Injury to Order: Kids playing with sharp things

[brazenbells]

Hi, Little Details! It's been awhile

Comments

[rurounitriv]

My first thought would be that he tries to smack something with it, and it rebounds (because he misjudged the length, perhaps, and hit with the shaft rather than blade) and pops him in the face. He'd probably get a bloody nose, but nothing worse. For a hand injury, he might be trying to test the sharpness of the blade or make sure that him hitting something didn't damage the edge and oops!

[elenbarathi]

When my daughter was 13, she cut herself badly enough on her first sword that we had to leave the Faire and go to the ER to get her stitches, still in our glitter and Elf ears. The sword slipped out of its sheath as she was climbing over the railing of a bridge, and she caught it by the blade, slicing a good chunk out of her finger, but not severing the chunk, so it could be stitched back

[haldane]

As a mother with kids, I really like this scenario. "I was just putting it back!"

[brazenbells]

It definitely fits the scene :D

[nyxelestia]

While obviously elves age differently from humans, from the perspective of just how dumb kids can be, balanced against the fact these kids have had prior weapons training, this is actually the most likely situation for how they'd get hurt in the first place.

Also, if there are two kids, the likelihood that one of them accidentally hurts the other also goes up dramatically (i.e. one tries to do a cool move and doesn't see/remember where the other one is). In many ways, this could actually scare them off from playing with it even more - not the fear of the injury itself, but from the guilt of having hurt a friend.

[ldymusyc]

I have a scar on one of my fingers from playing with knives as a child. My brother and I were on a tree swing with a pocketknife. One the first swing, we'd thunk it into the tree; on the return swing, we'd grab it out. Did well for several minutes until I missed the handle and grabbed the blade. The swinging motion slid my finger down the edge. It was a fairly deep cut, but didn't require stitches. The massive amount of blood evvvvvvvvvvverywhere and the pain was enough to deter me from playing with knives ever again!

[brazenbells]

Haha, that is exactly the kind of lesson I want these two to learn :)

Thanks!

[anonymous]

My first thought is that one of them swings it, but the damn thing is too tall for them, the bottom of it strikes the ground, and then either jumps weirdly and slashes one, or their hand slips up the handle and they get a nasty cut on their palm.