#This is for like....humbling dumb wrigglers. fighting church kin who get pushy. some light reading material lol

[birchbow]

When u say Travye has bookkind does that mean he literally wacks his opponent with a book?

A startling reminder for me that I presumably have followers on this blog that haven't read/aren't interested in reading the enormous fic Travye appears in lmao. His main combat strife specibus is bonekind! A behemoth jawbone and a huge femur club, specifically. But against a small number of enemies, or especially for one-on-one challenges, he has a big heavy scripture book on a chain with a metal-bound spine that he can flip and swing to attack or defend. Shitty post-work doodling:

""[Your club] hits the spine of the book with a ring like metal as he brings it up shut and blocks you cold.  He swats your club aside with the weight of it, flips it in his frond and brings it around corner-first, and the fuckin’ thing plows in the side of your thorax like a club, knocks you sideways.

“Fuck!” you say, fair well motherfuckin’ impressed, and get your feet back under you to get your breath.  He’s still holding his book—flips it open, grinning at you now, and flips a page all delicate.  “Thought you used bonekind, brother.”

“Change yourself always like sand in the water, you motherfuckers hand-shaped of surf and whimsy,” he quotes at you, and snaps his book shut.  “Flexibility, brother Makara.  You never struggled with it before.  Think you’ll find most trolls don’t get advanced in age without a few tricks up their sleeves.”

“I’ll show you fuckin’ tricks,” you say, and dive back in with aim to knock his teeth out.

You’ve fought fankind before, and clubkind, and it’s a bit of the two each together, but fuck if he don’t use it well.  Lets you batter and work at him and uses that heavy dark cover as a shield and weapon at the same time, hardly moving off his spot, like a pillar you’re trying to tear down with your bare hands.""