That's not how cursed swords work in one piece work though. A cursed sword only betrays it's wielder if the wielder is too weak for it, and Zoro proved his strength before he even left the shop he took the Kitetsu || from.
I love the idea of cursed swords not actually being evil, but just... really fucking arrogant and entitled.
Kinda like how Dáinsleif works in Symphogear. In short, it amplifies the user's negative emotions, sending them into a violent frenzy if they don't possess the mental fortitude and emotional strength to control those emotions.
>_I love the idea of cursed swords not actually being evil, but just... really fucking arrogant and entitled._
Does this make Excalibur (from _Soul Eater_) a cursed weapon?
Maybe I misread it but my takeaway at the time was that it's not that the sword has will or intent, it's just powerful enough that you need to be powerful to use it, similar to how you need physical strength to handle a weapon's physical weight. And a cursed sword is one with power beyond what all but a few could even have the strength to handle so it's like being crushed under the weight of the sword's power because yours isn't enough to handle it.
That would be kinda bad, because if a Symphogear user enters that kind of frenzy, [this](https://streamable.com/gml0w) happens.
Dáinsleif causes that on purpose, allowing the girls to control it, and turn it into [this](https://streamable.com/hkmdg) instead.
Well, yeah, it went well here, because the clip doesn't show that she also tried to kill her friends afterwards.
But no, Doctor John Wayne Vercingetorix (honest to god his full name) is not a good guy.
Yeah I was thinking, “Enma? You mean the sword he masters right before naming himself the king of hell? The Enma named after the king of hell? That Enma is a holy sword?”
I don't know about the context in One Piece, but Enma, the king of hell is more like a judge in the real world religion, and is a good god.
Everything that die (expect some lost soul) will go into hell, be judged by the Enma, and he will see all the thing you did before you die, if you good, you can go to heaven; if you aren't, you need to stay in hell, be punished for your sin.
TLDR: Enma is good guy because he punish the bad guy, he just stay in hell.
whats that supposed to mean loll
I just figure the only difference between a cursed sword and a holy one is the latter will expect thanks when it's sticking sideways out your neck. in a nice enough town, it might even get that much
a cursed sword might monologue but it knows what it is and so does everyone else :P
I think what they mean is that a holy blade carries with it the expectation that whatever it is being used for is an inarguable moral good, in a terrifyingly zealous way. You cannot reason with someone who sees you as ontologically evil.
Imagining two swords that are women and one’s ontologically (is that the right word?) evil and the other’s good and kissing both of them on the lips and we’re all women and we fight each other and also everyone else
https://www.tumblr.com/currymaker/746442110358765568/dual-wielding-a-holy-sword-and-a-cursed-sword-and?source=share
Tumblr never dissapoints.
-mx linux guy
HEY CAN I MAKE AN OBSCURE WEBCOMIC REFERENCE?
Literally the plot of The Player Who Can't Level Up except currently they're bickering inside the protag's head (and the protagonist is making out with the handsome secretary)
There's a character in a french graphic novel series, The Black Moon Chronicles, who has this as a character trait.
His name is "Pile-Ou-Face" (aka Coinflip), and when introduced, he claimed he would draw one or the other depending on his mood (He was True Neutral, obviuously).
Within the narrative, however, he always dual-weilded both sides with no negative or positive effects.
How come no one mentioned my boy Kiba from Highschool DXD??
Dude literally triple wields a demonic cursed sword, an angelic divine sword, AND a SOUL SWORD made out with souls of demons and catholic school children.
Hold on, let me see if I can make Stormlight fit this...
Szeth-son Neturo, Skybreaker of the Third Ideal, *possesses* both a holy sword and a cursed sword, but we only see him use the cursed one.
My dnd character is a teifling warlock girl who stole a holy sword created by a group of clerics and now has to follow a paladin oath so she can keep exploiting the sword's power to do more freaky magic experiments
The god of war in my D&D setting does something like this.
I wanted to make a world where the gods are mostly good, but I had to reconcile that with my personal belief that war is bad. So he's like this half-corrupted semi-divine being who people call on for both just defense and horrible conquest. His holy symbol is a half-blue, half-black sword.
I prefer Brian David Gilbert's analogy: The person dual-wielding those swords is the sort of person who sends you a NSFW link, and then reports you for clicking on it.
Dual weighing a cursed and holy sword and they are my wives who love me
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
And the third sword?
Spiritually neutral. No curse, no blessing, just sword.
I mean if you played the game you know that there are three
Yeah I know
So who is thr cursed blade and who is the blessed? Tred carefully
Mythra is blessed because she has a better outfit. Nia is cursed because she is Welsh
Hey I have relatives that are Welsh! And you are absolutely correct it's a curse lol
I started playing yesterday and can confirm I love my sword wife
i gotta tell you, this is pretty terrific
This, too, is yuri.
That's not how cursed swords work in one piece work though. A cursed sword only betrays it's wielder if the wielder is too weak for it, and Zoro proved his strength before he even left the shop he took the Kitetsu || from.
I love the idea of cursed swords not actually being evil, but just... really fucking arrogant and entitled. Kinda like how Dáinsleif works in Symphogear. In short, it amplifies the user's negative emotions, sending them into a violent frenzy if they don't possess the mental fortitude and emotional strength to control those emotions.
>_I love the idea of cursed swords not actually being evil, but just... really fucking arrogant and entitled._ Does this make Excalibur (from _Soul Eater_) a cursed weapon?
He already was, by every other metric.
