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- From: bhw@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Barbara H. Webb)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Fighting in crown: a thought
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.144713.28482@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:47:13 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.114654.20859@aifh.ed.ac.uk> <1992Dec21.193841.20363@epas.toronto.edu>
- Reply-To: bhw@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Barbara H. Webb)
- Organization: Dept AI, Edinburgh University, Scotland
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Dec21.193841.20363@epas.toronto.edu> nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca
- (Aryk Nusbacher) writes:
-
- >Why on earth would you want to open the possibility of becoming SCA
- >royalty to non-fighting couples?
-
- I assume that's a rhetorical question?
-
- I said, if I entered Crown tournament
- >>it would be as Padraigh fighting to put Caitlin and her consort on the throne.
- >
- >You could look at it that way. More to the point, it's YOU, fighting
- >to put YOUR consort and YOURSELF on the throne. Whether you call
- >yourself Patrick or Caitlin or Tiresias.
-
- Well, no, not really. Barbara Webb, AI research student, has no
- particular wish to be on the throne. I realise that this is getting into
- tricky questions of "what's in a persona?" and I wouldn't presume to
- tell anyone else that they should have one (or more), but Padraigh and
- Caitlin are different people as far as the `atmosphere' of an SCA event
- is concerned. It's not just a name change. In the unlikely event of my
- winning, I would want the ceremony to recognise the distinction.
-
- >SCA rules don't bind persona. You can win as
- >Padraig, be crowned as Padraig, change your name to Barbara when you
- >host Crown Tournament, then to Olav in time for Christmas.
-
- Yes, I realise that it's unlikely to actually be a problem given that
- the rules don't make reference to persona. Perhaps my question was more
- along the lines of "would you mind seeing the situation handled this
- way" (if you like, pretending that Padraigh was fighting as champion for
- Caitlin and consort) and if not, "would you mind someone fighting as
- champion for someone else and consort?"
-
- Caitlin de Courcy
-