Of the Worst Generation, less than half of them are swordsman: Zoro, Hawkins, Killer, Drake, and Law.
Of these five, it's very obvious that Zoro will have a lot of skills and wield several different named swords as he's a main character and Law is an extremely popular character with a versatile devil fruit that also gives him a wide skill set in addition to wielding a named sword. Hawkins is the same, but to a much lesser extent with his skill set and named sword and Killer even less so as far as skill set and unique named blades despite his level of power.
This leaves Drake as the odd man out.
While being a dual-wielding swordsman with a saber (which seems to be an upgrade from his rapier pre-timeskip) and his trusty axe, neither of these weapons are named and from his first appearance in Chapter 498 up to his latest appearance in Chapter 1117, he has only shown ONE named move from his swordsmanship: X-Calibur which is a nod to the legendary sword, Excalibur which makes sense because the legends of it are apart of British literature and Sir Francis was born in England which is apart of Britain.
Despite all of this, he's able to do something interesting.
Looking back at his clashes during Wano - with Zoro and Yamato ( who later become his allies ) - both his axe and saber are able to hold their own against Zoro who was wielding Kitetsu and Enma which are both Meito (with Enma being the stronger of the two) as well as when up against Yamato's Takeru which is a kanabo club that's able to clash with Kaido's own though it's unclear what grade Takeru is.
If they were crap, they would have been shattered immediately, so it's clear that Drake's saber and axe are strong weapons.
It's just downright weird that we don't have any information on them or anything other techniques on Drake.
He does still seem to have a role to play in SWORD, so I'm wondering if that's when the information will come--when Drake's hand will be completely revealed.
Oda could do some interesting things with Drake as far as naming his weapons and his swordsmanship technique from taking more inspiration from Arthurian Legends by naming either of his weapons after the Wizard, Merlin or one of the famous knights such as Lancelot (the greatest Knight) or Galahad ( Lancelot's son ).
Even drawing from the fact that Drake's lone sword technique is named X-Calibur, either the saber or the axe could simply be a famous weapon named "Arthur" after King Arthur himself with the remaining weapon taking on another name famous name from Arthurian Legends.
What do you think?
Perhaps it was too on the nose to have Drake have Excalibur as a weapon on top of already having him take inspiration from an Englishman who also just happened to be a privateer, but I say all this to say that we're in the Final Saga now and as a person who still enjoys Drake as a character despite how disappointing his showing as been up to this point, I'm hopeful that some of the blanks will be filled in for him similar to what we've seen for Law and more recently, Bonney as both these characters are incredibly fleshed out at this point where the manga currently is.
If you have any potential thoughts on what Drake's weapons could be named or techniques even or any other thoughts, feel free to share.
Of these five, it's very obvious that Zoro will have a lot of skills and wield several different named swords as he's a main character and Law is an extremely popular character with a versatile devil fruit that also gives him a wide skill set in addition to wielding a named sword. Hawkins is the same, but to a much lesser extent with his skill set and named sword and Killer even less so as far as skill set and unique named blades despite his level of power.
This leaves Drake as the odd man out.
While being a dual-wielding swordsman with a saber (which seems to be an upgrade from his rapier pre-timeskip) and his trusty axe, neither of these weapons are named and from his first appearance in Chapter 498 up to his latest appearance in Chapter 1117, he has only shown ONE named move from his swordsmanship: X-Calibur which is a nod to the legendary sword, Excalibur which makes sense because the legends of it are apart of British literature and Sir Francis was born in England which is apart of Britain.
Despite all of this, he's able to do something interesting.
Looking back at his clashes during Wano - with Zoro and Yamato ( who later become his allies ) - both his axe and saber are able to hold their own against Zoro who was wielding Kitetsu and Enma which are both Meito (with Enma being the stronger of the two) as well as when up against Yamato's Takeru which is a kanabo club that's able to clash with Kaido's own though it's unclear what grade Takeru is.
If they were crap, they would have been shattered immediately, so it's clear that Drake's saber and axe are strong weapons.
It's just downright weird that we don't have any information on them or anything other techniques on Drake.
He does still seem to have a role to play in SWORD, so I'm wondering if that's when the information will come--when Drake's hand will be completely revealed.
Oda could do some interesting things with Drake as far as naming his weapons and his swordsmanship technique from taking more inspiration from Arthurian Legends by naming either of his weapons after the Wizard, Merlin or one of the famous knights such as Lancelot (the greatest Knight) or Galahad ( Lancelot's son ).
Even drawing from the fact that Drake's lone sword technique is named X-Calibur, either the saber or the axe could simply be a famous weapon named "Arthur" after King Arthur himself with the remaining weapon taking on another name famous name from Arthurian Legends.
What do you think?
Perhaps it was too on the nose to have Drake have Excalibur as a weapon on top of already having him take inspiration from an Englishman who also just happened to be a privateer, but I say all this to say that we're in the Final Saga now and as a person who still enjoys Drake as a character despite how disappointing his showing as been up to this point, I'm hopeful that some of the blanks will be filled in for him similar to what we've seen for Law and more recently, Bonney as both these characters are incredibly fleshed out at this point where the manga currently is.
If you have any potential thoughts on what Drake's weapons could be named or techniques even or any other thoughts, feel free to share.
