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King Knight, the knight adorned with gold armor, a gold crown, and red fluffy cape ruling over Pridemoor Keep.

Propeller Knight, the French fencer with a helmet I can’t really figure out how it actually works, commanding his Flying Machine. 

Both knights are considered by the fandom as fancy and high in social status, but who actually outfancies the other? Well, King Knight isn’t true royalty to begin with, but the fandom appears to overlook one thing that could actually separate the two in terms of social status.

I’m not going to rehash the fact that King Knight is not true royalty, dammit. I’m going to give you some Tips For The Aspiring Social Climber. There is one detail that people are not aware of.

(Image credit: Shovel Knight wikia, Lessthan1337) 

This is the Battle Royale. Anyway, the thing I wanted to talk about was what Propeller Knight and King Knight were doing.

King Knight is periodically lifting his goblet to sip his drink. 

Propeller Knight is swishing his wine (well, the French are always associated with wine, and it looks red…) around. 

What’s with this? 

Propeller Knight is swishing his wine. 

Wine tastes BETTER when it has contact with air, although it has to be consumed immediately. Wine, however, is best served cool, and Propeller has his palm under it. However, I believe that it is wine due to recurring examples of using misconception to actually point to something (Shield Knight’s helmet is similar to Valkyrie helms and since Valkyries are Norse aka Vikings, look at our shovelers being the prime example). 

And in medieval times, wine was hard to acquire, especially good wine. The French in particular developed winemaking, they have been doing it for centuries. So, if it’s hard to acquire, you need money. 

One more thing to note that you won’t really know how to make wine taste better by swishing and slurping (yes, you slurp it in order to taste its fullness) unless you are a rich person for a long time. Until now. You just sip the wine. You don’t swish it. The steps are see, swish, sip, slurp, and then swallow or spit. 

It’s likely King Knight only had a taste of wine when he got to that throne and wrapped himself in that floofy cape blanket I actually want for myself. Propeller Knight, on the other hand, seems to have been born with the stuff.