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In the meantime, I have another concept I'm worried flies a tad close to canon, so I want to double check.

I was thinking about how to beef up a hammer in a way that was rather new. Rocket and jet propulsion have been done a fair bit. Heck, I've got half a dozen super sledges lying around in a box somewhere. Spikes and blades are practical, but have precedent. Electrical boosts would be so unoriginal in this day and age it might circle back to funny.

For RWBY (related) hammers specifically, I have seen (takes a breath) gatling guns, heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, PDW's, rifles/shotguns, and those last two were mine. Then while I was doing yard, it hit me, don't change the hammer so much as what it hits.

What if you plant an explosive bolt or some kind of shaped charge, and wack it to activate it. Otherwise use the hammer to drive the payload into place and trigger it remotely. Am I giving canon enough clearance?

I was thinking this would be good for either a vampire hunter or John Henry inspired character.