Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24573226-20161003151422/@comment-70.195.135.139-20161006144517

Does the tip of the scythes look sharp? You'd be surprised how dull some swords were in the middle ages. The force behind the impact can actualy be a more necessary factor the how sharp the edge of a weapon is.

Let's use a modern example hand axes for chopponig wood. let's say you have to axes one that's dull but has some weight to it, and a very light weight sharp one. The average person would stand over the log raise the axe up high and then bring it down on the log. The light weight axe would cut but wouldn't get to far into the wood while the heavy but dulled axe would go deeper, in some cases splitting the wood in half with one go (I ocasionaly helped my dad chopped rotten wood around our property, so I can personaly attest that this holds true). This is because an object's mass factors into momentum and force. The heaveir axe might have a dull edge but it's still generator more force that is concentrated on the edge of the axe due to the shape of the ace head.

To make a long explanation short. If you hit something fast and hard enough with a sturdy material, the force of the impact alone can cut through(or rather sheee) things even without a sharpened edge. It's actualy the same reason why steel wires on suspension bridges are so dangerous if they snap, and whip around.

So as long a Ruby is swinging fast and hard enough, and the tip of crescent rose penetrates the grim to give her weapon an entry point to focus it's momentum and force into the grim. It completely possibly for Crrscent Rose to cleave through the Grim, the corpse would be lacking a clean cut though in this situation.

-Defcon Deceiver