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Sasaki Rui should be in fate/
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a 17th century figure known as "The Strangely-Dressed Female Sword Master"
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was left as the last member of her clan but personally revived it
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refused for a long time to get married, instead dressing in male clothing while wearing her hair up in the indoor style while outdoors and fighting samurai street gangs
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Edo northern district commissioner Ishigaya Sadakiyo told her to stop being so awesome but it was ultimately rumors of her bravery that led to her eventual marriage and the revival of the Sasaki clan
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I fell down the Wow Cool Swords wikipedia hole
BWAAAAAH!
holy shit
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Now I want a story where Julie d’Aubigny and Sasaki Rui travel the world in the 17th century being sword badasses
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Ishigaya: Please. Stop being so cool
Rui: I can't
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fun fact
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the naginata is historically associated with women, because a lot of famous woman warriors in medieval japan favored it
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its combination of reach and versatility are strong advantages against the on-average superior size and strength of male opponents
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if you're small and want to fight tols, get you a polearm
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Yeah, a point I’ve seen in a lot of FRPG discussions is why halflings, gnomes, goblins, etc don’t favor polearms?
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there was a youtube series about the optimal weapons for different fantasy races
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the one that stuck with me the most was giants with scythes
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just reap humans like wheat
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Also I really want to pair Rui and Julie up with one of the famous badass pirate ladies but all the ones I know of were in either the 16th or 18th centuries
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Anne Dieu-le-Veut - Wikipedia these seem to be the main two
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Oh! How the fuck did I forget Anne Dieu-Le-Veut? I literally based a likeable antagonist off of her in one of my Star Wars campaigns.
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Grace O'Malley - Wikipedia
But unfortunately a century early
A Grinning DM
Yeah she was one of the first I thought of
A Grinning DM
But an adventuring party of three badass ladies, a “samurai”, a bard, and a pirate, adventuring across the 17th century world. I want to see that
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