Approved Tech Skin Shears

[The Amalgam]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: Create The Amalgam's Personal Lightsaber at long last

• Image Source: https://www.deviantart.com/dragonrider364/art/Weapons-Of-Revan-double-bladed-lightsaber-290900670
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source: Lightsaber

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: The Amalgam
• Affiliation: Percival Io
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: N/A
• Modularity: No
• Production: Unique
• Material: Durasteel, Vexxtal Crystals , Mestare Crystals lightsaber components

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Lightsaber
• Size: Average
• Weight: Light

SPECIAL FEATURES

Split-Saber Design, meaning staff can be split into two separate Lightsabers

So corrupt with the Dark Side they can do more damage than normal due to the Vexxtal Crystals installed that can potentially leave a corrupting aura that can possibly degrade tissue long after the blade has struck without immediate medical attention. A Light Side User holding it is at risk of being corrupted to sadistic insanity due to the dark power tainting the whole weapon. Insanity takes the form of inflicting torture, and bloody, brutal, sickening acts on innocent people.

Blades have crystals from the planet Mestare installed, they will not shut down from exposure to pure Cortosis

Both blades are dual phase and their cutting power is adjustable

So infused with the Dark Side it has been very slightly naturally alchemized, rendering it much more resistant to damage than normal

STRENGTHS

• Multiphase: Heavy adjustability for a staff, allowing her to increase or reduce the length of the blades by a factor of half it's length, and decrease their killing strength and cutting strength to miniscule levels, to the point the blade is a harmless beam of light that another sword will easily pass through, allowing for deadly feints and other deceptions in combat, based off ancient schematics from the lightsaber of Exar Kun
• Jedi-Killer: The weapon is so heavily infused with the Dark Side due to the use of both Vexxtal and Corrupted Mestare Crystals. The Vexxtal Crystals can potentially leave a corrupting aura of dark energy on a wound site, which can potentially turn necrotic without immediate Force Healing or Bacta applied. The Mestare Crystals prevent the blades from shutting off when exposed to Cortosis. A Light Side User just holding it has a strong risk of being corrupted into sadistic insanity, due to how the Dark Side infuses the entirety of the weapon's frame because of the original designer's use of tainted crystals as well as the time it has spent in the original designer's proximity creating a sort of feedback loop of corruption that creates the insanity risk. The type of insanity a person is at risk of succumbing to is almost always of the bloody variety, with maximal cruelty inflicted on potential victims. It can possibly take years to undo the mental damage inflicted by the saber on a Jedi who held it or kept it too long, if indeed it can be undone at all. Jedi who succumb to it quickly are almost always the hardest to shake from it's effects. Expect the symptoms to be a desire to hurt people for the sake of it, taking pleasure while doing so and seeking to constantly inflict greater and greater suffering, especially on the innocent. Being in The Amalgam's proximity so long has corrupted the hilt so severely it's become naturally infused with the Dark Side, allowing it to resist being damaged much more than normal, indicating some very slight form of natural alchemy has taken place (Still not anywhere near as strong as a traditional alchemized object)
• Surprise!: It can be split into two separate lightsabers, each half wielded separately, and interlocked via magnetic clasps at the bottom of each saber half

WEAKNESSES

• Sonic: Sonic attacks bend around the blade
• Force Voids: Will shut down in Force Voids
• Slugthrowers: Solid bullets melt against the blade, potentially causing splash damage
• Paddle beams: Paddle beams travel around the blade
• Detectable: Only the Amalgam herself could hide the blade, and then only by directly having it next to her body while camouflaging her presence with the Force. In anyone else's hands, it's easily detected in the Force due to its presence being the same as it's creator's... extreme, rotting corruption
• Vanilla: At full strength, it doesn't do any damage to conventional organic and non organic materials that's greater than a normal Lightsaber
• Force Light: Due to being so corrupt with the Dark Side, it can be damaged by Force Light, corroding the hilt, and causing the blades to malfunction.

