Lloyd takes the blade back with a quiet exhale somewhat resembling a "hoh yeah!" excitement in his tone matching the pure delight that floods his features as soon as the hilt is back in his grip. Instead of swinging the sword again, Lloyd plops himself down on the ground, crossing his legs beneath him, and places the blade on his lap, leaning in close to the center of the middle flat of the blade and squinting his eyes, trying to catch every detail in the making of the blade.
Without the powerful ether flames to distract his eyes, Lloyd's able to spot the splits between the center blade and what previously connected to be shoulders, now metallic edges. The stones in the sword glow brightly, and Lloyd can feel the pulse of the ether stored within the blade against his legs, the power of the sword legitimately radiating out. This sword isn't as powerful as the Eternal Sword, Lloyd would guess, but if there is more than one Aegis blade in this world - (Colette never strays too far from his mind) - then Lloyd could see where their powerful legacy extends out from.
Tracing the grooves of the sword from the central crystal, up to the tang of the blade, where the two dagger-like edges meet up before the crossguard, Lloyd lets himself theorize. Okay, so this blade can shift through telepathic command, obviously, and unfortunately, no blacksmith could ever accurately replicate that. However, if one were to add sliding locks and plates into the area between the shoulders of the blade and the center flat, then maybe one could create a shifting mechanism that could be activated with the press of a pommel button, or a certain type of grip on the hilt. Lloyd wonders if you could replicate the ether flames by including some sort of fire system - not unlike a flamethrower - but decides to leave that idea at the drawing board.
Still, he thinks, finally leaning back from observing the blade, his smith's curiosity at least somewhat satisfied, it's a wonder of a sword on its own. He wonders what Malos' blade looks like, wonders how blade shapes and designs must change to account for their humanoid form and their abilities. This blade reminds him faintly of the Eternal Sword in a lot of ways, but while that sword couldn't really be explained past magic, this sword - it's got a real feeling to it. It's intricacies and details, they feel like they were created with a sense of careful design that Lloyd's seen in his adoptive dad's works.
(He also wants to see the pretty sword be swung around a lot!)
"I would love to see how this sword looks in battle," Lloyd says, finally looking up to Zelos with a grin. "It's nothing like I've ever seen before!"
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Without the powerful ether flames to distract his eyes, Lloyd's able to spot the splits between the center blade and what previously connected to be shoulders, now metallic edges. The stones in the sword glow brightly, and Lloyd can feel the pulse of the ether stored within the blade against his legs, the power of the sword legitimately radiating out. This sword isn't as powerful as the Eternal Sword, Lloyd would guess, but if there is more than one Aegis blade in this world - (Colette never strays too far from his mind) - then Lloyd could see where their powerful legacy extends out from.
Tracing the grooves of the sword from the central crystal, up to the tang of the blade, where the two dagger-like edges meet up before the crossguard, Lloyd lets himself theorize. Okay, so this blade can shift through telepathic command, obviously, and unfortunately, no blacksmith could ever accurately replicate that. However, if one were to add sliding locks and plates into the area between the shoulders of the blade and the center flat, then maybe one could create a shifting mechanism that could be activated with the press of a pommel button, or a certain type of grip on the hilt. Lloyd wonders if you could replicate the ether flames by including some sort of fire system - not unlike a flamethrower - but decides to leave that idea at the drawing board.
Still, he thinks, finally leaning back from observing the blade, his smith's curiosity at least somewhat satisfied, it's a wonder of a sword on its own. He wonders what Malos' blade looks like, wonders how blade shapes and designs must change to account for their humanoid form and their abilities. This blade reminds him faintly of the Eternal Sword in a lot of ways, but while that sword couldn't really be explained past magic, this sword - it's got a real feeling to it. It's intricacies and details, they feel like they were created with a sense of careful design that Lloyd's seen in his adoptive dad's works.
(He also wants to see the pretty sword be swung around a lot!)
"I would love to see how this sword looks in battle," Lloyd says, finally looking up to Zelos with a grin. "It's nothing like I've ever seen before!"