[ It’s not exactly as quick and direct as she prefers to be, but if nothing else grappling like this lets her use her full strength to her advantage—if she can keep him from getting any limbs immobilised or getting her onto her front for long enough, then maybe she can turn this around.

There’s certainly no grace to it, but grace has never been South’s thing anyway. Some moves she’d try in a real fight, a fight where the limits on playing dirty are higher, she’d probably headbutt him—break his nose or something, that’s usually pretty damn distracting. But that’s too much damage for a spar like this and so instead she just has to try and use all her weight, all her strength, to get him on his back.

And she has to time it right. Push when his weight is the most unevenly distributed and— there, she picks a moment and shoves, throws her weight into rolling them over. The risk is almost overdoing it, putting enough momentum into it that he could flip them right back by keeping it going, and then she’s close to fucked.

She’s not sure she could jump to her feet fast enough even given an opening, now; not from her back, she’d have to roll, push herself up from her front, and that’d be a hell of an opening for Wash, instead. ]