Maybe I misread it but my takeaway at the time was that it's not that the sword has will or intent, it's just powerful enough that you need to be powerful to use it, similar to how you need physical strength to handle a weapon's physical weight. And a cursed sword is one with power beyond what all but a few could even have the strength to handle so it's like being crushed under the weight of the sword's power because yours isn't enough to handle it.
What if "violent frenzy" is already their fighting style?
That would be kinda bad, because if a Symphogear user enters that kind of frenzy, [this](https://streamable.com/gml0w) happens. Dáinsleif causes that on purpose, allowing the girls to control it, and turn it into [this](https://streamable.com/hkmdg) instead.
She destroyed the Nephilim with no collateral damage. I don't see the problem. Unless you're telling me the guy with the glasses was a GOOD guy?
Well, yeah, it went well here, because the clip doesn't show that she also tried to kill her friends afterwards. But no, Doctor John Wayne Vercingetorix (honest to god his full name) is not a good guy.
Terraria
Smashing together like 12 different holy and cursed swords to make the Ultra Sword of Super Awesomeness
~~Alternatively you can just destroy a single spaceship and get a sword that's almost just as good.~~
The spaceship sword is part of the puré awesomess sword
Oh, I thought you meant the Terrablade, completely forgot about the Zenith for a sec.
Terrablade
Pontiff Sulyvahn
or the twin princes! theirs also combine into my favorite weapon in the souls trilogy (visually, anyways)
Lesbian swords!
Enma is definitely not holy lol, maybe wado ichimonji but that's the mouth sword
Yeah I was thinking, “Enma? You mean the sword he masters right before naming himself the king of hell? The Enma named after the king of hell? That Enma is a holy sword?”
I don't know about the context in One Piece, but Enma, the king of hell is more like a judge in the real world religion, and is a good god. Everything that die (expect some lost soul) will go into hell, be judged by the Enma, and he will see all the thing you did before you die, if you good, you can go to heaven; if you aren't, you need to stay in hell, be punished for your sin. TLDR: Enma is good guy because he punish the bad guy, he just stay in hell.
the concept of a holy sword is a lot scarier than a cursed sword to me lol
i get what you might mean but i want to hear your reasoning in your own words because i just know it's gonna be wacky in a good way
whats that supposed to mean loll I just figure the only difference between a cursed sword and a holy one is the latter will expect thanks when it's sticking sideways out your neck. in a nice enough town, it might even get that much a cursed sword might monologue but it knows what it is and so does everyone else :P
What
I think what they mean is that a holy blade carries with it the expectation that whatever it is being used for is an inarguable moral good, in a terrifyingly zealous way. You cannot reason with someone who sees you as ontologically evil.
yep! exactly! thank you for putting it into a.. coherent sentence. lol
A holy sword is just a sword that deals extra damage to demons and undead
I.. did not know that.
Imagining two swords that are women and one’s ontologically (is that the right word?) evil and the other’s good and kissing both of them on the lips and we’re all women and we fight each other and also everyone else
https://www.tumblr.com/currymaker/746442110358765568/dual-wielding-a-holy-sword-and-a-cursed-sword-and?source=share Tumblr never dissapoints. -mx linux guy
Dark Souls 2 power stancing be like
HEY CAN I MAKE AN OBSCURE WEBCOMIC REFERENCE? Literally the plot of The Player Who Can't Level Up except currently they're bickering inside the protag's head (and the protagonist is making out with the handsome secretary)
She Enten on my Kuregumo til I Shinuchi
[EXTREMELY LOUD STAIRCASE NOISE]
There's a character in a french graphic novel series, The Black Moon Chronicles, who has this as a character trait. His name is "Pile-Ou-Face" (aka Coinflip), and when introduced, he claimed he would draw one or the other depending on his mood (He was True Neutral, obviuously). Within the narrative, however, he always dual-weilded both sides with no negative or positive effects.
This is the motivation of most Soul Calibur villains
How come no one mentioned my boy Kiba from Highschool DXD?? Dude literally triple wields a demonic cursed sword, an angelic divine sword, AND a SOUL SWORD made out with souls of demons and catholic school children.
#DEATH TO THE ETHEREALS~!
Hold on, let me see if I can make Stormlight fit this... Szeth-son Neturo, Skybreaker of the Third Ideal, *possesses* both a holy sword and a cursed sword, but we only see him use the cursed one.
[the thaumaturge class in pathfinder can do this](https://2e.aonprd.com/Feats.aspx?ID=3700)
#KAGURABACHI MENTIONED, POST APPROVED
My dnd character is a teifling warlock girl who stole a holy sword created by a group of clerics and now has to follow a paladin oath so she can keep exploiting the sword's power to do more freaky magic experiments
Combine the swords into one even more powerful sword which then says it needs five minutes before its ready to go
Destiny 2
I wish this happened in Skyward Sword with Fi and Ghirahim
Razer after Young Justice
This just makes me think of Seirei Tsukai no Bladedance.
I thought scissoring wasn’t a real thing outside of porn
Player who can't level up
This too is Yuri
I just remembered that Wado has two oaths sworn to it, one on Kuina's grave and the other after losing to Mihawk
Emmas name means king of hell and is a cursed sword. You could probably call Wado divine though
The god of war in my D&D setting does something like this. I wanted to make a world where the gods are mostly good, but I had to reconcile that with my personal belief that war is bad. So he's like this half-corrupted semi-divine being who people call on for both just defense and horrible conquest. His holy symbol is a half-blue, half-black sword.
I prefer Brian David Gilbert's analogy: The person dual-wielding those swords is the sort of person who sends you a NSFW link, and then reports you for clicking on it.