Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170206193307/@comment-27265101-20170210223514

You...seem to think that the villains are being built up to be this utterly unbeatable force when in reality they aren't. It's a bunch of teenagers three years my junior going up against an eldritch abomination, her pet demigod, several heavily skilled fighters, and a girl who can make you see what ever she wants you too. And yet Ruby has managed to handicap two of those respective villains, and rather effectively I might add. Tyrian no longer has the ability to poison anyone with his stinger missing and Cinder's confidence has been shaken as hell as her losing an eye and her forearm, the one that touched Pyrrha as she died I might add.

Never in a story is the main character immediately going to get a leg up on the villains, that's the whole point of the heroes journey!

Merc's legs are obviously fire proof and I can imagine waterproof as well, I mean look at Ironwood and Yang, you think their prosthetics are going to be that flimsy?