By the nature of the setting this is also a conversation meant to sway others. I was pointing out why I do not find 'knight' persuasive for the benefit of third parties.
I am going to say this as politely as I can, given that I do not believe you to be arguing in bad faith, but this has been a recurring thing for the past few months -- every time someone brings up that they like the Armor of von Tarnus because they think being a wizard knight is cool, you have quote-replied them to say that Mathilde isn't a knight. Not that you don't think that being a knight is as cool as other things, not that you think it's a less interesting aspect of her character and you would prefer to emphasize one of Mathilde's many other hats, not even that there's some ambiguity involved: that
as a question of fact, Mathilde isn't a knight. You have done this with me, you've done this with Derpmind and Deathbybunnies just now, you've done this with other people I am not going to tag because they're not currently involved in this conversation. On the face of it, this is a hard row to hoe, because Mathilde is
literally a knight, a fact which you acknowledge and therefore say we should consider the thematic and creative elements in play, which is all very well and good except that at this point we're in the fundamentally semantic and subjective territory of "how close to the central examples of knighthood do you have to be to be a 'real' knight" and "what are the themes of knighthood" and "what are
Mathilde's most important themes and attributes, anyway" and "wouldn't it kick ass if we pronounced knight more like how it is spelled, a /knɪxt/ sounds dope as fuck and also like onomatopoeia for sheathing a sword a la Wolverine's /snɪkt/."
That wandered away from me for a bit there. I blame the lack of sleep. My point is that, one, this is a weird thing to be idiosyncratically hung up on given the level of subjectivity involved, and two that I think it makes what has been repeatedly acknowledged in the last oh god
fifteen pages since the discussion lit up as a stressful vote where every single one of the frontrunners has had people expressing strongly how much they don't want it
more stressful. Ratcheting down the tension in here isn't going to come from jumping on anyone who expresses their appreciation for a specific aspect of the thing they're supporting, it's going to come from a greater willingness to embrace the positive aspects of even the things you don't like in case they win.
Or possibly from angels descending on high to give everyone ice cream and soothing neck rubs, but I'm holding out for the positive attitudes, personally.