Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181208003742/@comment-4141313-20181208035351

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To avoid repetitive analysis and having watched the promotional clip released a few times now, I believe I have found each and every detail behind Maria's weapons.

Her weapons are a pair of walking sticks/canes that transform into Kama, a sickle like tool, one of which she currently uses as her cane. Each one is telescopic, a pair of hooks jutting out from the back of the decorative skull with a gun barrel in between them, and a unfoldable sickle blade located below the skull that unfolds and moves on top of the skull. On the base of the skull and the pole are metal containers that holds dust, in Maria's case, Gravity Dust.

Right beneath the back of the skull and hooks is a trigger that, when pressed, activates the firing mechanism, allowing her to throw her weapons and propel them with recoil, or maneuver using the recoil. Below that on the opposite side of the handle is another trigger that, when pressed, activates the dust in the containers, causing them to glow. The Gravity Dust then gives them a magnetic effect, pulling each one closer to each other in spite of weight or normal gravity, as the heavy nevermore was pulled down whilst she was pulled up.

Her preferred method of fighting is to use one Kama as a hook to mark a point, and the other one to drag both herself and her enemies to it, forcibly if needed. Like Ruby and Qrow when using their War Scythe Modes, she uses the firing mechanism to propel herself midmovement and add more weight to her strikes. She also will throw one Kama to the ground and ride aerial Grimm while wielding the other, forcing the Grimm to make a crash landing and injuring it in the process.

While she clearly still has one of her weapons still, it is unknown is she still has her other one and is keeping it under her cloak similar to how Sun keeps Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang beneath his shirt, or if she no longer has it.(*)

(*)May become invalidated by the episode.