Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20171207232020/@comment-4136655-20180120011713

HookshotHotshot wrote: When you said "Halberd Rifle", I saw it happening one of a few ways. When you mentioned that the hook is the trigger, that means to me that the only ways to hold it that allows you to fire the weapon by pulling that trigger are holding it near the axe head with the axe head up or holding it with the axe head down. Based on the length distribution of the handle (with most of the shaft being, you know, below the axe head) I had assumed that the bottom of the handle was the gun barrel, giving you a roughly 5 foot gun barrel and meaning the axe head is right in front of your face, which makes it hard to aim down any form of sight. I definitely get what you thought. I guess it's sort of hard to describe what you're actually being able to show it (I'm not a good artist at all). And as many people have mentioned, that may not be too great of a philosophy for a family to have. I'd consider Aura more of a skill that can be worked at and improved. While you might be able to give him a talent for certain skills and he could credit divinity with that talent, saying that Aura is a God-given privilege means he may have a crisis when he sees that a) there's presumably a class in Aura at the preliminary combat school and b) that just about everyone at the upper division school has their Aura unlocked as well. I'll definitely be nixing the parts about Huntsmen/aura/semblances (though I'll probably leave the belief of Grimm as demons/evil spirits alone), and add a core value of working hard to get into God's graces as one of their religious aspects. As well, I'll probably change Angelo's backstory by making his cousin Annetta more of a stone cold bitch toward him and perhaps guilting (read emotionally manipulating) him for years that his work was nothing but copying his grandmother, and he'd never make anything of himself. With being nothing but slothful, Angelo would risk not entering heaven and his soul being stripped of his memories and returned to purgatory.