User blog comment:HazelQuill7445/Awesome fan art/@comment-34633327-20170826213240/@comment-25936766-20170831140758

Originally, I didn't really like her, she was very uninteresting, but since she was meant to be a one-shot character at the time, it wasn't bad.

But then the kids in the fandom that love weak women, well, loved Velvet. And then Monty and co. decided to give her more use despite having less storytelling potential than even Cardin, and wasn't even half as interesting as other (meant to be) oneshots like Roman. The result is a mess.

First they add her to a team, CFVY. Alone, that would be fine...except CFVY are 2nd Years, which makes her bullying at the hands of newcomers CRDL very, very hard to believe, especially since Velvet didn't even try to resist, even when she perfectly could (since as a 2nd Year, she should've dealt with worse things by then).

Then, she doesn't even do anything noticeable. A small talk with Blake, a pair of pictures, a kick to a Grimm, and that's all she ever did in V2. Which is more than what her teammates did, but is still so minor that it makes me wonder "what was the point then?". We don't even get to see her really fight.

Then comes V3. In the tournament she does pretty much nothing but cry when Coco and Daichi get their asses kicked for thinking such a cripplingly-overspecialized duo could do well.

Then she fights during the FoB, and it turns out she's got the most boring, uncreative fighting style in the entire show. Her weapon literally copies other weapons, and her Semblance literally copies other people's moves. In other words, her entire fighting style consists of ripping off other people's.

The overall result is someone of very questionable plot-importance - whose ascension to "more-than-oneshot" made a previously-perfectly-fine scene questionable - with the most dull and lazy weapon in the show from an artistic sense, in a show where cool weapons are the rule, and whose fighting style is recycling animation, which is even lazier.

It's not even like Bartz in Dissidia Duodecim, who also ripped-off his allies's weapons and attacks, since in his case he mixed their attacks to create original combos. Velvet can't even do that.

Velvet sucks. Best she is is a poor man's Jack the Ripper.