Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24772070-20161204040824

I was just thinking about how much various real-life weapons weigh, and I wondered: Assuming they are made out of real-life materials, and not some stupid stronger-than-steel, lighter-than-cotton, sharper-than-diamond metal... I mean, the Blacksmith mentioned to Jaune in The Next Step his new chestplate would be significantly heavier, right?

Back on track, how much would, say, Crescent Rose weigh? We know how tall most of the characters are, so we should be able to approximate their length and heights. I've estimated that a scythe with a 6-foot handle and a 5-foot blade would certainly weigh in excess of 150 lbs, and that's a very generous estimate for aluminum, a very light metal and a frankly unlikely material to use for such a weapon. Some of these weapons have properties that would necessitate huge amounts of steel or tungsten, like Coco's Gatling gun. 