Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24032889-20181007212545/@comment-25396609-20181015200617

All inanimate objects can have a "personality" so to speak. Be it due to unique design aspects (things that make them stand out from the crowd) or a result of behavioral quirks. For example, having to perform some unusual action to get a coffee machine to work properly.

I believe what Dez Keys is referring to is the first of these examples. RWBY has MANY weapons, and they tend to fall into a fairly basic set of archetypes. Weapons like Neon's nunchaku, Reese's hoverboard, and Flynt's trumpet somewhat betray these archetypes without really breaking them. They are different in some way than weapons with a similar function.