Emperors Sword

[Chimeric]

Have you looked at the casting animation of Cure?
If it were not for the staff, the hand motion alone would look like you want to grope someone! (it already does look like that tho)

If you do Cure or Stoneskin with AST, it still looks weird with your empty hand gripped around nothing; if the spell effect's centered on the hand, it should most likely obscure your weird empty crab claw.