#Duels

[that-gay-jedi]

Is that a lightsaber in your pocket or did your penis just cut my fucking hands off?

[vertigoartgore]

The cast of Sam Raimi's underrated western The Quick and the Dead : Leonardo DiCaprio (before Titanic), Gene Hackman (soon after Unforgiven), Sharon Stone (after Basic Instinct) and Russell Crowe (some years before Gladiator).

[thatsbelievable]

[legend-had-it]

rip zoro you wouldve loved being a cowboy

[illustratus]

The Knight Errant | Le Chevalier Errant

by Gustave Doré

[tentacion3099]

[victusinveritas]

Victorian ladies knew how to settle their differences. (Illustrated Police News, via Newspapers.com) This leaves out the topless duel between Austro-Hungarian nobility.

[uchiha-namikaze-spawn]

A type of fanfiction I need that is extremely rare to find is how used the characters are to something.

Like, jutsus, for an example, imagine Boruto (I'm going for Naruto: Next Gen for a better understanding) watching Sasuke and Naruto do signals with their hands too fast for human eye to capture and he stops and just thinks how difficult and how many times these shinobi had to use these hand signs in order to be able to even make it one handed - as its Sasuke case, in which he can even use another person's hand to use jutsus - and Boruto just ignores Kurama, sharingan, etc., etc. and focus on asking Naruto if he even knows what he is doing.

After awhile it must become muscle memory, right? You know you want the result to be a huge tower of water and just effortlessly acts on it, your brain not having to think it through, think about every detail so you don't end up with a small water puddle instead.

I know that Boruto is used with "the fastest you can hand sign the more skilled the shinobi" yadda-yadda but- imagine he has a moment to think out of the box as he analyses his father dueling with his sensei just for the sake of it-

[thefugitivesaint]

Benno Berneis (1883-1916), ''Das Leben'', 1905 Source

[atyd1960]

The Marauders as duels:

Lily & Pandora: The justice fighters- they’re out to get the ministry of magic, these bitches better watch out.

Remus & Mary: Gryffindor house’ Casanovas- everyone’s in love with them.

James & Marlene: Quidditch team buds- they will make you run laps around the castle at 5.50am, stay safe.

Evan & Barty: The unhinged due- they have genuine murderous intentions, they’re terrifying.

Regulus & Peter: The sulkers- don’t talk to them, they’re brooding.

[microcosme11]

General Jean-Louis-Ebénézer Reynier (1771-1814), Engraving by Elisabeth G. Herhan after a drawing by Jean-Urbain Guérin (wikimedia commons)

Reynier was the man who killed General Destaing in a duel because Destaing was insulted by Reynier's book about the Egyptian campaign. Destaing unwisely challenged him. Naps was pretty ticked off about it, but Reynier was too good to get rid of, so he served in countless campaigns after that. He was finally taken prisoner at Leipzig. The Russians offered him a commission but he declined and returned to France in a prisoner exchange. He died soon afterward, apparently being completely worn out.

[francepittoresque]

26 juin 1599 : arrêt du Parlement contre les duels ➽ http://bit.ly/Arret-Parlement-Duels Après les guerres civiles qui désolèrent la France vers la fin du XVIe siècle, les duels devinrent si communs que le parlement de Paris, usant de ses prérogatives, rendit un arrêt en forme de règlement dont on ne peut trop admirer la sagesse, et le premier d’une série d’édits prévoyant des peines sévères pour les contrevenants

[thisbluespirit]

Martin Jarvis as Karn in Arthur of the Britons 2.1 "The Swordsman" (HTV, 1973)

[shepherds-of-haven]

How common is duelling in the ShoH universe?

It's, like, common enough, but it's not happening on a daily basis, if that makes any sense? It's wayyy more common among bored and prideful nobles who just like to stir up drama and peacock at each other; when the common folk get mad at each other, they just brawl, there isn't any fancy formality about it that connotes it into a duel (unless you're a rapscallion like Trouble who goads nobles into dueling with him so he can take their stuff).

It's worth noting that, while dueling isn't illegal in Haven and you can't get in trouble for it, you can still get in trouble for killing someone in a duel, depending on who it is and the circumstances surrounding the whole affair. The old Autarch kind of put a soft ban on it because she felt too many young nobles were stupidly getting each other killed, but didn't want to take the "art" of it away entirely, so it's now a question of skill: if you can best your opponent and humiliate them without killing them (or turning them into a martyr), you're gucci, but if you kill them outright, you might still face a tribunal (again, really depends on who you killed and why). So that's definitely decreased the number of duels compared to the ones that were happening like 15-20 years ago, but it's still common enough that people aren't that fazed by it!

[elsewhereuniversity]

To whoever broke my keyboard: meet me in the Denny's parking lot at 11:30am. Bring a weapon. I will.