Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170224140119/@comment-25936766-20170228140232

So, I just woke up, after spending 5:23 hours of my life going to a friend's house, drinking dry some Carta Roja (still didn't get drunk), and remembering the taste of Doritos.

I'll respond to a few bits that interested me here before reaching the current subject. Though I do admit beforehand that I skipped multiple posts. Losing my internet connection before posting this means some more posts could've been done too.

Arkantos95 wrote: The Buster Sword is better because it can be held closer to the body and the blade can be used as a shield, as happened multiple times in the fight.

There's a problem with that sentence: It's wrong terminology in many ways.

1) "Buster Sword" is not an actual kind of sword at all. It's a completely made-up name for FF7's iconic blade. It's not an actual term.

Now, there WERE indeed multiple swords that share the "incredibly large" and "so heavy they can't be realistically wielded" aspects, but none of them were ever called Buster Swords, and not even now they're called such.

2) Qrow's weapon is not a Buster Sword in any way. It's not outstandingly heavy, it's not ridiculously large, it's not even square.

What it is, is a bastard sword, in both the historical and modern definitions:


 * Old: Any sword whose length was between a shortsword and a longsword. Though at times it was also used to refer to any exceptionally-large sword, and in that sense Qrow's weapon isn't one.


 * Modern (19-20th Century): A hand-and-a-half sword. Which in itself, is just a Longsword, which got that name because the balance allowed one to wield it in one hand, even though they were 2H weapons.

At the same time, the term Longsword went on to be used to refer almost-exclusively to the Rapier, specifically Reinassance and Early-Modern fencing rapiers.

Of course, historically Bastard Sword and Longsword have also been used interchangeably.

But overall...Qrow's weapon isn't a Buster Sword. And in fact the use of Buster Sword fails in serious discussion unless one refers to a weapon as unrealistically heavy and unwieldy as the actual Buster Sword.

--- ChishioKurnin Wrote: I think Weiss will get faster at summoning as she gets more practice. Being able to really slowly summon things like the Giant Armor and the Boarbatusk was yet another babystep forward.

Remind me, how long did Winter take to create the 4 little doves?