Answer: There is fashion and there is pain.
Explanation: I added the term pain because when it comes to fashion, there are lots of shoes and other garments that are either uncomfortable or they injure your feet.
Once he cut it off, he could use it as a weapon because it's powers still worked, so if someone attacked him he could just whip it out and use it as a weapon to turn his enemies to stone, which he does on few occasions and wins the fights that would either be impossible or much harder for him.
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Capricious (adj.)
1590s, "humorous;" c. 1600, "apt to change the mind suddenly, fickle," from French capricieux "whimsical" (16c.), from Italian capriccioso, from capriccio (see caprice).
Ordinary, daily life is more wonderful than people recognize.
Than, because then is used in chronological order. than is used to introduce second elements in comparisons.