Thread:FrenchTouch/@comment-9803708-20170309003735/@comment-9803708-20170311191553

Well it's symbolism, of course it's not neccesary.

Why would it be inconvienient for the blade to be a little wider? Also I want it a tad shorter I think.

It would be obscured by the cape a bit, but I'm fine with that. I just want it to be there.

I don't really have much in the way of an in-universe justifcation, like a soliloquy about how he decided to get that massive tattoo on his body. I thought of it for style and to give him a the feeling of total immersion into his totem. KO wears a suit that he can take off and is still very much a human: neither predator nor prey, but al-Mualim has embraced being a full-blown predator.