Gentleman In Distress

[Texguy84]

So, you have some unscrupulous noblewoman who uses her sexual prowess (or, as they say on Firefly, her "Womanly Wiles") to seduce men and women alike and gain power, eventually marrying the King. At this point, either he dies (old age or foul play) or is sent away to fight in a war or something along those lines so the Queen takes over.

The first thing she does is, after failing to seduce the noble Prince (King's son from a previous marriage, the original Queen having died a mysterious death of course), is to lock the Prince away in the tower, visiting him nightly in order to try and bed him, perhaps even sending in her maids (loyal sultry female servants of the new Queen) to work on him a bit with their own various charms.

Enter the hero of the piece, a young beautiful peasant girl who is orphaned at an early age and adopted by a hermit, who turns out to be an old former knight from the Queen's realm, who has been living in self-imposed exile for the last 18 years, and who reveals to the girl that she is in fact the daughter of a great female Knight, and thus is a Knight in her own right (after some training of course).

Long story short, girl trains to be a knight, frees the Gentleman in Distress from the tower, perhaps gets into some hot action with the Queen and her maids on the way, so on so forth and then they all live happily ever after.

Whadya think? :-D

 

[Sean Renaud]

That unless you go in a totally fantasy setting with dragons and magic that a female knight is patently absurd.

 

[BedtimeStories77]

I think it would be a fun fantasy tale.

 

[Texguy84]

That unless you go in a totally fantasy setting with dragons and magic that a female knight is patently absurd.

OK, have you READ my stories? Compared to some of the characters I've got running around, a female knight is hardly absurd.

 

[3113]

OK, have you READ my stories? Compared to some of the characters I've got running around, a female knight is hardly absurd.

I don't think it's absurd--but I think there is a valid point in whether this is a "fantasy" category story or a "satire" category story.

If fantasy, then you need to work on her background--what kind of a fighter is she? Not a "knight" per se because knights were noble folk who had to joust, etc. to win armor and it required a huge amount of upper body strength. And how did an orphaned girl end up being anything more to a hermit than a housekeeper? You see the problem--you give all that background, but it doesn't make sense. So, if fantasy, it should make more sense.

If satire--and this is what this story sounds like--then you can get away with it and you DON'T need all that background for who the evil queen is, or how our female knight got to be a knight.

The Joke is that the prince, not the princess, gets saved by the knight. And it could be a really fun joke. Don't sink it with so much extrenous background. All we need to know about how she became a knight should be able to be said in a sentence: "daddy was determined that his child be a knight and he didn't care that I wasn't a boy..." or "In my land, women are in charge and all knights are female...."--something like that.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I think in satire you are allowed bo be absurd. With that said I agree. As long as the background isn't meant to be examined this should be a really great and kinda funny story.

 

[slipfreak46]

So, you have some unscrupulous noblewoman who uses her sexual prowess (or, as they say on Firefly, her "Womanly Wiles") to seduce men and women alike and gain power, eventually marrying the King. At this point, either he dies (old age or foul play) or is sent away to fight in a war or something along those lines so the Queen takes over.

The first thing she does is, after failing to seduce the noble Prince (King's son from a previous marriage, the original Queen having died a mysterious death of course), is to lock the Prince away in the tower, visiting him nightly in order to try and bed him, perhaps even sending in her maids (loyal sultry female servants of the new Queen) to work on him a bit with their own various charms.

Enter the hero of the piece, a young beautiful peasant girl who is orphaned at an early age and adopted by a hermit, who turns out to be an old former knight from the Queen's realm, who has been living in self-imposed exile for the last 18 years, and who reveals to the girl that she is in fact the daughter of a great female Knight, and thus is a Knight in her own right (after some training of course).

Long story short, girl trains to be a knight, frees the Gentleman in Distress from the tower, perhaps gets into some hot action with the Queen and her maids on the way, so on so forth and then they all live happily ever after.

Whadya think? :-D

Why shouldn't it work. Its simple roll reversal. It worked with "Barb Wire", or did someone not get the Casablanca connection?