Well, that's just it: did Haresh have reason to believe Duncan was a new immortal? And well... that's the Game, honestly. Haresh just played it harder than Duncan did. Not my style, but certainly nothing against the rules.
Hmm. Are you asking this in my universe or out? Because canon in the series never did specify that immortals could feel a power difference. As to killing to eat... none of them *have* to kill, honestly. We're looking at killing in self-defense and killing for power, I think.
::laughing:: I think I had some good reason for this back when, but I don't remember it now. (Mind, I'm not discounting the possibility that I simply screwed up, either!)
Honestly, however, it would make more sense for Rich to have picked up another saber. Graham, if I remember correctly, was using a basket-hilted longsword (straight blade, double edged, ornate hilt). Rich was using a plain hilt saber (curved blade, double edged only partway along one side, and the hilt doesn't trap your wrist). Not only is Rich not trained to the longsword (although the practice won't hurt him), but there are things you can do with a curved blade that you can't do as well with a straight. (And vice versa, of course.) Throw in that most martial arts schools teach curved blades (Chinese broadsword and katana come most immediately to mind, but saber is taught at fencing schools) and well... yeah. I think my brain defaulted him back to saber.
Thank you for catching it and making me think about it!
Why are there only three Haresh Clay/Carter Wellan stories out there? Well... I think the episode is seriously flawed. I am glad that HL gave us canonical m/m life partners, even if sexuality wasn't mentioned, but the episode on the whole is one of my least favorites, and the character motivations throughout are muddy and unconvincing, IMO. Neither Clay nor Wellan got any kind of character development that intrigued me in the least, and the flashbacks aren't terribly compelling, again IMO. Duncan's actions at the end of the episode make sense to me only if I believe that he was stepping between Richie and a sword to make up for what happened in Something Wicked, regardless of whether or not it was right for him to do so. I kind of like how flawed both Duncan and Richie are in this episode, but the overall pacing and structure of the ep didn't carry that through very well
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Then again she exists in an AU where the sword that Richie carries around is his saber, not Graham Ashe's sword.
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Honestly, however, it would make more sense for Rich to have picked up another saber. Graham, if I remember correctly, was using a basket-hilted longsword (straight blade, double edged, ornate hilt). Rich was using a plain hilt saber (curved blade, double edged only partway along one side, and the hilt doesn't trap your wrist). Not only is Rich not trained to the longsword (although the practice won't hurt him), but there are things you can do with a curved blade that you can't do as well with a straight. (And vice versa, of course.) Throw in that most martial arts schools teach curved blades (Chinese broadsword and katana come most immediately to mind, but saber is taught at fencing schools) and well... yeah. I think my brain defaulted him back to saber.
Thank you for catching it and making me think about it!
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