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Go girl

I’m literally in love with her

If I wasn’t gay before…

btw: she’s in the upcoming Black Widow movie 😍 and—

—holyfuckingshitballs. 💖 

[i am looking respectfully]

I keep mulling over s4e3 and the revelation that Zarkon never trained Lotor because it creates this obvious schism of, well someone clearly did. Someone taught this kid how to fight, and well.

Lotor emphasizes that Dayak was his governess, not his nanny. While these words are sometimes synonymous, they mean slightly different things, generally- a nanny’s job is usually to tend to the needs of a very young child, while a governess is often more specifically an educator, and given care of a slightly older child. Dayak’s design and mannerisms also pretty clearly evoke an old-fashioned schoolteacher, down to the switch that she carries.

Lotor heavily implies that his instruction in galra culture came from Dayak when he recommends her as a teacher to Hunk, but as we see from Hunk’s session with her, Dayak’s training also heavily focuses on the physical.

The other interesting angle to this is that Dayak and Lotor have very similar fighting styles, if you look at how Dayak uses that switch. She uses a medium-length one-handed weapon, keeping her body very precisely controlled, targets different areas of the body very quickly and has a pretty impressive arm to back up her speed.

Given the glimpse of galra culture Dayak gives us (and just about everything else about them we’ve seen) is very martial, it’s entirely possible that combat would have merely been considered an ordinary piece of Lotor’s education, but given that it was the site of some contention between Lotor and Zarkon- that Zarkon never taught Lotor personally, when that’s an honor he dispensed to Sendak- I have to wonder. 

After all, as I’ve pointed out before, while Dayak hasn’t spoken of Zarkon directly onscreen, she seems to think rather poorly at him given how she congratulates Lotor for destroying his enemies- when, with Sendak at large, the primary enemy Lotor destroyed was Zarkon.

It’s especially interesting given Lotor’s favored weapon is clearly an Altean broadsword, which has a straight blade compared to the curved slashing edges of galra weaponry. I wonder how long he’s had that, and if Dayak helped procure it for him.

So the important details here are:

1. Dayak was most likely the person who taught Lotor how to swordfight. She may have supported his interest in Altean culture as she did so.

2. Given Lotor’s level of skill and the speed and agility with which Dayak uses that switch, this would imply that she is a swordswoman of devastating caliber herself, and in fact could probably kill a man in single combat in an honor duel, even if she was almost definitely fucking with Hunk about challenging him over running off to save the universe.

She probably has actually killed someone in an honor duel at least once.

Oh my god, these world class fencers are having a LIGHTSABER DUEL.

@drakenflagreon

good shit gOOOD SHIT

@monocheshaa

I would DIE FOR THIS

FIGHT!!!

my danny redesign + a staff because I wanna see him fight with one

Time for train! :3

Sketches of the day for test poses :)

hope you like it! :D

Breakdown of an AK-47.

I always loved the “The Way Things Work” books.

Check out the entry and exit wounds for the .22, 9mm, and .45

for research okay I’m not about to visit a morgue

I’m not a murderer, I swear

useful

Resource: How to Use a Weapon

Violence, fights, tension–three words that often carry a story a long, especially anything in the fantasy, sci-fi, or action-adventure realm. Whether it’s hand-to-hand combat (see older resource posts), or weapon usage, fights should be as realistic as possible: the focus should be on the fiction, the characters, and story, not your reader scratching their head saying “that could never really happen.” Here are some resources I hope will help as you embark on your more “weapon-based” scenes:

Basics/Writing Scenes With Weapons:

Knives and Guns:

Remember, not all your characters will be experts, but if they are, the technical usage is important. If your character is a novice, not all of these resources will be helpful to you, but it’s important to note what works and what doesn’t in these scenarios. 

Understanding Boxing - Masterlist

Generalities

Badleftbook — Navigating Boxing’s Alphabet Titles

iSport Boxing

Howtofightwrite 

Extra useful websites

-Alex