Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26039386-20151207052048/@comment-25396609-20151207063350

I know you're on my side, but I was making a note of a better explanation for the weight problem besides relying on magic.

I'm not all that familiar with FF so all I know about Materia is what i've gathered by passive observation.

His notes about the usage of scythes as weapons are invalid for one major reason; RWBY is not real life, styles of combat have been developed for the explicit purpose of maximising their combat effectiveness, even if they are on the bottom rung of effective weapons in our world this is not our world, it is a world where scythes are incredibly deadly because the people using them are superhuman levels of strength and skill.

Also, on the topic of scythes having "paper thin blades"

My brother has an old scythe in his tool shop, with an OLD blade which has been put on new handles several dozen times throughout the years, clear back to when my great great grandpa used it on his farm. Guess what? the blade is almost as thick as his broadsword.

Link me ot as many videos as you want, doesn't disprove the first video showing that a scythe is, in fact, an effective weapon, so long as it his on a straight shaft (Though I have seen a person use a standard scythe in combat, a LARP event with foam weapons, some guy took a PVC pipe and bent it to shape for a scythe, stuck a pool noodle to the end for the blade. Was downright lethal.)