Shamshir

Key Character Milestones

• A brilliant Pirate
• Always armed with a Pistol and Saber
• Originally from Seasonings - See Prolouge
• Hosts the Dueling Final Exam for all Lockstitch Graduates,
  as seen in S1G1: My Fleet Academia
  Dueling Final Exam Speech
  All right, welcome to your final day, The Big Exam at the end of the year, guppies. That's right when I look around and all I see are guppies! Are guppies even salt water fish? You know what that's not important. What’s important is that today is the day you prove yourselves! Prove that you have the mettle to sail on the High Seas, just like me and my crew used to do, we used to tear– does… any.. does anyone know that bird?
  
  Well, back on my ship, the Empty Noose, we were the Terror of the Many Oceans! We’d constantly wreak havoc on all of the naval vessels! None could stand in our path!!
  
  Now today for the class, you know what it is you have to do. Complete the obstacle course, go through the gauntlet, grab any weapon of your choice and get to the floating pad for a final duel.
  
  Now keep in mind you guys got weapons, all right, you're gonna be grabbing a weapon that's all well and good. Use the weapon and for the love of all things magic, put on a good show, but don't kill each other, that kind of defeats the purpose. Now a Pistol and a Saber.. Can anyone tell me how you use the Saber? What's the first thing you do when you square off?
  
  

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  You put the pokey stabby's part in the other person?
  Shamshir: WRONG!
  Joaquin: Most important is your stance your fighting stance.
  Shamshir: It's.. It's like I haven't taught you.. It's like you haven't been paying attention all year…
  You shoot the bastard!

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  Anyway, get aboard the floating pad, do the duel, and like I said, make it look flashy because let's face it, of any particular skill that is essential to a pirate's repertoire - It’s looking good while they’re doing stuff, am I right? yeeeeah
  
  I was under the impression that we were supposed to be helping other people not committing piracy do you know what a sun fish is yes they're big and they're dumb and that's what i feel like i'm talking to right now a big dumb sunfish
  
  Listen to me, I’m the teacher.
  I've been through this before, okay. When I had my big battle back in my world, we were sailing around on an entire castle that was basically an island, we were laying like some hellfire on it. It was bombarding day in day out, and I think I was riding on some kind of slime creature? I don't know, it was crazy, it was war, no time to think about it. But what we are going to think about right now is this final exam.
  
  Will you prove yourself today?
  
  
  
  
The Rest of the Dueling Final Exam Speech
now everyone should remember even when you get by this if you get by this you're gonna be facing a ton of dangers on the ocean now she's a cruel mistress you've heard me say a million times but it's not just the sudden tempest or freak accidents that occur out that can occur out there it's not the deadly beasts that lurk in the murky depths no even the most subtle ounce of pride can get you killed so remember pride is no never mind pride's like your best friend what am i talking about let me give you an example okay now i knew a guy he used to work on my vessel the empty noose okay this guy i think we maybe had a cutting crew of around i'd give or take 40 people and this guy got it in his head this guy got it in his head that he got some treasure he knows where a treasure is you know word word around the town was there's a a secret stash in this one section of the ocean now what happens is we go over there right and he thinks he's clever like a lot of you okay i'm looking around and you just you all remind me of him now he thought it was real clever he thought hey that treasure it's pretty far down but you know what we could probably uh you know do some magic because magic was at our disposal in my world so what happened is he cast a spell on himself to be able to breathe underwater pretty pretty pretty smart right i mean seems like the logical thing anybody else would do so we throw him overboard and he decides that now he's just going to kind of swim down there but we say hey man we might want to tie this rope around you just in case you know we need to get you up quickly and he said no he's got the spell but you know we we talked him into it we coerced him so he goes over the side he goes down there well this guy was so clever that he didn't even realize the guy who sold him the spell the magic spell that he used that magic spell was only temporary and this guy was down on the sea floor for about 20 minutes before we can see him down there start to flounder and we realized uh oh something's going wrong so we decide what are we gonna do his spell is probably running out i don't know we gotta get him up quickly well it turns out his spell did run out we pulled him up as fast as we could as he was holding his breath hey what did i teach you what are you not supposed to do when you're rising quickly from like under the water you're not supposed to hold your breath because the gas expands so this guy comes up around probably 50 meters that's like 160 something feet he comes up in a matter of seconds instantly holding his breath and well let's just say uh there was a lot of pink frothy uh mess all over the deck that day and i don't recommend going through that and that is why you have me as your teacher.

The sun slowly starts to rise in the background.
Shamshir began introducing the Exam at the break of dawn..
And now it is noon and you’re going to be late for your next test.