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Someone who'd rather lose with style than win by hiding behind a wall.
means A person who fights (or is ready to fight) a formal one-on-one combat to settle a point of honor.
from From French duelliste, from duel, traced back to Latin duellum — an old, poetic form of bellum, 'war.' Latin writers liked duellum partly because folk imagination linked it to duo, 'two,' which fit perfectly with two men fighting alone — a happy coincidence of sound and sense that helped the word stick and eventually narrow from 'war' to 'a war between exactly two people.'
- game role
- built for aggression and first contact
- risk profile
- high kill count, higher death count
- historical root
- once settled insults with swords at dawn
- team reliance
- needs support or dies loudly, repeatedly