Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-94.0.112.90-20170226202217/@comment-25936766-20170226223951

MiniDaggers wrote: 1. CRDL can be stubborn. Cardin especially. He kept going at Pyrrha despite being clearly outmatched and getting his aura knocked down too low to be allowed to continue. He'd likely act the same towards Velvet.

2. Did they actually say she didn't have it and not just didn't use it because she was collecting images? Because Velvet not having a weapon at all throught the first year of Beacon seems incredibly unlikely.

3. And she knew that? Didn't she get bullied before the sparring matches happened and thus before she would've got to see their capabilities?

4. It was an example to demonstrate their likely greater physical strength, not that they'd be fighting her armed while she was unarmed. 1-But that's Cardin, not CRDL. Even if he's the only one to continue fighting, Velvet can just keep defending herself. She has more skill in general, a whole year more than him at the least, so it's not like that would be a problem.

2-She spent all the summer working on it, IIRC, according to Coco in Breach. So at the very least it was much inferior to how it appeared in V3.

Besides, "taking pics" is a horrible argument. Taking pics is piss-easy and takes next to no minutes at all, especially by someone used to taking pics.

And plus, nothing says Hunters must have a weapon. They can be unarmed if they want, especially if they fight unarmed to begin with.

3-She got to 2nd Year without being a tanky hulk in physical strength, if she didn't fucking knew that Strength is not everything, she wasted years of her life. And that's not counting the myriads of things she could've learned and experienced until then.

Besides, we don't know when that bullying scene happens, but we know it's quite some time after the Initiation, so she must have seen at least some matches between CRDL members and other students in the sparring classes.

4-If that was the intent, it fails even more. Look at Ruby: She uses a scythe and yet is barely worth any shit without it and without her Semblance. So just carrying a "heavy weapon" doesn't mean they are strong.

Hell, the only one with a heavy weapon by weapon standards is Sky, with the Poleaxe. Even Cardin's mace is 1handed, and lighter.