Juniper (thinking): Once the trainers get to know you, they can usually predict what kind of sword you’ll draw. Marula kept them guessing.
Artie (thinking): Backsword?
Gerri (thinking): Dagger?
Juniper (thinking): Nobody predicted that she would pull a heart-bone saw.
Marula (flashback): So . . . this means I’m an excellent sawbones, and you should definitely start assigning me to surgeries now, right?
Artie (flashback): It means we should’ve noticed you’re here because you’d like to cut people up.
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Did Marula know, going into heartsword training, that her sociopathy might be revealed by the type of blade she drew?
I mean… She must have. “Your heartsword is shaped by your personality. there’s no way to force or fake it.”
You can clearly, however, fake out the trainers long enough to learn how to draw one.
I was about to say, this actually is a pretty understandable situation for Ceannic screeners. Sociopaths are pretty good at playing the game until they get what they want/finally get revealed.
Gerri did have Marula down as “Sneaky”, and Artie’s assessment says is “Determined”.
Both of those are traits that you’d need ‘play the game’.
Did she KNOW she’s sociopath?
Does this mean she lives with some form of paraphilia or this world’s version of one? Will we learn why she wants to cut up people?
she has some of the ol’ Li Hua vibes, eh?
Exactly what I’ve been thinking! I love all the ways those characters keep coming back here
Ohhh, she is straight-up AU Li Hua.
(A bunch of the other knights are AU versions of her teammates, too…especially the posthumous ones, since it made more sense than creating new characterizations from scratch for people we were barely even going to see.)
… what Li Hua? My Google-fu is weak for this one …
A character from Erin’s His Dark Materials/Welcome to Night Vale fanfic series, Republic of Heaven Community Radio: https://archiveofourown.org/series/73831
Huh. That’s certainly original.
Will we find out why she likes cutting up people? Does she have some kind of paraphilia.
“Paraphilia” would mean it’s sexual, and it’s not a kink! It’s just the kind of high-functioning sociopath she is.
Ah okay so she’s a high functioning sociopath and has violent tendencies then? Would that make her prone to becoming a murderer or serial killer? I just ask because I’ve met some high functioning sociopaths before who had no violent tendencies, just very antisocial behavior.
An excellent question, which you should keep in mind as this storyline goes on.
Okay, will do 😊.
I better get this meme out of the way. Ahem:
BOOONNEEE SAWWW ISSSS READDYYYY!
Thank you.
I’VE GOT YOU FOR THREEEEEE WHOOOOOLEEEEE MINUTES!!!!
What sword is appropriate for someone who’s prepared to do their very best and to give it their all… For money.
I suspect that would be the dagger.
I’m sure Li Hua would be very unnerving in person, but as a fictional character she’s fantastic and I love her.
WHOOPS I meant Marula specifically XD
Small clarification: A heart-saw is just as effective as a heartsword right? Can still cut through any materiel without issue? I mean a serrated blade is gonna fuck you up but there’s a reason for issuing bayonets instead of hacksaws.
At a guess, heartblades are always preternaturally sharp, but still fall foul of the foibles of the blade type. Birch’s rapier is described by Annie as “Not much good for, ah . . . chopping.”
Oh, I didn’t realize that was your fic! It’s always been one of my top favorite fics out there, and that’s despite me going into it knowing basically nothing about WTNV.
And apparently the comment section doesn’t like me… this was re: the Li Hua comment up above
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