that Fresia chooses the sword (and explicitly refuses any other weapon) fits with that, since if you shoot at each other, there's no way of excluding serious wounding at the least and death otherwise if you actually aim, and if you shoot in the air, then "honour" will not be satisfied by a wound. Whereas presumably noblemen who had fencing lessons for years are able to wound without lethal intention.
I never thought of that, that makes a lot of sense.
Baron Keith, who, however strange and bizarre he was, was however anything but a coward
Hmm, yeah!
which perhaps had as a motive or jealously concealed pretext an amorous rivalry
Is clearly pure speculation but reminds of how the Katte family framed the duel between Hans Herrmann's little half brothers as being about a girl when it was all about money, but considering these two aren't related and arguing about an inheritance, that's out.
Ooh. That is very interesting.
I stand by my "Peter's youthful fling with Fritz was dragged into it" theory. :)
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Re: Dueling: The Sequel!
Date: 2025-06-08 10:30 pm (UTC)that Fresia chooses the sword (and explicitly refuses any other weapon) fits with that, since if you shoot at each other, there's no way of excluding serious wounding at the least and death otherwise if you actually aim, and if you shoot in the air, then "honour" will not be satisfied by a wound. Whereas presumably noblemen who had fencing lessons for years are able to wound without lethal intention.
I never thought of that, that makes a lot of sense.
Baron Keith, who, however strange and bizarre he was, was however anything but a coward
Hmm, yeah!
which perhaps had as a motive or jealously concealed pretext an amorous rivalry
Is clearly pure speculation but reminds of how the Katte family framed the duel between Hans Herrmann's little half brothers as being about a girl when it was all about money, but considering these two aren't related and arguing about an inheritance, that's out.
Ooh. That is very interesting.
I stand by my "Peter's youthful fling with Fritz was dragged into it" theory. :)
Ha! I mean, it's a great theory!