Thread:KNN005/@comment-25266931-20170304160915/@comment-25936766-20170305134814

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Falls under weapons training. Ruby has at least some knowledge on swordmanship in how she had no worries about picking up Penny's sword and wielding it against the Nevermore. That moment proves nothing, actually. She had no weapon at hand, and she sucks at fisticuffs, and she was enraged.

She picked Penny's sword not because she might know some bit of swordsmanship, but because it's a weapon and in her case a blade is far better than nothing. In fact, I doubt she even cared if she didn't know how to use it right.

When it comes to swords, Ruby's most likely still stuck at the Unconscious Incompetency level. She doesn't use swords actively, so she doesn't know that she doesn't know. She has some idea of what to do, but doesn't know how to use one decently.

It's the same as guns and average joes. Guns are everywhere in fiction so everyone has some idea of how to hold them, and that they fire once you pull the trigger. Then they actually try to use one, and they fail anyway, because "some ideas" is not enough to be able to use them competently.