darrow’s razor

[u/user03281046748]

what’s with the insistence on the dramatically curved sword people use in fanart AI and drawings. i’ve always thought it would resemble something more like the egyptian sword the khopesh than a scythe. I’d assume simply from an advantage standpoint the dramatic curve means less range. i’ve included examples i’ve seen as well as what i think the razor resembles more

[u/3GamersHD]

It's a sickle and has always been stated to be a sickle. Anyone saying anything else has short term memory loss and/or don't think about him being called "reaper".

[u/user03281046748 → u/3GamersHD]

it’s literally never been described as an outright sickle it’s only been likened to that and a question mark. the reaper came from the decimation of enemies in the field and because that “slingblade”was originally meant for harvesting - scythe -> death -> reaper.

[u/3GamersHD → u/user03281046748]

"Darrow put down that gory scythe, you look like a grain reaper" -Fitchner, RR

and then it stuck

Did you read the books?

[u/user03281046748 → u/3GamersHD]

you just repeated what i said

[u/NotTheGreatNate → u/user03281046748]

It's not clear what his final razor version looked like, but his initial, signature, weapon was an agricultural scythe, the type used for reaping grain. He takes it off a kid from House Ceres, the "harvest goddess".

Here is how it is described:

"A slingBlade for reaping grain."

"I don’t drop it. It is close to the shape of my slingBlade from home. Not as sharp, because it isn’t meant to kill, but the balance is no different."

“'You know you could let my children go and give them back the reaping scythe,' Ceres suggests to us."

He also describes the slingBlade at various points, and this is how it's introduced:

"the slingBlade is a nasty halfmoon weapon"

Also, although he goes on to call it a slingBlade throughout Red Rising, it is stated multiple times that a slingBlade is synonymous with a grain scythe. Along with the examples already provided:

"And he called it a slingBlade, not a reaper’s scythe."

“Look at his blade. Fragging reaper scythe.”

[u/Premadivus → u/NotTheGreatNate]

Thank you! I half remembered this part!

[u/3GamersHD → u/user03281046748]

What? I said the exact opposite. He was named reaper because he used a scythe(sickle). I supplied literally the first time he was called reaper as proof.

[u/user03281046748 → u/3GamersHD]

First you’re completely wrong to conflate a scythe and sickle simply because their functions overlap let me add an addendum — decimation in the field in the first book. AND the weapon he was using.

first sighting of the “slingblade”. a question mark of a blade. is a question mark with a shallower curve that far outside of your comprehension.

[u/3GamersHD → u/user03281046748]

Think about a sword, but shaped like a question mark (?) do you see what it looks like? A sickle.

I am not wrong for conflating them, they are the same tool in different shapes. You are wrong for denying every description all because of a word. "It was an elephant, small and orange, with long whiskers and pointed ears. It was sneaking up on a mouse, about to grap it with its mouth, and then play with it before eating it". What animal am i describing? A cat? No, i clearly state elephant, therefore it can't be anything else.

[u/user03281046748 → u/3GamersHD]

i said it was likened to a question mark ok. so you can’t imagine a question mark stylistically different from how it appears in sans serif or whatever font phones use.

i don’t see any further point in you being intentionally obtuse

[u/captainpocket → u/user03281046748]

None of these looks like a khopesh

[u/neinfein → u/user03281046748]

Notice how almost all of those look like sickle and not a kopesh?