Chapter 339: Scripted

CREATORS' THOUGHTS

Insignia

TL’S MUSINGS:

Yo guys, I was thinking about something. Hey, take a look at the Huskar’s weapon again: “ ...most polearm weapons lacked as both its tip and its end were weaponized with blades.”

What’s stopping medieval weaponsmiths from making a weapon like this in the real world? Surely it’s because of something else being compensated, but what would those factors be?

Anyone of you who’s pretty learned in weaponry and such? Perhaps you guys can answer this— I genuinely wanna know, haha. My inner Scholar is tickling! My guess is that, well, maybe it limits the speed of the polearm, and limits the space for the wielder’s hands to grip during a battle, which decreases the range the weapon could reach as well as the range the fulcrum can be. I would imagine that polearms triumphed in being more far-reaching, more comprehensive in offensive and defensive capabilities, and providing the means to alter the wielder’s might (by moving the fulcrum farther or closer to the tip). So, well, would the real-life compensation of placing a weapon at the two ends of the shaft in a pole weapon be counterintuitive?

I do know that quite a few weapons also featured a weaponized end too, usually in the form of a spike for thrusting attacks… such as a poleax! But it’s still not an actually-protruding blade like Huskar’s makeshift weapon… So why is that?

… Also, damn, I can’t. Pretending to be the savior by writing in your Black Meatball ego and the Divine Warriors as the monsters, letting them loose to kill and then turn back to save them using a different persona? Man, this reminded me of Season Four Black Mirror’s first episode (“the USS Callister”) a little. Also reminded me of what Syndrome did in the first Incredibles movie, man.

I wonder if this would come and bite him back in the arse though… Maybe one of the three High Reverends would say something like “You were acting! Acting!” like Takeichi did to Youzou in Osamu Dazai’s “No Longer Human”? Hee hee.