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Wait wait WAIT
What if
I went to the fair dressed as a faerie
And when I complimented someone's outfit
I said "may I have your name?"
And when they told me
I'd be like "haha that's mine now give me $5 if you want it back, or win against me in a game of avocado"
(avocado is a game like lemonade or elevator where you have to do some motions and say the alphabet until someone messes up and whatever letter they were on the other player gets to choose a new name for them, ex: you mess up on r your new name is ratshit)
Or other various silly things
Like let me hold your sword or wand or something
Y'all is this a good idea pls lmk
~The moment you realize that mostly and almost all your AUs are either based on popular things like CATCF and Coraline or @mintyfrosty‘s AUs like Ponyo and some that should actually be based on my books but have a hint of inspiration from the person’s AU(s).
Is this a bad thing?~
I was about to say, that sounds like Rusty-rambling. :D
So one of the other Tapas writers rambled about armor in the medieval world in the Tapas discord server, and I figured I should share it with you all because it's some really good stuff!
So depending on the type of armor, how you'd process it for reuse varies pretty heavily. Mail, for instance, is fairly easy to resize for someone else because you can add or remove links fairly easily. Same goes for repairs. A good thrust can bust through even riveted mail, but the damaged links can be replaced easily enough. Well, I say fairly easily. It's a pain in the ass to work with. But it's still cheaper on the whole than plate armor, and it's far more likely that someone who isn't a member of the nobility can get their hands on it. Plate armor can range from a simple cuirass to a full set. A full set is usually bespoke to the person, so you probably wouldn't try to steal the whole thing. It would take ages to remove it from a corpse, and if they ended up dead whilst wearing it, the stuff probably isn't worth the effort to begin with. A chestplate or helmet that's been stoved in by a warhammer isn't exactly a candidate for the "it'll buff out" treatment. Then there's the fact that the previous owner's family might reasonably expect this expensive and time consuming investment of theirs to be returned with the freshly minted corpse. So, take the good bits that you can get off in a hurry, but stripping the whole set is ill advised. You expect a helmet to go missing, but if someone's taking the time to remove, say, the codpiece, there will be questions. Recycling any sort of armor into weapons is probably not the best of ideas. The steel you'd want to use for armor is different than the steel you'd want to use for swords. Swords, especially around Europe, North Africa, etc, were typically through hardened and made to be flexible. Armor needs to be more rigid, so it would go through a different heat treat process and would need different carbon content. Not that medieval smiths knew what carbon was, exactly, but they had their own ways of grading steel. It can be done, but there are a lot of things that can be done that you wouldn't necessarily want to. I can, if I was so inclined, go to the shooting range in a tactical maid outfit. That doesn't mean it's a good idea. Full plate would be the equivalent to rocking up to battle in an M1 Abrams. Cool as hell, but waaaay to expensive for the average man at arms. Just about everyone would have a helmet of some kind, and there were all kinds of variations on armor that were more affordable to peasants pressed into military service. Gambesons, as you mentioned, were surprisingly effective. They could be augmented in a lot of useful ways, too. If you want a really good reference for historical arms and armor, there's an anime called Maria the Virgin Witch that gets a lot of stuff right. Not only in terms of styles and types, but how it was used and how one might reasonably expect to fight against it.
This all was written by Rusty! He's a great writer and has a whole bunch of novels out if any of you guys want to check it out!
(You guys should totally reblog this to help those who could use this information to see this <3)
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Henry VIII’s Horned Helmet, c.1511-1514
