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I would ask that when you reply to someone, click outside of the darker grey box so that you don't type inside the quote box itself. It makes it hard to see where your reply starts.



Now, for the telescoping blades. I would like to point you this picture, which clearly shows Pyrrha's blade as a separate mechanism to them barrel those two golden parts which resemble crossbow arms are actually the blade itself - the barrel doesn't move, but the blade moves around it, flipping so that the sharp edge is facing inwards when in ranged mode. This is why Pyrrha's telescoping blade doesn't interfere with her barrel - they are separate pieces.

And Raven's swords...don't even have a barrel in them, because they are literally made of dust entirely. Or so it has been implied. So they kind of don't apply to your weapon.

As a pair of single edged swords that telescope down to tonfa length, it would possibly work. The combining function of the swords to become a double edged sword, even if they don't telescope out to greatsword size is fine too, but that kind of negates your ability to have a barrel.

The problem with the combined form is the shape of the guard - because both swords have full knuckle guards, when they combine they would give him a guard over the thumb. The reason why this doesn't work is because of the direction the blade itself is facing - it's sharp edge is directly in line with the guard. With part of the guard resting over his thumb, it means he cannot effectively line the blade up with his arm, which means when he swings it, the sharp edge will be on an odd angle, and therefore have a higher chance of bouncing off or hititng the enemy with the flat side of the blade. Plus, in the event of a disarm, his thuumb would get caught in the guard itself, resulting in a broken thumb.

The second video Phantom shared explains all this will visual aids.

As for the blades moving up and down the handle itself when in tonfa mode - it would interfere with the magazine, as you wrote that the magazine pops out to create a better gripping function. This means the handle no longer has a flat surface for the blad to traverse, and it would get jammed. Far simpler to just have the blade stay in place, but still turn on that ninety degree angle.

Is the barrel inside the blade itself? If so, they no longer count as pistols because the force required behind the bullet to get it to traverse the entire length of the blade would be much more than a pistol can generate. Also, see my note an=bout telescoping blades and interior barrels.

If it is on the outside, however, that means the blades can't combine into a single double edged blade, because the barrels would be between the blades. It would instead be a twin bladed sword, sort of like the energy sowrd from Halo with barrels in between.

The problem with the magazine is not so much that the magazine is inside the handle/hilt, like Blakes, but rather that you have it extending to add extra grip strength. This means you have actually moved the bullets, which means they have to have really fancy technology to make it fire them. It also means that any damage to the hilt itself has a chance of damaging the loading mechanism inside the magazine, as it is exposed. (Also, a hilt IS the handle of a sword. They are the same thing in this context.)

Anything I have missed?