Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28307002-20170702192455/@comment-25936766-20170703040600

Miracle Cat wrote: I was just writing a fan fiction for RWBY, and I kind of ended up writing a theory from the back of my head regarding why Qrow said one look could "strike a Grimm down" (i.e. kill it) Let me point out to you there, Qrow was not saying what Silver-Eyed Warriors literally were nor what their eyes, or them, literally did.

He was telling Ruby about the tales about the SEWs. And in these tales, it was said that a single look from them could "strike a Grimm down". The tales also paint them as basically paragons of all that is good who apparently did nothing but kill Grimm all day, but we cannot assume all SEWs were like that.

So he wasn't saying that SEWs necesarily did kill Grimm with a gaze literally. But the tales glorified their Silver Eyes to that extent. In any case though, being Petrified can be as good or even better than a KO, and makes it trivial to kill something.

@Chish: 1 thing to note: While the backlash the Silver Eyes had on Ruby's body was not particularly small, it is easily overshadowed by the implications.

A girl, 1st year as a Huntress-in-Training, who didn't even know about the eyes, in a single burst, was able to petrify the entire Dragon, which is most likely centuries old or even older than that. And the only drawback beyond great momentary pain was being in a coma for a week or 2.

So, imagine what she could do once she does control that power, or even just gets stronger. And even worse, imagine what her mother could do, being years ahead of Ruby in terms of training, power and skill, as a Huntress and most likely with the eyes too.

.....Which is the main reason the eyes are bullshit. Summer's death seems absolutely impossible to believe now, the implications make Grimm feel probably weaker than they felt before V3, and if the villains still managed to beat her anyway, either they were heavily abusing things in their favor, or are just too absurdly OP and easily border on Villain Sues.