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What can I say, sometimes a girl just gets an irresistible urge to draw two people beating the crap out of each other. I've had this scene in my head for the longest time and have wanted to try capturing it for ages. I'm pretty happy with how this little series of sketches came out.

I'm not sure who started the fight. With Daniel and Edmund, you can never really tell, as they both keep annoying and pushing each other towards the edge until finally one of them snaps. This time it must have been building up for quite some time, though. It takes some heavy insulting to push Edmund so far that he'd actually get physical.

Who would have won if Jacob hadn't stepped in? Daniel, definitely. Even in a rage Edmund is still a bit too gentlemanly for his own good. Daniel fights dirty.

So what does Jacob say to get them to calm down?
I'm still not entirely sure about the background to this scene (my creative method typically involves thinking of something cool or fun to draw and then come up with a setting later) but as I imagined it, the three assassins are currently trapped on a ship with no plan to get out, which could prove very dangerous for them indeed. So Daniel and Edmund's response to the situation is, naturally, to start blaming each other instead of focusing on solving the problem. Jacob can't be having with that sort of thing:

"Now listen to me, you two numbskulls! You can stay here and rip each other apart for all I care, but I intend to get off this ship and so help me, that's just what I'm going to do, even if it means I'll have to kill you both, fashion your intestines into a rope, bind your dead corpses together and float down the river on a crude makeshift raft. It's a hell of a task and all sorts of messy and nasty business, I can tell you. After 1821, I swore to myself, "never again", and I would very much hate to break that promise. So, gentlemen! Are you going to start putting your thick heads together or am I going to have to do it for you?"


Either Jacob has a nightmarish past or a rich imagination.