actually , you could really put some more depth into it and make it work as a healer, using ceremonial swords to perform rituals to heal or shield people with "spiritual energy" , calling for spirits / spiritual animals or something like that to buff your party or debuff the enemies , and go into melee mode for dmg

sure i doubt that anything close to that will happen, and this thread is more of a Irony to those severel threads people posted , discussing the same object in every one of them if sam should be tank or not , but didnt battle of vermillion also started as a joke?