AzureSkyCiel

Hell, look at Statesman's degeneration.
He goes from squaring off dramatically against his sworn archvillain, to getting put behind his evil, goatee self who's been getting hyped more than he ever has, and now he doesn't even fight and AV, that's an A or BCU, they're Lieutenants at best!
So now Statesman has to put all his dramatic power behind fighting an enemy even PCs can slaughter wholesale in the Maria Jenkins arcs.

We also need a clock chest detail.

Though frankly, I hope to be able to recreate Nox from Wakfu.

Hmmm...

-Honor?

-Ascendant?

-Creed? (That was other people on the other servers can shout "CREEEEEEEEEEEED!" when trolled)

-Tomorrow?

Well, not quite a flesh out idea, but basically this was inspired by Redacted Wars 2's concept of a home instance, requests for individual character lairs, and the Villa from Redacted Creed 2.

In this case, this would basically be a small section of a city/city/village/little spot in the world that could serve as both your tutorial area, starting area, and sort of an activity hub. I called the idea: "Home Turf Instance"
You could choose your Home Turf from a list of various places/cities in the world that need a hero to help them, or a villain to show everyone who's boss, each could have a theme about them to fit your hero or villain.
After running your tutorial you could then begin investing in this home turf to bring it from it's semi-rundown state into a jewel of opulence, or let it fall into greater disrepair, there are actually advantages and themes to both.
Building your Home Turf into a Jewel would bring all manner of NPC services to the Home Turf, even ones that might not be found normally in-game at higher levels. Thematically, this is to show a hero really progressing in bringing about change to that corner of the world. For villains its meant to show you're either not such a badguy (similar to how Mafia do not tolorate @#$% on their turf), making a long term investment, or maybe you just want to rob classy places and not a dive, plus, being in good standing with the locals (or having a good bribe deal with the authorities) means its always a place you can lay low.
By letting it decay, you can attract dynamically leveled content into your neighborhood, and all manner of opportunities await when you can rough up a local arms dealer for some temp powers. (maybe what you can get from either a run-down home turf or metropolis one isn't so different afterall)
For heroes, this would be for vigilante types, basically exploiting their Home Turf to be sort of trap, lure them all in and knock'em own in one place. Villains, they just might not care enough about the place and not mind it becoming a wretched hive of scum and villainy, and with so many more villains around, it stays a safe place to lay low.

So... there's my ambitious little concept.

My ice/dark/(and eventually)soul mastery corruptor, as you might guess by amount of controls in each of those sets, earned him the nickname from me: "The pseudo dom"
it gets muggier when he's going to end up with at least four pets between dark servant, a fortunata pet, and his lore pet, making him into some kind of cordomind?

Random note: I think the OP means Feudal Japan, not ancient.

Ancient Japan consists of the Joumon Period, the Yayoi Period, and the Kofun period, ending with the rise of the Asuka period which began Classical Japan.

Nice as this all would be, there's still one major hump to overcome on this camel's back beyond just using the "reverse weapon" graphics tech used by Maelstrom: Players have access to more types of the same weapon than NPCs.

Maelstrom never changes his guns because he is a loser and does not believe in using other costume slots (likely because he failed those missions), and we only see him with his trademark guns which we see in his holsters.

PCs on the otherhand, for Broadsword alone there are no less than 21 different customization options, and that counts the legacy and color tintable broadswords as the same, and nearly all of them have different hilts, hilts that would/should be poking out of the scabbard, and would fit very differently into different scabbards.
The legacy broadsword and Valkyrie broadsword are definitely not going to be able to use one sheath because of very clear design differences.

But all in all, I'm all for scabbards, holsters, and such, and really don't care if they're functional or not. Hell, half of my characters are supposed to be keeping plenty of weapons on them, swords, knives, guns, bombs, laser-cats, and not all of them would get use in every fight.

Positron and Manticore clearly know an experienced lady is the best kind of lady.