Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27761614-20160208222031/@comment-66.102.6.193-20160211075009

Velvet's weapon reveal was pretty close to the one year anniversary of the death of Monty Oum. Aside from the fact that reusing animations from the trailers would be easier, I actually looked at the simmilar animations as a Tribute to Mounty Oum nearly a year after he left this world all too soon.

I kind of hope Velvet's semblance is something different then mimic and that she's just good at watch and imitating fighting styles like Task Master. Quite a few semblance have been trump cards (Yang's against the first Paladin, Phyra's against Penny, Nora's during the match against team BRNZ). They should have Velvet's semblance not be a part of her copying and using other people's weapons, simply so she has another "ace in the hole," so she can be even more awesome later in the series.

-Defcon Deceiver