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Here's that weapon I was working on.

Name: Thunder Pledge

- Wielder: Medi Holdback

- Maker/Smith: Nolan Holdback (Her father)

- Classification: Lever-action Gunblade and shield (Lags)

- Weapon Derivation: (Indian Double-edge straight sword), Gunblade, and Shield, Junkyard Dog MK lll (Sol Badguy's weapon)

- Form 1 Design: The weapon takes the form of modified Khanada with the strengthening plate turned into a barrel to fire dust, while the finger guard has been converted into a lever-action trigger. The pummel can be moved to load in ammo.

- Form 1 Aesthetics: The blade is made from Damascus steel which has been acid etched to reveal a wave pattern. The barrel has a black finish applied while the handle has been wrapped in several layers of leather in varying shades of green and purple.

The shield is normally a metal gauntlet on Medi's right hand and turns into a buckler shield when opened.

- Dust Usage: Gravity dust (main one), Electricity, fire, and hard-light

- Ammunition: The weapon has two different vials, the normal vials which are used like Weiss and Burner Vials.

Burner vials are vials filled with either mixed or powered up dust and the primer needs to be bitten down on before being loaded due to the damage they can do to the barrel.

- Usage: Medi uses a guarding style at the beginning of a fight then switching to hit and run tactic after acquiring static electricity from her semblance. Medi often uses a reverse grip when using Thunder Pledge, no matter if she has her shield out or not, only flipping to a normal grip when fighting with her team.

When using fighting Medi prefers to smash more than slice with her weapon and gravity dust helps with that task. She uses other dust depending on the fight and only uses her Burner Vials when she's fighting a powerful enemy.

- Planned/Possible Upgrades: Making Burner Vials safer and lessening the drawbacks.

- Notes: The weapon name comes from how Medi's semblance works and how she redirects lighting and thunder to herself.

Burner Vials were thought up after seeing Sol's entrance into battle and Junkyard dog being loaded.