Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-5277710-20130725074855/@comment-23784953-20130726112830

Brandon Storm9 wrote: It's possible that there are multiple variations of the weapon, Ruby in true weapon nerd fashion went overboard on designing it creating one of the most dangerous weapons ever conceived and learning that she was in over her head Uncle Crow instructed her on how to properly wield it. I'm guessing all the scythes in the RWBY world are under categorized in multiple classes. Ruby's using the High Caliber Sniper Scythe variant.

And it's an overpowered version of it custom-made to be able to turn into a compact rifle.

This could apply to almost all the weapons, except Myrtenaster, which could be a unique weapon used extensively by the Schnee family.

I'm pulling all this out of my butt though.