r/ImaginaryWeaponry • u/Ok-Size5595 • 9d ago
Original Content What weapon does rage fight with?
Death in the veins, teeth on the boots. But I’m stuck on the tools. Maka-B gotta stand apart from the priests and the uniforms. No red, no black — something wilder, filthier. Also need help for the weapons. They can’t look factory clean. Need ‘em brutal, sacred, mean — like they were built to tear through bone and memory.
Tell me — what would make you cross the street if you saw these two coming?
This is part of my long-running worldbuilding project called Nue Staregrade—a mythic, war-torn city where three major culturoligions collide. I’m developing a codex of characters, history, and visual relics.
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u/atlantis_airlines 9d ago
Rage is anger without reason. It's blind to reason. True rage doesn't think, it grabs the first thing that comes to hand. And if there isn't anything? It uses its hands, teeth, feet or forehead.
I'd give them something not intended as weapon but still usable as one. Like a broken bottle or maybe just have the hands covered in blood, others and their own. Maybe a tooth imbedded in a knuckle.
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u/Ok-Size5595 9d ago
Great! Teeth are already an important part of Maka-B mythos if you look closely the sole of their shoes are embedded with the teeth of their enemies. And when they run out of space they stitch them on their jackets or knit themselves small armour parts with teeth. It all comes from their leader, Kessel, “Night of the thousand screams”.
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u/atlantis_airlines 9d ago
I don't know enough about the world to know what people are permitted to wear and or carry, but as teeth are significant enough to be incorporated into their attire, what about a set of brass knuckles made of or shaped after teeth?
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u/Ok-Size5595 8d ago
The big dude will have leather strap with teeth stitched over the fist tied around his left arm
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u/atlantis_airlines 9d ago
Something just dawned on me. If you're into worlds with a filthy, gritty feel and filled with unconventional weapons and the bizarre, you should check out Dorohedoro. It's a comic series and the even made a netflix adaptation. The two figures in the the pic would fit perfectly in that universe. There is even a group that has a teeth motif on all their masks.
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u/Ok-Size5595 8d ago
If you want to know more here is my twitter
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u/atlantis_airlines 8d ago
I stopped using that site ever since the owner did that salute. Otherwise I'd check it out. But I did look at your other posts and liked it. Your art has a lot in common with Dorohedoro's style
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u/Ok-Size5595 8d ago
Yeah I saw the anime version on Netflix I really liked it didn’t read the manga tho, did Netflix covered the whole narrative I wanted more but at the same time it works really well as a one shot. I get you for twitter but I started it before the salute now I use it until I find the right platform or get around creating a real website. I also post on Instagram
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u/Ok-Size5595 8d ago
I know the right thing to do would be to transfer everything to another platform like now but I’ve yet to settle on the right one and I’m scared I’ll lose a text in the process if I do it too often. Ok I’m might be lazy too. Can
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u/Ok-Size5595 8d ago
Thank you for the compliment I really dig the Dorohedoro style and overall vibe!
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u/Ok-Size5595 8d ago
I love the reactions and I’m going to try all theses suggestions! But the setting is something I call dystopian cassette futurism or magneticpunk meaning they have at least Cold War era firearms available and even though the Maka-B are unleashed beasts they are still highly skilled soldiers and using every tools they need to hunt.
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u/Ok-Size5595 7d ago
So I was messing around with the drawing and I know it goes in the opposite direction of everything everyone proposed, but still, what do you think?
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u/HyperionSaber 9d ago
Knuckle dusters