Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4830106-20130809183159/@comment-71.178.5.70-20130815222455

BenRG wrote: Nixeu wrote: Hey guys. Just thought you might be interested: look closely at  Pyrrha's spear. It's also a gun. You can see the trigger. Looks like the head of the spear rotates and is the grip, and shaft is the barrel. Myrtenaster has a trigger too but, as far as I can tell, it doesn't have a gun mode; it's just the activation system for the various Dust payloads.

My own guess regarding Magnospear is that it can collapse its shaft into the wider forward body just behind the spearhead. With the length reduced by more than half, Pyrrha can use it as a kind of sword. I also wonder if the spearhead can contain a Dust crystal payload. The way Jaune went ragdoll after that near miss makes me wonder if it had been loaded with a low-power electric-effect crystal and that he had been effectively tasered. Wait, Myrtenaster has a trigger? Where? I checked a side view and didn't see it. I did see stuff that might have been what you're referring to, but it's not that similar to the Magnospear's. It's located near where Wiess holds the sword. The Magnospear trigger is inconviently located for that kind of use, not to mention backwards. I guess you could use it, but it seems like it'd be better located elsewhere for dust use. Plus, the profile looks like a gun, if you remove the spearhead. Seems simpler for it to be a gun.

The collapse-into-sword one doesn't seem like the sort of thing I'd expect in RWBY. Especially with Pyrrha's symbol have a spear in it. Again, possible, doesn't seem likely to me. As for some form of taser function, I'd think we'd hear that, and also I don't think it touched him, just his jacket. The ragdoll was more likely from the force of the throw. However, I can see a fire spear or some other Dust related functions, just perhaps only one, not Wiess' multiple.