Talk:Pyrrha Nikos/@comment-24.140.179.53-20130812015036/@comment-4773581-20130824081643

And his other options were...what, exactly? For all we know, this could have been the best he could get. We've heard nothing on how much weapons cost, they're quite obviously pretty hard to make, and we know nothing of his family's social and monetary standing, so it's not hard to imagine that his options were pretty much that or nothing.

Then again, he could just be trying to challenge himself. Sure, killing something with a toothpick is hard, but it's not impossible. And then there's still the fact that it was used in some unknown war a long time ago, meaning it can and will kill a Grim if used properly. Whether he can use it properly is another debate entirely, but the fact that it has the ability to slay Grims, however overshadowed it is by the other characters' more modern weapons, is unquestionable.