Thread:ACWeapons/@comment-24534644-20160524033732/@comment-24534644-20160524193419

For the bow, the very tip of the spead remaind where it is, right in front of the perpendicular handle. Think of that part of the weapon sort of like a katar, except with arrow limbs above and below it.

The two "wings" of the spearhead, however, are the parts that fold around to create the arrow limbs. The longer outer section of each wing fold forward to make the main part of each limb, the parts closest the the handle. The inner, smaller sections create the "parallel" segments at the end of each limb, and they are each connected to the main segments via small rotating wheel-shaped joints. This allows the upper limbs to bend further to accomodate longer pulls of the bowstring, just as a compound bow does. As for the bowstring itself, it's internally connected between the tips of each limbs (or rather, the tips of each inner wing segment). Internal mechanisms have it so that the bowstring only appears when the weapon is in Bow form, and it is stored withing the central limb (the shaft) in a manner similar to how a spool of cable or measuring tape would be stored withing their respective contraptions (visualize how such cable or measuring tape can be pulled out, but then immediately retracts within its storage the moment pull pressure it released from it. This is how the bowstring of the weapon stays inside, and only comes out when the connected limbs extend out into Bow shape).