I always made Shadow my Dragoon-type character. Always. I give him the dragon boots and dragon horn every time I play. I usually end up giving the better weapons to people like Edgar or...well, Edgar gets the really good ones and everyone else gets other stuff...my point is Shadow typically gets stuck with the Gradeus. Either way, it always made sense to me that a ninja would be able to jump really high and he'd probably use a knife. Only Cyan could use katanas, so what else would a ninja use? I mentioned this to a friend the other day, and he couldn't believe that I made Shadow into a dragoon. So, what do you think? Is it really that crazy?