Royal Rapier: Difference between revisions

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A type of [[Cool Sword]], the rapier is often associated with those of high class, or at least some suave character.

Note that in the hey-day of the rapier, it was as likely to be associated with traveling entertainers who gave what we would call “performances” with the rapier and buckler ([[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me|small shield]] ~~-- hence~~ the term [[Swashbuckler]]) as with the courtiers, like Pietro Monte, whose favorite weapon it was. Old-fashioned gentlemen of the Elizabethan period tended to despise the “foining” and dancing they associated with the weapon, and preferred the good old longsword.

Note that in the hey-day of the rapier, it was as likely to be associated with traveling entertainers who gave what we would call “performances” with the rapier and buckler ([[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me|small shield]]—hence the term [[Swashbuckler]]) as with the courtiers, like Pietro Monte, whose favorite weapon it was. Old-fashioned gentlemen of the Elizabethan period tended to despise the “foining” and dancing they associated with the weapon, and preferred the good old longsword.

If your characters are living in [[The Cavalier Years]], and especially musketeers are involved, you can definitely expect them to use rapiers.

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* ''[[Persona 3]]'': [[Ojou|Mitsuru's]] [[Weapon of Choice]]. [[Gratuitous French|C'est Magnifique]].

** While it is her default weapon, she can use any one-handed sword weapons, which include non-rapiers. She still, however, uses them ''as'' a rapier, slashing once on her first hit, stabbing multiple times on the second, and then ''[[Combat Stilettos|kicking the enemy in the face]]'' with the third.

** You can't mention the ''[[Persona]]'' series here without mentioning the original [[Royal Rapier]] wielder, Eriko Kirishima.

** You can't mention the ''[[Persona]]'' series here without mentioning the original Royal Rapier wielder, Eriko Kirishima.

* The Suikoden series provides us with quite a lot of characters wielding a rapier :

** Vincent de Boule, a former aristocrat from the Scarlet Moon Empire, uses one in ''Suikoden'' and ''[[Suikoden II]]''.