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Seenalready wrote: Here's that weapon I was working on. By the way what do you guys use to create a model for your weapons? Oh yeah, I should mention that I'm not using the color-naming rule for characters, because I suck at making names.

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. Looking back at guilty gear, there is no way that Sol's weapon would be even close to being considered an actual sword both in appearance and usage. It is shaped in such a way that it is best suited for cleaving, over precision thrusting and slashing. Making the weapon a Khanda would be counter to both your OC's fighting style and inspiration.

The main problem with using a sword in a reverse grip is that you lose your effectiveness when cutting or thrusting because you are using the smaller muscles in your back, rather than the ones typically used when holding a knife in the reverse grip or a sword normally.

Furthermore, the entire idea of using a reverse grip defensively is inefficient. One of the most important limitations of a sword and shield fighting style is the lack of range and power especiallty compared to polearms due to losing the ability to reduce your target by turning sideways. You lose range and power even more of with the reverse grip, both of which cannot be completely negated by the buckler's ability to deflect weak hits and distract.

The buckler also loses its ability to bind enemy weapons- binding enemy weapons requires the help of another weapon besides the buckler. This cannot be done with the reverse grip sword because it lacks both range and agility.