Imagine if it was something stupid like "dude, a fisherman came out of fucking nowhere and offers you fish" "mmm fuck that it's poisoned, slap him with it or rub it onto his face or something" "now he smells like fish and jokes about crabs" "pinch his ass with the crab and tell him to fuck off".
Like, if they were actually ripping off your face with fish scales, would you then go "oh fuck good thing they forgot the crab lmao". That just screams masochistic energy. More likely a fisherman went "holy fuck you would not believe, who I just met" "who?" "The fucking emperor dude" "whaaat what did he do" "slap me with my fish" "whaaat that's so random" "yeah and then he pinched me with my crab and told me to fuck off"
Edit: also, was the historian there to witness it? Dude just got his walking diary to see how he fish-face-f'd a random fisherman? Then didn't go "computer, erase the last log"?
Yeah it's a dick measuring contest. All the time.