Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25343309-20150430230909/@comment-25396609-20150527181749

Vermont Giada:

His picture and character description seem oddly familiar, and I can't quite place it. may just be my imagination.

Personality seems to be the typical deadly nice guy, which I can respect. i happen to like those character types, myself.

A friend of my dads used to own and operate a small bar on his own. it's a full time job, day and night. unless he closes it on an erratic schedule (which is not great for business) he wouldn't have time to hunt Grimm on the side. Now, if he were to run a bounty service out of the bar while taking a commision from each job payment, THAT would be a good way to bring in extra cash flow.

Taking the barkeep theme a bit far with the weapon, a pool cue would be inconspicuous, sure, and be decent for CQC if it was a blade or piercing weapon (a lance or estoc comes to mind) but as a quarterstaff, the gradual taper means he would have to adjust his grip when sliding his hands long the shaft, and one end would not do much damage, as it lacks mass. the strength of a staff is that it is a symetrical pole with a consistent diamter, it can hit equally hard with either end and you don't need to worry about which end is facing the opponent. a pool cue would lack this advantage, since it is asymetrical, trying to strike with the small end would do next to no damage. and don't even get me STARTED on balance.

when you go on to explain the second form, you mention it has the form of a sword. which you have not mentoned at all before that point. Transforming the pool cue into a whipe is a bit odd, but fairly simple as a concept and, from a technical stance, fairly easy to pull off.

One problem I'm seeing is this: Your explanation of where the dust is stored. you say it is stored in the segments of the whip, but those get smaller as you get close to the end (tapering of the pool cue would translate into the whip form), which is not terribly efficient, each segment  in the row would have about half the dust of the previous one. you're better off putting a concelead rotating cylinder inside the base/handle.

on to the shoes, what exactly IS impact dust? is it the same as the dust used in firearms? does it trigger an explosion when it strikes? does it increase the density of his shoes when activated?

That semblance is horrible. you're better of just giving him friggin telekinesis or something, as it would achieve the same thing with less overly specific parameters.

You have GOT to learn some more descriptive words, dude 'amazing' and 'amazes' are variations of one word. same thing with Orion and 'reckless'

I understand being a popular and well liked bartender, but i thing Vermont is a bit TOO popular.

background is kind of meh, nothing too special, but not too generic either. all in all mediocre, nothing specific I can really think of to say about it.

nothing to say about the bar, as it's pretty much irrelevent.

i noticed you put the team name as VNSR, and I have an infinite level of doubt that pokemon exists in RWBY, so it really doesn't make any sense to have to have a team by that name.