[quote=Driving Park]
I don't have any angel characters.I go with katanas without exception for a number of reasons.1) Katanas are beautiful. I don't find straight swords nice to look at unless the hilt is really ornate, and honestly I don't find European curved swords good to look at either.2) Katanas are generally fast, agile and precise. That's what I like. I know there are straight swords that can be, but when I think of straight swords I think of big, burly broadswords wielded by tank-type users. When considering a character of that type I generally prefer massive staffs to swords, so there isn't really a situation where I'd use a broadsword.3) I love everything Japanese. When making Vikki I actually looked up different Japanese swords to use in place of a katana but didn't find any I liked as much.
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Katanas have a reputation of being one of the stronger blades in the older times, after all. Personally, you would usually pick a katana over a broadsword because the single-edged blade is just so much better at doing its job than the relatively blunt broadsword. Broadswords were mainly good at forcefully bashing apart armor and roughly cutting stuff up, while katanas were superior in terms of cutting edges because of how it was used, not because of it was made.

Still, I'm wondering why no one came up with a lance/spear/naginata weapon user. I lovelovelove the naginata because it's basically a freaking sword attached on a spear's handle.

EDIT: I still think Sabers are the best blades in history. So freaking overpowered.