Talk:Roy Alphard/@comment-24727405-20190618152351/@comment-24727405-20190618162720

A Snake Sword is similar to a Whip Sword. It's a sword that can transform into a mid-long range whip. This type of weapon often falls squarely into Awesome, but Impractical, where you'd need a pretty impressive engineering setup to create a mechanism and spring capable of holding the sword in sword-form without violating basic structural integrity andcapable of sending it out as a whip. As of yet, no one's managed to make a working model of such a weapon in Real Life (though some come close in principle), but fiction usually Hand waves any structural issues through magic, or electromagnets. The closest practical Real Life equivalents, like the chain whip and Indian Urumi, usually lack the cutting power of a sword or the reach of a whip. Strangely enough is that the majority of characters who uses that weapon in games and/or anime are female characters.

Crusch got her arm back for no magical reason after fighting against Ley, so it's possible that Ricardo reattach his, but there has to be a reason why he couldn't. Plus, we just recently just had more Ana + Ricardo backstory released. Giving a backstory to a character that is already dead character (if he becomes armless) is kinda counter productive. Plus, we...already have a limbless character, and thats Al. Giving Ricardo without an arm and give him a prostetic limb just opens up huge plotholes I must say... :T