I think they’re based as fuck like.. especially e-liter is like. They’re never gonna put a bomb on liter which makes ink mine definitively the best sub for it, and wave breaker is pretty good too. like nobody’s getting close to an e-liter they have 1) ink mines 2) wave breaker, which they can combine to just tapshot ppl to death if they get too close so it’s based. splat charger is also very nice I love having splat bomb on it and ink vac is just like. A good option to just defend yourself and also shoot a bomb at people
Honorable Mentions: Zidian (MDZS), Ruoye (TGCF), Small Scenario Pusher (SVSSS)
Here, these weapons are not going to be measured by how “powerful” they are necessarily because weapons wouldn’t be weapons if they weren’t powerful. This placement is considering the backstory of the weapon and its uses in the story and such. Onwards!
E-Ming. The best description of E-Ming I can come up with is Luo Binghe’s entire personality squished into scimitar form. E-Ming is a literal puppy that will pout and cry and preen. It has feelings, particularly for Xie Lian, and it just wants to monopolize XL’s attention. And it’s the best cabbage cutter, of course.
Then, there’s also the fact that E-Ming is one of the most terrifying weapons in the TGCF world. Because we were given a slightly unreliable narrator who disregards all warnings and treats E-Ming like the puppy it is, we don’t really get to see much of that terrifying side of E-Ming. But seeing that Hua Cheng used E-Ming in the battle against those martial gods and won, we can assume it’s pretty powerful.
Then, aside from being a vicious Rottweiler with the heart of a little pup, E-Ming’s creation was pretty heart-wrenching. Though there wasn’t much detail in exactly what happened, the knowledge that HC dug out his eye to forge E-Ming... damn, it hurts a bit.
Also, I just wanted to pity little E-Ming a little bit for how HC treats it sometimes <3
Next up, the guqin strings. These strings don’t just make calming music or communicate with the dead, oh no. They can literally be used as blades and cut through flesh and bone as easily as any sharpened sword.
These killer guqin strings are also invented by a lady, mind you, so already, that boosts its badass, awesome weapon position. Then, as much as the scene made me want to wail and sob, I give major props to Jin Guangyao for hiding a string under his skin. That’s honestly pretty brilliant, and it sort of nudged the WWX’s public confession thing, but I digress.
Oh, and those strings killed the XuanWu of Slaughter, so. And wielding a battle guqin is just pretty graceful and badass at the same time.
To our many honorable mentions because there’s so many awesome weapons! Zidian, literally a whip of purple lightning. It crackles, it sparks, it pulls souls out of possessed bodies, it fits perfectly with the Jiang Sect aesthetic, and it was wielded by the most awesome woman in the novel, what else is there to be said?
Ruoye’s little quirks such as having a preference of pretty women over bulky men and being a little bit rebellious just make it adorable. It fights, it saves, it protects, and it wiggles like a good noodle ribbon. A very reliable companion, if I may say so.
And lastly, though not really a “weapon”, I would like to honor the System’s Small Scenario Pusher. It does a fabulous job flipping the situation on its head and diffusing whatever negative tension is in the air for something more favorable.
Back before mega fast internet existed, one of my favorite things to do was go to my favorite website and send random messages to annoying people nonstop until their browser came to a halt. It often lagged me too but that was the sacrifice I was willing to make :)
