I think the baseball bat/club Weld forms is a Tetsubo/Kanabo, a Japanese warclub perhaps best known for its association with Oni (I found the name by googling “oni club”). It was designed to smash bones, armour, and the legs of horses.
Huh, neat!
I wonder if that says anything about Weld’s own heritage? It doesn’t necessarily, but there’s a precedent for Wildbow making characters reflect their heritage as a cape. Though to be fair, most of that precedent is from characters who care more than average about it.
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