Your first mistake was using a swinging weapon in an environment where only thrusting weapons have any chance, your second was having such a poor grip that despite being able to breathe underwater and being a higher lifeform than man this dipshit was able to take the sword from you…
Which goes back to problem one, as you had no way to swing the sword with enough force to do anything to the fish
From the angle it looked like the plan was to let the force of the onrushing fish impale itself, rather than time a slash to coincide with its onslaught. As for choice of tools, perhaps it’s the only sharp one available to her. As for grip, I don’t know what is standard for mermaids or whatever she is. She may have just found that sword 5 minutes ago from a shipwreck, and had no time to practice.
Remember, the theme of the comic is that she’s not some super-special “lady of the lake”, and instead is more just a girl with a weapon in her hand, or at least she did for a brief moment! So her not being prepared seems to go hand in hand (so to speak) with that.
None of those details are likely to make it into King Arthur’s (fishy) tales that he will tell all his friends about “how I became king, once upon a time…”, especially as the tail (ah… see what I did there!?:-) grows with each retelling.
![Lady of the Lake [Drawerofdrawings]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/308cbfbf-0349-4e4c-bbb4-409a2f23cf39.jpeg){kind=link}
Your first mistake was using a swinging weapon in an environment where only thrusting weapons have any chance, your second was having such a poor grip that despite being able to breathe underwater and being a higher lifeform than man this dipshit was able to take the sword from you…
Which goes back to problem one, as you had no way to swing the sword with enough force to do anything to the fish
I don’t know if we need to criticise her choice of weapon as much as his.
It’s rocking a fucking flail underwater.
A comically oversized flail, that realistically would have drawn him down into the depths
Depends on it’s buoyancy, though. Perhaps it’s not metal?
It’s got other tactical issues. The chain being too long and the handle being too short. Overall it’s not going to do much as a weapon.
But that’s not really the point
From the angle it looked like the plan was to let the force of the onrushing fish impale itself, rather than time a slash to coincide with its onslaught. As for choice of tools, perhaps it’s the only sharp one available to her. As for grip, I don’t know what is standard for mermaids or whatever she is. She may have just found that sword 5 minutes ago from a shipwreck, and had no time to practice.
Remember, the theme of the comic is that she’s not some super-special “lady of the lake”, and instead is more just a girl with a weapon in her hand, or at least she did for a brief moment! So her not being prepared seems to go hand in hand (so to speak) with that.
None of those details are likely to make it into King Arthur’s (fishy) tales that he will tell all his friends about “how I became king, once upon a time…”, especially as the tail (ah… see what I did there!?:-) grows with each retelling.