The Many Sword Forms of Gerard of Greenleigh (Compilation) 

I was thinking Tony the Tiger: "They're GR-R-R-REAT!"

literally scrollod for the comments to say this and it is the top comment XD 'nuff said

So a Murph character.

Well said. It was about damned time he got to go feral, though. And as it turns out, when you have a ton of emotional intelligence like Murph, acting like an immature dudebro is fucking _hysterical._ I'm glad he got to have such a good time this season.

Him playing two different kinds of himbos in the last two seasons is the kind of balance the world needed

@@Drekromancer Well don't forget Starstruck! Barry was one of the funniest characters that season(and that season was already unhinged from the start!)

@@plumeria1985 sometimes I think about "imagine if you will, me" and just laugh quietly to myself

@@thejunkmommydon’t forget dumbass edgelord in Unsleeping City season 2!

Saw one the other day that was supposedly depicting a ringen method for disarming a dagger. My mans looked like he had three left feet and no neck.

Historical treatises are fucking hard bro

I do HEMA, and this is incredibly relatable

I do HEMA, and this is incredibly relatable

i mean id imagine theyre not really meant to teach you the moves outright, but more as a reference guide you can use after you initially learn them with a coach

lou and murph have switched roles

Wow, never noticed the unintentional foreshadowing. That makes it much more interesting when he really does perform a heroic sacrifice later on. Turns out he was more than empty blustering after all.

@@Drekromancer because we didn't know The Secret

Hoky shit mæn

Fully half of the great Achille Marozzo's sword plays should be referred to this way. I mean half of them begin with something like, "And if the misfortune should ever befall you-"

*That's* the guy's name! I've been trying to remember it since I saw the video

I can 100% imagine Lan shouting out 2 Eels for Supper lmao

One day you must sheathe the sword, Rand. You must undergo the plight of the honeybee. Sheat

That's an actual Wheel of Time one called "Sheathing the Sword" lmao

Horrifyingly hilarious!

Seriously Fantasy High season 2 was way more horrific than NeverAfter. NeverAfter is more of an uncanny valley, creepy vibe rather than true horror IMO. And paradoxically it turned out to be one of the most unhinged and hilarious season.

I feel like Brennan tried really hard to make it a genuine "horror" season but the Intrepid Heroes just weren't having it... in particular, the "Queen of Chaos", Emily Axford. By the last episode, it was just a big cartoon party.

@@OdeOneEleven Well almost everyone did silly things (I wonder if they were subconsciously bringing in comedy to break the tension); and Brennan mostly just played along and "yes and"-ed all the silliness, or almost all of it. I think if he really wanted to, he could have reigned it in a little bit in the first few episodes by not engaging with all the jokes. But they were probably all just having too much fun and Dropout is a comedy platform after all.

​@@math9172I share this stance with you, and have seen a decent interpretation as to why that is. Horror is rooted in the feeling of being helpless in a situation and a fear of the unknown. The Nightmare King achieved this by being a constant threat that they couldn't swing a sword at or run away from, forcing them to meticulously set up sleeping arrangements or face pretty grave consequences. It isn't until the last few sessions that an explanation for what's truly going on even starts to happen, but to solve any of it they have to go into the forest where the Nightmare King makes the rules. In Neverafter, every encounter is prefaced by the context of the setting. Social interactions start mental "Guess who" games until the five seconds it takes for someone to pick up the right hints an KNOW who they're dealing with. Worse yet, they have the biggest piece of the solution in their possession from the very beginning, and are explicitly told so in session 1. Brennan did a lot of leg work to twist these fable visually, but that made it more gore than horror.

I was just thinking that!! You KNOW he was thinking of Ren :D

Using the Titles of the sword play also let's the reader imagine it in there own way. Even if you don't know the actual forms, you can paint the pictures yourself.

That is adorable as all get.

Funnily enough, (having read only the early books), I'd much rather have a description of the actual moves instead of a list of esoteric sounding names. Maybe that's because I have a HEMA background where there's an "Oberhau" (Overstrike) instead more fantastical forms (although there is a guard called Unicorn, The Iron Gate, etc in Fiore's books. So it's not all HEMA that's to the point, just the German sources)

@@l.o.b.2433 somewhere there's a chart. I think it was HEMA peeps who tried to figure out each form then described illustrated it. I'd have to go find the link.....

@@stevendonaldson1216 I found a RU-vid channel of HEMA people practicing these forms and that's pretty cool. It just doesn't work for me in written format

Reminds me of Hak Foo from the Jackie Chan cartoon, who was always naming his attacks. "Angry crow takes flight" (leaping forward to attack) being his most common, but "rabid hamster rides wheel" (grabbing a water wheel to climb out of a river) always sticks in my head.

And Omi from Xaoilin Showdown 😂

@@eliasmolck5566 oh I wish I'd known about that Rabid Hamster one, that would be a perfect fit! I wanted the forms to reflect harmless creatures being mildly annoying - I think the most threatening I came up with was probably "Sparrow Plucks Your Berries"

@@Fallenharmony13 I had to look him up on Fandom. And yeah, I can totally see it; weighs less than 20 pounds, all over the shen gong wu, voiced by Tara Strong, that's Mouse Crumb!

"Silent Cricket in Your Ear", what a band name

Pretty sure he just wrote the names down in his notebook

@@marys4038 I dunno, I feel like Murph has shown commitment to prop bits before. We're talking about the guy who made a mini scroll for one throwaway gag in Crown of Candy after all.

I envision a bunch of scribbles, that they improv from. My table would totally run with it: ""What's this one? Is that your mum wrestling with a lich?"

i think the "that man is so skinny" is in reference to stick figures that Murph must've drawn lol

@@jamesjoy7547 That illustration is for the form, "Mother's quieting embrace." It's intended to neutralize a spellcaster. If you look closely, that's the guy from the other forms wearing a wig and a dress. See, he still has that pointy goatee, or is that his chin? I guess he was just that into portraying the forms accurately.

He would kill himself with it before he managed one.

Yes, but just once

non spoiler spoiler: it’s a lot of hair until it gets down

He goes full frog at one point, does that count?

​@@woodsytheowlscharedcorpse4761 Frog wild

The reasoning was different. Basically the martial arts was supposed to be a secret, so he used the names so he wouldn't have to describe what it looked like.

I see it as acknowledgement, not slander.

@@GZilla311 True but he did my boy Galad dirty in NADDPOD. As Johnathan Joestar puts it "UNFORGIVABLE!" I do appreciate the shoutout tho.

@@rajasurapaneni3501 Ah that’s fair. Galad is amazing.

I miss as Pawpaw

For real, it's not very scary but its so funny I love it

@@nehemiahsomers4141 its got the creepy horror aesthetic around it with haunting images and then the cast comes in and has fun bits but if you think about a man sized frog for too long its kinda scary. especially if you’re a frog owner and have experienced them putting anything that can fit in their mouth in said mouth and eating it. Gerard could have easily been a killer if he wasn’t so Gerard.

Pathetic? Did you not hear? He's a real hero!

He's just trying to be a *GOOD FRIEND* for his *EX WIFE*

I should be doing... _snake in the bouquet!_

Darling- *_this rules_*

I can’t believe I forgot about the sniff

Plight of the Honeybee has Ice Feast love in my heart

“WHAT DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND PINOCCHIO-“ “I think it’s beautiful 🥺”