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If he's a small guy, then you could still potentially do a bow-sword design. Except instead of having the bow split to become two swords, having them merge together to become a single sword. The shape of the bow itself would have to be altered to compensate for this (meaning the limbs would have to be much skinnier than, say, Cinder's bow, since they aren't meant to be individual blades), but it could easily be done. I could imagine a bow/rapier, capitalizing on the fact that both weapons are supposed to be flexible.

As for the battles thing, imagine the entire bow being the blade of the axe. And the handle either shrinking down or changing position to allow it to be used as a bow.