>Besides, the point of a Rose Duel is in the challenge, not the 'I'll
>turn invisible and bust his rose' sort of instant win...that would
>alienate people and no one would LEARN anything which is the whole
>point of the Rose Duels. Kait kicking Utena's butt was for ulterior
>motives, and other than that, and her trial, she usually didn't use
>the invisibility trick, did she? Kait would probably win against Kurt
>anyway but it would be interesting and would cover a lot of ground
>(and walls and ceiling). An entertaining fight would be Kurt
>and Sky or Kurt and Liza with lots of flourishes and much
>Errol-Flynnery abounding, and probably in the case of Liza and Kurt
>much shameless flirting, as they both do that very well indeed.

two good points... One that, in fact, the duel between Utena and Kate on the rooftop was also a special case. It was kinda a case of 'you know, we've been sparing for ages, but we've never really gone all out' combined with a bit of friendly rivalry (ala Kate and Juri's 'I yeild to your Kung-fu bit back at the bowling alley)

As to the second... It is well known that Kurt did grow up in and around a circus (at least in the backstory that I remember for him) so I find it totaly believable that he was capable of accuratly wielding a sword in each hand. (Dunno what the style is called when their both the same length, but one short and one long is called Florentine style) The one in the tail, I'd expect was more for area denial rather than serious attack. Still, I hope the SoS muse prompts Gryph to include a duel between Kurt and Liza sometime in the future... I agree that it would be a killer scene, and a lot of fun to read!