THE HUNGRY KNIGHT
I never thought I would have succeeded in a
feudal world, or in the past in general. In what many of us now see
as the GAME OF THRONES era, success would take a great deal to
achieve. I love a good sword fight as much as the next person, but I
really lack ambition. I couldn't murder a stranger, or poison my
brother, or start a war because someone dishonored me. Hell, I can't
bring myself to believe in honor. I totally have the wrong mentality
for such a world, and, in all likelihood end up plowing the fields,
or maybe being one of those guys that sat along the side of the road
waiting to die of the plague.
That's what I've always thought.
Recently though, something occurred to me. I have this incredible
appetite. It's a little nuts. I can normally eat myself into
bursting pain four or five times a day and still require a full night
of beer and quesadillas to be content. I don't know why, it's just
the way I am. This unhealthy metabolism might have led me to great
things in a feudal system.
See, back then, it was really easy to
starve. This might seem obvious, but it's really not much of a factor
in my world. I've been completely poor, been homeless, and still
always managed to find food (and normally booze). Normally you can
just look at the ground until you find change for a fast food
sandwich. There's enough food in your average dumpster to feed anyone
and it's normally not even gross. So,
food has never been a huge motivator for me. Sure, I've been bummed
on eating shit food. I've had my stomach hurt from lack of food. But
I've never even gone a whole day without eating.
In a
feudal world though, everyone but the rich were generally very close
to starving. Even if were at pretty successful average person you
were probably deficient in a lot of regards, and always in need of
nutrition you couldn't get. Only the top, most successful people were
well fed. I think this might have given me the ambition I lack in a
modern world. I would have been forced to succeed to fill my gut.
That might make me a much more efficient and successful guy.
And So
I present a view at what I might have become in a different time: THE
HUNGRY KNIGHT, SEEKER OF THE ETERNAL BREAKFAST
Just wanted to say that
I did like no research for this. I accidently read a few lines of the
'feudalism' wikipedia, but that's it. So this could all be bullshit,
and everyone in the past ate really well or something. Probably not
though.
