[X] A Railgun
But more seriously, Im ambivalent towards the 2 leading options.
But more seriously, Im ambivalent towards the 2 leading options.
Magical Girl Phantom Ascension
- Thread starter SpoopyGhost
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It always starts with a lighthouse.
A girl after my own heart.
You know... I was going to go track down the latest iteration of @open_sketchbook's 5 Across the Heart and pick a weapon from there, but... you're right. Gotta go with the Saturn.
[X] Glaive
... I feel like I'm in a Dive to the Heart walking between the three pedestals. One with the throwing picks, one with a nice one-handed sword (that no one else wants), and one with a Glaive (because Best Woobie).
*Slumps and sighs*
*Slumps and sighs*
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[X] Falx/Dacian sword
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[X] A Staff or Polearm
-[X] A Naginata
-[X] A Naginata
Silently Watches
Professional Stalker
- Location
- Right behind you
...Except a glaive and a naginata are essentially the same thing?
... Not really? Glaives are curved, have no guard at the connecting spot, and generally have a noticeably larger blade.
Alternatively: a naginata is similar to a glaive, but forged from glorious nippon steel
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If we want a nippon steel-forged weapon let's go fully into it and grab ourselves a Katana!Alternatively: a naginata is similar to a glaive, but forged from glorious nippon steel
There are non-curved glaive I think. Meanwhile AFAIK naginata is always curved.
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Also, as far as being glaive having the larger blade, I think that's just the fictional glaives. Or rather, the Guandao, and that's also seem to be more the case for the fictional guandaos rather than the ones used in reality. Checking at glance on google images, I haven't find direct comparison between glaive and naginata but the images of glaives that isn't CGI don't give impression of being larger than naginata.
And talking the specific example in mind, Silence Glaive's. blade is in fact don't look larger than naginata.
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SpoopyGhost
Undead Demi Kuudere Tsundere
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- Your Haunted Attic
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- She/Her
Inserted tally - Voting is locked. 8 for throwing picks, 7 for naginata, 4 for glaive, 3 for sickle, and then a great deal of interesting miscellaneous options.
I may try manually counting them from here on in; I'm really not happy with the generated tally. Basically had to do that here just to double check the numbers; this was an interesting round.
Again, please vote for/create the option you personally want to see succeed, even if it doesn't seem likely to.
I may try manually counting them from here on in; I'm really not happy with the generated tally. Basically had to do that here just to double check the numbers; this was an interesting round.
Again, please vote for/create the option you personally want to see succeed, even if it doesn't seem likely to.
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- Head in the clouds
[X] A Staff or Polearm
-[X] A War Scythe
But truthfully - could someone tell me what the difference between a glaive, war scythe and naginata is besides the names? Personally I like the war scythe due to the death -> scythe connection but looking at the pictures they all look very similar.
-[X] A War Scythe
But truthfully - could someone tell me what the difference between a glaive, war scythe and naginata is besides the names? Personally I like the war scythe due to the death -> scythe connection but looking at the pictures they all look very similar.
ColdGoldLazarus
Contrary Quester, Spreadsheet Queen, Pink Flamingo
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- She/Her
That's actually a good point. As happy as I am that the chained throwing picks won, the naginata and glaive are functionally similar enough you could probably merge the votes for them together, if you wanted.
SpoopyGhost
Undead Demi Kuudere Tsundere
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- She/Her
This creates something of a dilemma. I combined the votes for 'Chained Throwing Picks' and 'Chained Throwing Picks/Kusarigama' on the basis that they seemed to functionally be describing the same thing, but under that logic I suppose it isn't too much of a stretch to say 'Naginata' and 'Glaive' are similar enough to warrant similar treatment, despite being technically more separate terms. Either option is valid.
A revote might be in order, if no better solution can be found.
A revote might be in order, if no better solution can be found.
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It always starts with a lighthouse.
Glaive and naginata are fairly similar, to be honest (most of us voting for the former were doing so because of the association with Sailor Saturn, who is also associated with the color purple). I think most of the differences come down to construction and historical usage styles, since one came from Europe (and like most European polearms, saw a lot of hybridization with other polearms) and the other from Japan. The war scythe, on the other hand, has the edge on the concave side of the blade, which would encourage a different style of fighting.
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So a super mode or alternative form got ya.
(Though a long running joke of people mistaking our weapon for a scythe could work too...) Outside of weapon selection: can we point out to our recruiter how their words leave implications to the imagination.
Such as not normal circumstances could easily file under running someone over as well as offering magical girl hood to a ghost.
Seeing as there isn't other ghosts this could look odd, especially since the car that killed you came out of nowhere. Also just pointing out how the offering anything without an apparent reason looks suspicious.
I just have the image of my head that we get to be the "old" magical girl without a civilian life to any living teammates. And the slightly naive recruiter and the practical Veteran is an old dynamic for a reason.
Body guarding and getting to threats without interruption is a lot easier for us.
Just in general I hope that we're the only ghost MG at least for awhile as a contrast with living MGs would be interesting. Also just time for the reality of unseen unheard ghost to sink in and ne played with by us.
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- Ural, Russia, Earth
A possible solution - give us a hybrid of Naginata/Glaive and Chained Throwing Picks/Kusarigama.
A staff with a blade connected to its end with retractable chain?
A polearm that can transform into chained thingie, Kyoko Sakura style?
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So here's another question - what do we look like outside of costume?
Because if we were killed by the impact of the car without any memory whatsoever - we never regained consciousness after the impact. If we survived for a time, we may have head scars/shaved portions from an operation on our head, or our neck may be broken if that's what killed us.
I'm assuming we are dressed in our funeral clothes, though if we were dressed in the last outfit we wore before the car ran us over there's a likelihood of blood for obvious reasons.
Because if we were killed by the impact of the car without any memory whatsoever - we never regained consciousness after the impact. If we survived for a time, we may have head scars/shaved portions from an operation on our head, or our neck may be broken if that's what killed us.
I'm assuming we are dressed in our funeral clothes, though if we were dressed in the last outfit we wore before the car ran us over there's a likelihood of blood for obvious reasons.
It would work as a compromise to me.A possible solution - give us a hybrid of Naginata/Glaive and Chained Throwing Picks/Kusarigama.
A staff with a blade connected to its end with retractable chain?
A polearm that can transform into chained thingie, Kyoko Sakura style?
Also, I have no clue where the Chained Picks/Kusarigama vote came from. They aren't even close to actually being the same thing, other than having a chain that you can use to tie up others. Even then, that's not really the focus of the former while the latter kind of uses it as a basic tenant of how it works as a weapon at all.
ColdGoldLazarus
Contrary Quester, Spreadsheet Queen, Pink Flamingo
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I was the one who added that. I was thinking ice picks, then you said chained picks, and from there my mind went Ice Picks + Chains = basically Kusirigama. But maybe there was a misunderstanding; do you have a picture or something of what you had in mind?
A throwing pick is basically just weaponized nail. As I said when I posted the vote basically: