User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Painting The Town In Depth - The plot/@comment-25641997-20140816200455

I like how Weiss is trying to make jokes now. Her childhood must have been really strict (and I personally think that Yang was jealous that Weiss' pun was better than hers). I don't like Neptune looking at other women, though. At least his weapon is totally badass! And on a completely unrelated note, I'm pretty sure I know his type. Weiss, now Yang...he clearly likes take-charge, aggressive women.

Hell, everything in this episode is totally badass! We got to see how potentially overpowered Weiss and Yang are, with Weiss having a crazy amount of uses for her Semblance and being able to use it as easily as she breathes, and Yang being able to take blunt damage and using it to give her strength. Weiss' Dust and Semblance abilities also seem to tie together in some way, as she uses her Semblance to amplify Ruby's bullets and turn them to ice pellets. She's probably the best support fighter anyone could ask for. Sun's Semblance is pretty interesting too; he seems to be able to make completely separate clones as opposed to Blake making after images. I just want to see it actually do something. Yang's got some sweet motorcylce skills and Neptune's got some sweet dodging skills, and Ruby's becoming a better leader, using more strategy and planning instead of rushing in herself. I was kind of annoyed with her in the last episode, being so gung-ho about her research of the WF and Torchwick and then leaving Weiss on a dime to chase after Penny, but she's clearly matured. It's a shame we didn't see much of her in the big RWBY fight, though. Team RWBY has some amazing teamwork, named attacks, and awesome team theme music. Neo looks very cool and has an interesting Semblance. Her design might just be my favorite in the entire show, honestly. I'm going to have to rewatch this episode for the rest of the day now!

But you bring up some good points that make me think about all the craziness I just saw. First of all: How does Penny have Aura? Can souls be artificually created (if that turns out to be the case, I'd be confused as to whether to be excited or annoyed), or is her Aura some kind of copy that works like Aura but is powered by a machine? How can a machine have a soul? Not to sound like a jerk, but Penny says it herself: She's not a real girl. Honestly, while RWBY would get really dark if she did have some device to harvest Aura from corpses powering her, I think that would be ridiculously cool.

Second: As you pointed out, I feel like Ruby would be a lot more interested in Penny from a design standpoint. I can see her talking to Penny's 'father' and Ironwood about her, but she's a weapons and robotics geek, right? I thought she'd have a lot more to say about Penny having Aura.

I'm really looking forward to your talk about the characters (mainly Torchwick)!