DESCRIPTION

Skin Shears was the Split-Saber used by "The Amalgam" for her entire career, even after Darth Phyre infected and ultimately killed the copy she thought was the original Amalgam, taking over her body and assuming her identity, initiating a masterful breakdown of the object of her obsession, Laertia Io. After the Destruction of Phyre-Amalgam, Percival was granted the weapon as a trophy though His Mother and creator, Laertia Io, may call upon it's might during emergencies by asking to barrow it, though it is legally fully Percival Io's property. A bitter trophy, but quite a prize regardless.

Prior to her rebirth as The Parliament, Laertia gave her son permission to kill her using this very blade along with his own katana. Whether or not he took her up on the offer is unrecorded by the history books of House Io. Though she fully encouraged him to.

A prized Relic of the Cult of The Brain Demon , for Percival to be granted the honor of owning it, confirms how fully he is The Amalgam's son...

Ordinarily, only the Amalgam would be able to hold the blade, but due to the strong bonds and feelings many of the individuals had in question to the Amalgam (Including, interestingly, her own rival, The Battalion) and her own extremely complex feelings towards them in turn, as well as the fact they are now tainted as severely as The Amalgam was, the blade responds to most of them, as they all carry traces of their ties to her. Percival is able to hold and wield it due to having such a naturally immense resistance to the Force itself that he is not affected by the blade's properties.

 

[Krass Wyms]

The Amalgam

Hello, I shall be handling this today.

First lets look at the one

Jedi-Killer: The weapon is so heavily infused with the Dark Side, that its blades have enough dark energy to protect them from the effects of pure Cortosis, and can possibly damage the flesh of nearly any Light sided being they touch. A Light Side User just holding it has a strong risk of being corrupted. Being in The Amalgam's proximity so long has corrupted the blade so severely it's become naturally alchemized, rendering it nearly indestructible.

THen we will break it down.

Kyber Crystals so corrupt with the Dark Side they can do severe damage to the flesh of Light Oriented beings.

There are canon lightside crystals that can burn darksiders when held. However kybers has a quasi sentience which resists bleeding and corruption. You will need a canon basis for a kyber getting those types of effects usually related to exceptionally rare and unique crystals.

Blades so corrupt with the Dark Side, they will not shut down from exposure to pure Cortosis

That isn't how a lightsaber works. Cortosis has next to nothing to do with the force signature of the one using a blade. It feeds back the energy to overload the circuits. You'll need a canon basis for such abilities.

Both blades are quadruple phase and their cutting power is adjustable

To quote John

No

Duel phase sabers were a thing, adjusting the blade to double its size is alright... quad phasing it is a no. Such a size blade is impractical to all but a gorax and even then it would still be like holding the worlds largest toothpick.

So infused with the Dark Side it has been naturally alchemized, rendering it nearly indestructible

Alchemy generally required blood and power, naturally occurring is generally beyond rare. Naturally mutated and twisted by the darkside in living things and some objects having an echo of it. Can be done but it wouldn't be nearly as powerful as or strong an effect as traditional alchemy. This is going to need further expansion then what is given and even then it is going to need to be toned down. The saber being tainted by being with its wielder for so long is a good start but just carrying it wouldn't infuse it with that much naturally.

Tag me when edits are done.

 

[The Amalgam]

Heavy edits made, Krass Wyms

 

[Krass Wyms]

The Amalgam

A Light Side User holding it is at risk of being corrupted to sadistic insanity

Jedi-Killer: A Light Side User just holding it has a strong risk of being corrupted into sadistic insanity.

As always if you are going to put a powerful effect it should be explained more then a sentence.

• Affiliation: The Amalgam The Amalgam / @Percival Io, @Laertia Io, The Battalion The Battalion Cult of The Brain Demon
• Production: Unique

Unique implies one person. this is made for the amalgam. It wouldn't be something anyone in a group can use.

