I took my lesson from Bleach with a note on a minor character named Abarai Renji: It's hard to take one serious when their "pissed off/high power" energy pouring out is pink. The simplistic design kind of fed into the warrior mentality of "I don't care if it looks stupid so long as it gets the job done" minus the gold filigree, but the edge (could probably be a bit larger) polished to a mirror sheen was a nice touch to the weapon.

Still though... could have gone a bit more red on the +1 to match the AF2 and make the allagan a bit less desirable, but that may play a part as well.