Written for Blackheart the PVC pirate. Coz she is obsessed with the Huntsman (personally I like Wolf) and his 'crossbow'.
This is the Huntsman's crossbow. It's very shiny and slick. That's because every day, regular as clockwork, it gets rubbed down with oil. This means it's a lot easier to use, and no one gets any splinters.
The Huntsman likes his crossbow. In the evening he likes to stroke it, just in case it gets lonely and feels unloved. He shows his crossbow to all the people that he meets, opening his cloak and revealing it, but usually they run off screaming. When he was younger, his mother used to say that if he played with his crossbow too much he'd go blind. That hasn't happened yet, and the Huntsman plays with his crossbow every chance he gets.
Once unleashed from its pouch, the crossbow stands proud and erect. Many have been impaled on it over the years, men, women and children alike. The Huntsman is open to anything. If he could, he'd put everyone on the end of his crossbow. It never misses its mark. The Huntsman can fire shot for hours at a time, a fact which the Huntsman is very proud of. Most crossbows can't last that long.
It's a very big crossbow. The average length is six inches, but the Huntsman's crossbow is a lot longer than that. Some people think that makes it difficult to manoeuvre, but the Huntsman's had a lot of practice. When he fires at a target, he can get it in the hole every single time.