Comedy/Tragedy of Errors: Stupidity in the Honorverse

SWM wrote:Cthia,

Ah, but he didn't do it.

(I think you messed up the formula on the last two words)

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cthia wrote:How is this for stupidity?

Major Dover decides to kill Justin while in the presence of the treecat Monroe.

Monroe rips out his throat with his claws.

"Whatsa matter, 'cat got your tongue?"

In Dover's defense (tepid on my part, mind you, he killed a very interesting character) he, as did most of the Palace, thought Monroe was dying as treecats were known to do when their person died.

He definitely didn't expect a dying 'animal' to understand that he (Dover) had murdered his person and rise from his deathbed to rip out his throat.

Ignorance, in this case, was not bliss.

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I hope a certain person does not have access to an Enigma machine.

SWM wrote:Cthia,

Ah, but he didn't do it.

(I think you messed up the formula on the last two words)

cthia wrote:Nah, just ran out of extra letters.

Crown of Slaves wrote:Victor almost cackled, as that absurd image flashed through his mind in the middle of his desperate lunge to do the one and only thing he was concerned about.

"Get that bastard AWAY from the switch. Die in the doing, if need be—but GET HIM AWAY FROM IT."

Later, he would realize it all happened within a few seconds. At the time, his lunge toward the Masadan by the suicide switch seemed to take an eternity. Sailing through the air, at the last, his only purpose in life to tackle the man and take him down to the deck before he could destroy them all.

Victor felt a moment of elation, then. The Masadan had been as shocked as any, by Thandi's sudden and unexpected assault. Victor could see the determination beginning to congeal in the man's face, as realization replaced surprise. But even a Masadan does not commit suicide without a moment's hesitation—and he no longer had that moment. Victor would reach him in time, and no matter how he struggled, Victor was quite sure he could overpower the man. Certainly with the force of his lunge to give him the edge.

And so he did. But no overpowering was needed. By the time he brought the Masadan out of his seat and onto the deck, he'd tackled a corpse. In the final split-second, he saw a snarling fanatic face disappear in an explosion of blood, brains, and very tiny splinters of bone. Yet another three-round burst, he realized, then grimaced as he drove headfirst into the expanding cloud of gore which had been a man's face. And then, as he sprawled onto the floor atop the dead man, Victor was mostly just puzzled. How had Thandi managed that—without, again, putting a scratch on him?
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"Idiot," she muttered, hauling him to his feet by the scruff of the neck. "Biggest damn problem I had was trying not to kill you. Worse than the Amazons."

saber964 wrote:Hear is a candidate for abject stupidity. The 4-5 individuals who tried to kill Honor at Regiano's.