Zutoto is a knife.
Held one way a knife can cut vegetables, held another it can cut people.
A knife doesn't have to change at all to switch between those things, but using a knife for one more than the other will change it. It starts small, subtle, but the changes grow. A cooking knife dulls, a fighting knife chips and bends.
A knife used for both suffers both, and wears down faster.
If you ask a knife used for both, would it resent being worn down so much, or would it be happy to experience two different worlds at once when it thought it was destined for only one?
More importantly, if a knife was asked to change, could it? When it's had a taste of working as both, can it ever do just one task as well as it used to? A cooking knife can't cut as fast as others if it's been used in war, a fighter's blade can't cut as deep if it's used for culinary work. Yet, maybe what they lack in raw ability they make up for in experience and cunning, as they've been through far more trials and tribulations.
There's tradition around knives, pomp and circumstance that change depending who's using it, but the attitudes are the same between everyone. The knife is the extension of the body, of the soul. Without such an attitude the knife is just metal. If this is true, then who is she to deny the duality of her soul to her knives? Maybe if they both endure such stress, neither will break under it.
Held one way a knife can cut vegetables, held another it can cut people.
A knife doesn't have to change at all to switch between those things, but using a knife for one more than the other will change it. It starts small, subtle, but the changes grow. A cooking knife dulls, a fighting knife chips and bends.
A knife used for both suffers both, and wears down faster.
If you ask a knife used for both, would it resent being worn down so much, or would it be happy to experience two different worlds at once when it thought it was destined for only one?
More importantly, if a knife was asked to change, could it? When it's had a taste of working as both, can it ever do just one task as well as it used to? A cooking knife can't cut as fast as others if it's been used in war, a fighter's blade can't cut as deep if it's used for culinary work. Yet, maybe what they lack in raw ability they make up for in experience and cunning, as they've been through far more trials and tribulations.
There's tradition around knives, pomp and circumstance that change depending who's using it, but the attitudes are the same between everyone. The knife is the extension of the body, of the soul. Without such an attitude the knife is just metal. If this is true, then who is she to deny the duality of her soul to her knives? Maybe if they both endure such stress, neither will break under it.
