About a world where someone invented the autosword, a weapon that can hijack your nervous system and let you swordfight with superhuman reflexes and skill even if you have no experience with the blade
question: what happens when two autosword users fight? is it evenly matched, or are some autoswords better than others, or does it depend on the physique of the user, or?
But there were two legendary soldiers on opposite sides, one who had a normal ass sword and out fought autoswords, and one who was a famous gunslinger who beat autoswords with clever trick shots
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Quinn Angstrom
: there are different software packs for different fighting styles and such. Physique comes into it. You can get implants that speed up your reaction times even more. Etc etc
Teacher came back from the war and he was like “I learned this style from my father, but after seeing war up close I’ve made some changes to it taking that into account.”
how hard is the scifi here. or rather, are autoswords forged by master swordsmiths or are they like, made in factories with computers programming them.
the legendary ultimate blacksmith, who created the greatest swords ever forged. whose innate understanding of smithing was such that she was thought to be an incarnation of the god of the forge. the finest swords that will never dull, never chip, will cut through other swords.
her daughter has found that her mother's finest works have been converted to autoswords. which she sees as basically a blasphemy against the smithing process. and possibly, villainous faction has kidnapped the blacksmith and is forcing her to produce autoswords.
and also rescue her mother. she's not like super concerned on that front though because she's pretty sure her mom could just make a supersword and get out if she really needed to.
and 2 that is a bunch of warrior purists who HATE autoswords but also are super hardcore "laws of nature survival of the fittest the weak don't deserve to survive" assholes
sword daughter is definitely young but like. she is there to learn how to beat autoswords so that she can reclaim her mom's swords. because she has to beat them to take the swords back.
Tentatively considering: scrappy nineteen-year-old street urchin type who signed up for the school because she was planning on robbing this shitty old pervert and making off with everything her gay little hands could carry the second she could wheedle the codes to the safe or wherever he kept his/the school's money out of him.
And then he gets beaten up and the guy who takes over the school turns out to actually be, like. A nice person. Who she'd feel bad about stealing from.
- The autosword can function on it's own to a limited capability, but having equipable sensors on your person can give it a better idea of what's going on around you
Does the tech have alternate applications (industrial, assistive devices, etc) or does the autosword industry have a monopoly on "devices what make you move good"?
Me being myself, I'm kind of tempted to have a girl who's like "fuck autoswords all my homies hate autoswords, also can I please take one apart and build something else with it"
Fundamentally opposed to their use in warfare but also fascinated by the underlying technology so clearly the best course of action is to learn how to disarm autosword users so she can cannibalize their weapons for other projects
she also is crazy good at swords. like. able to be really good as a smith to fix autoswords and put them back to normal, but also just an obscenely talented genius at swordplay.
she treats the swords as if they were alive. she talks to them like they're living beings. and is confused that other people don't anthropomorphize their swords.
... so considering sword daughter's smith skills are basically entirely for the purpose of like, taking the autosword hilts off her mom's swords and replacing them with proper hilts
but taking a normal sword and retrofitting it to be an autosword is blasphemous.