Talk:Lightning Lash/@comment-366087-20190818050853/@comment-4010415-20190818180846

I do think that Ilia's weapon, at the very least, was intentionally designed to make you think of a chameleon. When you look at it head-on, the Dust chambers can make you think of a chameleon's eyes.

But yeah, we don't really have any official word on what the inspirations were behind this weapon, nor who designed it. Monty, Miles, and Kerry all three planned out the story and created the characters together before they began writing the script for Volume 1, so it could have been any of those three, or even someone else from CRWBY. Hell, Miles is the one who came up with the Gods of Light and Darkness, and Monty and Kerry helped flesh out the idea.