User blog:Ishimura Elite/The Placeholder

The Placeholder is a weapon of unimaginable power, or not, and is wielded by characters who currently don't have a named weapon.

Abilities
The power of The Placeholder comes from it's ability to be a large number of weapons at once. The abilities of the weapon are dependent on the person wielding it, giving it wildly varying levels of power, which can either give it power beyond belief, or give it about as much lethality as mashed potatoes flung from a trebuchet firing in the opposite direction. The Placeholder's varied abilities comes from the fact that it is wielded by every single character who doesn't have a named weapon of their own, poor guys. Unfortunately, nobody who has wielded The Placeholder has ever used the weapon, because by the time they're introduced in a story they have a named weapon and can no longer use The Placeholder.