Talk:Shortwings/@comment-226878-20140829075726/@comment-226878-20140902055717

Um... by "most RWBY weapons", do you actually mean "just Magnhild and Mytenaster?" While Pyrrha has a marking on her shield, no other characters have similar markings on their weapons. Neo's umbrella is fairly elaborate, but then again, it's a freaking umbrella. Even Sun Wukong's guns don't have actual markings, it's just got yellow highlighting spots where the weapon has natural lines due to its dual functionality. On the other hand, Neptune's Gun does also have some markings. The common thread between these characters is that they are royal (if my assumption about Neptune being the Dragon Prince is correct), so it would make sense that their weapons are more elaborate.

But those marks are still not quite the same. Russel is so far the third character to have a secondary symbol with which he can be associated (Neptune's symbol is a trident but he also has cross-hairs on his back, Ruby's is scatter but her Slayer outfit has a strangely elaborate symbol on the sleeve, and now Russel - symbol of bird - has this... weird thing)... this mark is no mere aesthetic highlight. It's too specific; isolated.

Still, I grant that is almost impossible to ascertain its meaning without at least knowing more about Russ (i.e. "Is he, in fact, an allusion to Robin Hood?" What would this symbol mean if that were true? How is it significant?) There's no knowing.