Some cultures in the mythical world required girls to carry and use long and short blades; by long tradition, these were ceremonies as the girls came into adolescence. Why did such a practice exist for some of these cultures? After the wars and conflicts, wandering scavengers roamed the land, females were required to protect themselves, and everyone, including the males, had to become warriors; as years passed, even centuries past, these practices remained entrenched with some change, but the essential core of tradition remained the same. People commented over time that such practices remained ridiculous as the adolescent girls’ martial arts practice fell into oblivion, and weapons became accessories for decoration. With the development of a highly developed military police force, carrying arms wasn’t needed, yet people continued to use and accept them. They took projectile weapons, guns that shot out projectiles of all types; there was no need to make such things because the projectile weapons could use anything picked up from the ground or anywhere as a projectile. A house was sometimes considered a weapon. If a prowler could break open a door, the house’s walls would encase him or her in its material, trap them, awaiting law enforcement, or being dissolved in the wall, becoming part of the house.
It was interesting how the forests became weapons, the branches of trees and vines entangled invaders, smaller ones on the ground grabbing onto the legs of enemy soldiers, soil, moss, and saplings pulling people to their deaths into the ground, suffocating them. Some machines resembled parts of the living forest that protected the people of the city and village.
Some people were seen with these rods or long-shaped things that seemed to be made of rubber, they sat on the shoulders of people who defended themselves. These rubbery things acted like living creatures. When the person was attacked, it flew off the shoulders to go on the attack or support.
The people of the mythical world I created had devised many ways to think of weapons.
Robert J. Matsunaga
