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Can I get some feedback or whatever on my latest instrument weapon? SpiritedDreaming wrote:

Just another instrument weapon, since I'm on a tangent at the moment.

Name: Corymbus

Classification: Harmonic Defensive Electric Viola (HDEV)

Weapon Derivation: Electric Viola, Hittite Shield, Talhoffer’s depictions of bucklers in his instruction manuals for fencing

Form 1 Design: Traditionally shaped electric 5 string viola. Viola bow with a rapier grip, spool housing hidden inside protective guard. Viola body is 41cm long, and bow is 85cm long including grip. Amp and speakers built into the viola body, near the chin rest.

Form 1 Aesthetics: Front of violin has a dark grey pleather layer adhered to it, with a pale blue damask patterned after the user’s emblem and surrounded by ivy vines and leaves. The back and sides are silver steel. Black fingerboard, tail, and chin rest. Bow is solid black with silver steel rapier guard patterned like ivy leaves.

Form 2: Fingerboard folds forward at body, becoming buckler handle. Back of viola telescopes out to become wider and pointier at top and bottom. Overall length of 50cm. Bow spine retracts to reveal a rapier blade, with the bow strings being pulled back into a spool just beside the handle.

Form 2 Aesthetics: Blade and newly revealed sections of the shield are silver steel. Usage: Defensive based fencing, focused around parrying with the shield and thrusting at weak points and openings with the rapier.

Notes: Corymbus is the name of a Rustic Greek God, who was god of the fruit of the ivy plant specifically. The fruit of this ivy is the music it creates. An ancient Hittite shield was very similar in shape to Nr 8 of this picture.