Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-5047068-20140615190405/@comment-26259025-20150429105514

Well, she's 5"3 and really very slender. She is not the brute force type. Once you get a hold of her (which, is quite difficult I'd imagine) there's very little she can do against you. I'd be willing to bet Ruby, Blake, and definitely Yang would all beat her in some kind of strength contest, like arm wrestling. Yang would probably inadvertedly break her arm.

But, if someone manages to grapple your rapier...you shouldn't be wielding a rapier. If you don't have the deftness, nor reflexes to move the weapon away and cut off their fingers in the process, you aren't suited to fighting with a weapon like a rapier/foil.

Side note; Slashing with rapiers was quite common. Because they were thin, and thus more flexible than other blades, you created a whip-like effect that would create very light cuts (which would sting like a bitch). Google image "Dueling scars", which were cuts a superior duelist would give an opponent, to forever remind him he lost the duel. Was quite common in 15th century France, when nobles fought one another. All this said, we've got to actually remember for most of their history, rapiers were paired with a main gauche, which was actually 50% of the reason they were viable weapons.