muscles felt when you were busy just trying to not totally bleed out?

Inigo shakes his head to himself, moving to the other pose Tidus is using now.

".. I'm not sure I like how this feels though." Not that it really hurts, but it all feels so weird. And with how fussy Inigo is? Of course he's going to worry if it's just because he's never done this before or if there's just something officially wrong with him personally. (Thank god there was no way to google medical symptoms in Ylisse the way there is in modern worlds, or Inigo would always believe he was dying.)

That makes sense as Tidus listens to Inigo reflect on back home, nothing he comments on. If Inigo didn't do it, then that's fair; their experiences were different, and why would even that be the same? Did the people in the armies do it? The warrior monks?

Still, Tidus is reassuring, pausing before he moves to stretch his other side.

"That's fine - you're not used to it. It's gonna feel funny the first time you do it. You only spend about a minute doing it, then you get ready for your workout. You stretch your arms, your legs... it's like waking up your body before you really start moving."

Easy, no problem. And instead of doing the stretch he's supposed to, he's goes for one similar to the dance warm-up move: moving a leg behind him while he puts weight onto leg bending forward, hands resting on his sides.

"This one's good for your waist, and stretching your legs. I like these ones the best!"

Then again, he likes the arms one too... especially after getting into sword fighting!

Look at this expert over here.

Though it is true - Tidus has about a thousand lightyears' worth of more experience with this than Inigo, so why wouldn't he be inclined to listen to the other on this? It's why Inigo is following his every move here, although now the tables seem to have flipped. Whereas Tidus felt ridiculous doing the dancing moves, now Inigo feels like he must be looking ridiculous. Especially since he sure can feel that muscle in his leg when he stretches it backwards.

Maybe his body just doesn't want to wake up. Or maybe he's just bummed that even this, even dancing of all things, ends up evolving into something he doesn't understand. Just like everything has, for a long while now.

But Tidus seems so into it that Inigo tries to smile a little all the same as he does it, really trying to push down that mood, though he can feel it brewing in his stomach.

"You really thought before about which of these you like the most?"

"Sure! Everyone has a favourite something, right?" So why not favourite stretches? Though his choices didn't differ far from those that were recommended for blitzballers, and he shakes his arms now, like he's loosening them up that way after a few stretches.

"S'not so bad, huh?" ...though, he is picking up a leg and bending it behind him. He can never turn off the stretches. "You should try them before you do practice! You don't have to spend long, a minute and you're done. What do you think? We could see what other routines they have, if you wanna skip the one we were on."

That was just a warm-up anyway, right? A guy like Inigo would want to see what else they have, surely!

"It's not bad! Just.. strange. Is doing this for a minute really going to do anything?"

Other than make his muscles feel all weird, anyway? Or maybe that's the intended effect. Make his muscles feel weird in advance so they won't feel weird later. Inigo sure doesn't know.

And though he's trying to not show that uncertainty too much, it's hard to not let it slip out a little when Tidus goes ahead and asks him that question.

"And I-- uh, I don't know. I really thought it was going to be a different kind of dancing."

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