How come if I'm using two swords or blades, it only shows my character holding one place to whip it out from? The second sword just magically comes out of the other leg.

Not an issue. Just a "feature"

just wait for a mod fixing that.im sure there's some modders out there aware of the issue..

Problem is that it's one of the things that is pretty tricky to fix.

But well, if they've implemented dual-wield parrying, I guess this can be implemented as well.

think cheap.. just replace the animation for the arm that used to hold shield (that is left) with the same-inverted version of the arm that used to hold one handed weapon (that is right)
it'll do.wouldn't it?