Ananta

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Bulma:

FGO11周年おめでとうございます！

（遅刻しました！ごめんなさい！）

今年はソロモンを添えて。

（指輪の数に拘りました）

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I understand cases like Rhaenyra in House of the Dragon who wasn't given formal training and never got the chance to accumulate experience in combat like the men of her family due to being a woman but it feels so dissonant to see a grounded approach taken for her & the other women (with like, one exception who's actually a fighter and she doesn't even do that much) while on the side there's Daemon who can storm a castle alone and kill an entire group of armored guards without breaking a sweat or even being hit once, or Criston being an immortal terminator who even while falling in a trap and taken by surprise still kills everyone and it takes the arrival of a whole army to stop him. It literally gets in the way of the grounded politics too because when Rhaenyra does the political maneuvering that's expected from the story rather than the idealized heroism it nominally refutes and manages to have an entire group of assassins right in front of the completely unsuspecting Ormund and Daeron with only Alicent's brother to protect them, the latter just. kills them all by himself no problem. Like what the hell are we doing here. Why do the "realistic power dynamics" only come into place when it comes to the women while the men get to have their idealized superiority as legendary knights?

Or for another example, Vinland Saga. It does that thing where it's technically grounded and realistic and mostly based on real history while showing the vikings as superhumanly strong, which means we end up with the women being just as strong as untrained women are in real life while the men around them keep doing insane shit like fighting dozens of people alone or cutting people in half with one swing or easily destroying super strong vikings who can in turn easily destroy normal soldiers and so on. Hild as the only strong woman (aside from Cordelia) in the setting needs to rely on traps and tactics and long-ranged attacks to win. It's not even a matter of prejudice stopping the women from getting access to training and fighting in general because strength is pretty much shown as natural from birth (Garm is so naturally strong he was already killing adult men as a kid, Cordelia never trained or fought a day in her life but she was still insanely powerful due to breing treated as having a man's strength and is direct proof of how Vinland sees the difference as entirely biological).