Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160319212213/@comment-25396609-20160320065657

i swear casually, when i said weird shit i basically meant weird stuff.

The reason things become standard is because they work.

a mechanical prosthetic limb is standard because it is functional, and even being a standardized system they are not exactly common. we have seen TWO characters with prosthetics out of a fairly respectable cast

and both characters have prosthetics which are totlly different from each-other

Standard does not mean common, or mass produced, it just means it is based on a principle which has been shown to work, whereas having a hollow frame controlled entirely by aura is wasteful, inefficient, just plain silly.

maybe as a first year student, or in combat school when she was trying to be extra special, but by the time you start actually fighting grimm you realize that extra special replacement arm you have is just going to get you killed.

She can have a standard prosthetic and, if she got the connection/control systems installed by someone else, still build the weapon herself, it would still be completely customized and unique to her, but based on time-tested principles instead of frivolous weirdness.

I like having weird or unique weapons, i like going outside the norm, but you have to draw the line between unique and ineffective.