 

[The Amalgam]

Explained why it could drive light side users nuts better, and as for so many being affiliated with it, it's because almost everyone there had such unique ties to The Amalgam, that the blade responds to them by letting them wield it without granting them the ability to hide it, and added this explanation into the description section. In Laertia and The Battalion's case, it's literally a trophy/badge of office, wielded only rarely by them. It's not going to be wielded by any Witch any time they get ready. It's mainly Percival's possession but it's still affiliated as a relic of the Cult The Amalgam led, so I listed them as they are essential to the weapon's lore, Krass Wyms , because after all they had been through, it didn't make sense that Laertia, Amy's protege, and The Battalion, her rival, wouldn't be able to use it, or wouldn't be able to affect it in such a way that would allow them to be able to use it, even if it's only really rarely. In Percival's case, it's like the blade is being turned on and used by a training droid.

 

[Krass Wyms]

The Amalgam

After discussing it to quote my boss the big man

A unique item can't be affiliated with a cult. She could explain in the description it's a cult relic sure. But they don't get to be listed as affiliation.

So it is going to be a no, unique item singular person. its history can be it is personal to the cult but it will for just that.

 

[The Amalgam]

Have removed the Cult link from affiliation and transferred it to the description of section, Krass Wyms


Edit: Can I at least keep the affiliation as Amalgam, Laertia and Percival? The three are deeply interconnected and I really think it makes sense in story that all three could wield it.

 

[Krass Wyms]

The Amalgam

IF the singular owner affiliated it wants to let someone use it in a thread. That is fine.... but they should be listed as the only owner of a unique item.

As always if you are going to put a powerful effect it should be explained more then a sentence.

You still have not answered or made edited pertaining to this.

 

[The Amalgam]

But I did make edits, in both the special sections and the Strengths, explaining how all the elements from the weapon, from it's naturally alchemized hilt, to its deliberately tainted crystals all combine together in tainting the weapon so heavily it creates the conditions for insanity. I edited it in days ago, Krass Wyms

And have changed the affiliation to Percival only.

 

[Krass Wyms]

The Amalgam

These are the descriptions yes you combined the corrupted crystals. You did not explain what the insanity entails. As you have been told multiple times, if you are going to have a powerful effect it needs a description "if you hold it you might insane." is not telling what it can entail.

So corrupt with the Dark Side they can do more damage than normal due to the Vexxtal Crystals installed that can potentially leave a corrupting aura that can possibly degrade tissue long after the blade has struck without immediate medical attention. A Light Side User holding it is at risk of being corrupted to sadistic insanity due to the dark power tainting the whole weapon.

Jedi-Killer: The weapon is so heavily infused with the Dark Side due to the use of both Vexxtal and Corrupted Mestare Crystals. The Vexxtal Crystals can potentially leave a corrupting aura of dark energy on a wound site, which can potentially turn necrotic without immediate Force Healing or Bacta applied. The Mestare Crystals prevent the blades from shutting off when exposed to Cortosis. A Light Side User just holding it has a strong risk of being corrupted into sadistic insanity, due to how the Dark Side infuses the entirety of the weapon's frame because of the original designer's use of tainted crystals as well as the time it has spent in the original designer's proximity creating a sort of feedback loop of corruption that creates the insanity risk. Being in The Amalgam's proximity so long has corrupted the hilt so severely it's become naturally infused with the Dark Side, allowing it to resist being damaged much more than normal, indicating some very slight form of natural alchemy has taken place (Still not anywhere near as strong as a traditional alchemized object)

Yes combining the crystals in the saber with the darkside alchemized it that can be a given with the power of the darkside but you made the effect of insanity. It needs to be expanded on. YOu can keep your descriptions but if someone grasps it saying they are possibly going insane can mean any number of things. THey could see things or they could go full blown heads in the freezer.

 

[The Amalgam]

Have edited in special features and strength sections to describe the insanity the weapon can inflict, Krass Wyms

 

[Krass Wyms]

Thank you

This is manageable now, with high potential for abuse. I am approving it with the continued warning of abuse it and lose it.