Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.169.78.147-20150412145140/@comment-184.155.220.195-20151030222111

WEll, physically, Heathcliff's sheild would have been at its max, or at least as high as you could get it at that point. The Dark Repulser was an incredibly durable sword, more so than the Elucidator, but it was getting worn down from both Kirito MAXXING OUT his dual weilding skill, and going and getting it repetedly sharpened. When it comes down to it, Kirito's final blow from the Eclipse, the STRONGEST COMBO IN THE GAME, was insanely straining the sword, and then it hits Heathcliff's sheild that is super strong, that was too much for it to handle, even for dragon-poop. On a metaphorical level, it represents the five stages of greif. Denial: telling Heathcliff not to let Asuna die IF he lost Anger: really, really strong attack. Plus Kirito was blinded by rage so much that he forgot his whole plan: not using the sword skills. Bargaining: When he sees Asuna die in front of him, he tries to grap her particles after she had already died. Depression: that thing that "could not be called a sword skill or an attack" when he had Asuna's Lambent Light and his Elucdator. -Acceptance-: Actually, he doesn't go through acceptance, he doesn't accept his death, Asuna's death, and most of all, he doesn't accept that people will be in this death game for who knows how much longer, without Kirito, Asuna, HEathcliff, and the other 14 that died in that last battle. He denies it to the poing that he breaks the game. So, yes, there is a part that it represents. But, in ALO, when he dual weilds with Leafa's Katana, he doesn't get a new sword, he borrows someone else's. That kind of has some significance, like to him, SAO wasn't over. Or in GGO, during the Death Gun dual, technically he dual weilds the pistol he had and his photon sword, as seen with the visual effect of SAO Kirito overshadowing his current avatar. But, when he officially gets his new two longswords in ALO, that go unnamed, the anime shows them to be similar in color to the Elucidator and the Dark Repulser. Showing his new Skill Connect. And finally, when he gets Excaliber, he replaces his blue sword with it. Showing the moving on from his "pseudo-Dark Repulser". But yeah. :P just some stuff about that.