Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170511131216/@comment-25936766-20170605045619

PisceanWaterbender wrote:

To your credit though, I would also refer to Ilia's weapon as a sword-whip, even though it's only considered a whip, here, so I understand what you're saying. "Sword-whip" is.......closer to what it is, but not quite.

It's a mixture of things. It shocks, it can cut metal, it can poke abs, it's a whip, the "blade" is made of energy (Lightning Dust) apparently (IIRC), and looks like some weird drill thing when not activated.

IMO, the closest approximation I can think of is "Laserwhip". Similar to the "Lightsaber-whips" in Star Wars's EU. Which technically would still be "Swordwhips" in the same sense Lightsabers are Swords, but still.