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Marceline's iconic red electric bass guitar, converted from her family's ancient battle axe — her primary instrument, weapon, and the most honest expression of who she is.
The Bass Axe is simultaneously a weapon, an instrument, and a symbol. Marceline took her family's ancient battle axe — a tool of demon war — and made it into a guitar, which tells you almost everything about how she processes the past. She plays it constantly: on adventures, at home, floating above her couch at 3am, at every emotional turning point in her life. Her music is her most direct form of communication. The songs she writes tell truths she won't say in conversation. The Bass Axe is the medium for all of that.
A red electric bass guitar with the distinctive shape of a double-headed battle axe — because it is one, the neck retrofitted from a weapon into an instrument. The wood is old and dark despite the red finish, the strings clearly well-maintained, the whole thing bearing the honest wear of an instrument played for centuries. When Marceline plays it, her whole posture changes.
Also known as: Bass Axe, Marceline's Guitar, The Red Bass, Battle Axe Guitar