Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160207164218/@comment-24994749-20160208005005

I was right, I had a field day with this ep.

Ruby either took note form her Mountain Glenn episode and took some hand-to-hand (or at least leg) combat lessons, or this is just her normal weaponless skill when angry and rested.

About Velvet, I loved my Combat Totes in that scene... That said, Velvet's weapon reveal was, alongside Jaune, Pyrrha and Ozpin running, the only moment I had issues with the animation. I have no qualms with them using I May Fall, would have preferred an original song but it was still kind of fitting since it's about standing together against terrible odds and Velvet's ability is basically to use the abilities of all her partners and the final blown was dealt by Weiss courtesy of a new ability that she was clearly only able to awaken out of desperation for Velvet. I think my main quirk with the animation in that scene is that the fighting wasn't synced with the song. Yeah, I'm sure that's why it felt awkward.

About the weapons she summoned... let's see, I perceived nothing illogical: we saw her taking pictures of Sun while Sun basically walked possing around her, I don't think it's hard to believe she asked Sun to show her all the forms of his weapon. She had Coco's minigun, Coco is her team mate and is clearly familiar with the workings of Velvet's weapon so it makes sense Velvet would have pictures of her teams weapons. We saw her take pictures of Crescent Rose. And with the tournament, it's not illogical to think she got the pictures of Blake's, Weiss's and Nora's weapons during a match. Or just asked, since we know RWBY knows CVFY, Weiss even run to talk to Velvet in V2.

As for limitations and her copying the fighting styles, notice she only land one hit with Crescent Rose. We know there are few people that can wield scythes effectively, I get the impression Velvet started with CR because she has seen Ruby do cool stuff with it but quickly realised she herself doesn't have the skills to use it effectively and moved to something else. Notice she neither used the most sick move of Gambol Shroud that's throwing around the pistol with the ribbon. She only used the words and the ribbon as a rope. She also only shot a couple of punches with Ember Celica.

Overall, I would say Velvet is meant to be a Jack of All Trades, Master of None. If her semblance is tied into her ability, she probably has trained to be familiar with the wielding of different types of weapons, but clearly can't exploit the specifics of personalised hunter weapons. Notice, she was more fluent with Nora's hammer, Sun's staff and Weiss rapier. All of which she wielded as simple weapons.

Talking about CVFY, where was Fox?

If there was a time for Ozpin to turn out to be the old wizard, it is now.

WTF is in the tower of Beacon? I mean, the CCT is domed anyways... so I assume Ozpin means those shiny things visible at night?