Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20161223214823/@comment-28345522-20161224125312

Except there's a reason why both Qrow and Ruby use scythes: Qrow passed on his knowledge and skills of scythe fighting to Ruby. Yang and Hazel's weapons would similar for no reason.

Plus there's the question of how gauntlets would make a flexible, close-fitting, full armor force field that interacts with dust. Sure it's a sci-fi fantasy setting, but that still sounds ridiculous for Remnant. Airships didn't even have large scale shields, why would a smaller scale one be possible?