Talk:Quinque/@comment-96.245.33.61-20150628052408/@comment-26509016-20150706081159

Keep in mind that a kagune is still described as a "liquid muscle".

I get your point there, and it could be true. I just don't think it's likely. Quinque steel is just the same material as a kagune. You can manufacture a quinque, more dense than the original kagune was, sharper than the ghoul who possessed it ever could've shaped it. Then the quinque you made out of a kagune would be both harder and sharper. However, you can't shape its form. And a quinque doesn't work as a muscle anymore, while a kagune can still be used as one, being able to display a huge raw strenght. Also I wouldn't say that quinque's are stronger because quinque's are able to cut through a kagune easily while a quinque itself rarely gets destroyed. A kagune simply isn't make to destroy a quinque, while quinque's are made to destroy a kagune. It's as if you have to chose between a sword and a hamer (a hamer which is able to technically lift himself). Either you chose the sword (most quinque's are swords after all, or they're at least as sharp as one) to be able to slice through your target, or you chose the self-lifting yet still heavy hamer which doesn't need to cut through anything at all. Since he can easily smash the wielder of a sword against a wall anyway. Hard to explain... but do you know what I mean?

Both have advantages and disadvantages. I completely agree that quinques are much, much better than low-level kagunes. Quinques are simply made to hunt down ghouls. But a quinque simply has its limits. A kagune too, of course, but its limit is far, far higher than the one of a quinque. For example, look at Houji's SS-koukaku-quinque. It surely is strong, but comparing it to the kagune of an SS-rated ghoul like Ayato, Kaneki or Shachi is the same as comparing a butterknife to a katana.