Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25086632-20151123071037/@comment-70.27.67.203-20151123165027

Hi, Cyrania!

I love your ideas for the weapons and semblances. 'Neutral invisibility' is so much better than blocking the guy out and having sunlight flow through him. Edom's cocktail shaker turning into a weapon, as Oobleck's thermos does, is genius. All we have to decide is what the thermos spews at the enemy. We can't  just copy Oobleck's fire. Oddly enough, I wondered if a hard flow of water, such as from fire hoses, might do. Now that I've written it I want to give it to John Lebrun (no, no, I don't; the dust-fueled umbrella is way better and with the different colors of dust, he can do almost anything). If they team up, freezing the water blast can create some impressive effects.

RWBYfying the sword cane. Pyrrha's sword becomes a spear, a long distance weapon. Roman's cane is a gun-like weapon and can hook people or things and draw them to him. So it does a long distance job too. If the sword can separate from the cane, we might get two weapons, which is more or less what Blake has. Spread the cane out and you have a shield. Let the sword be both the close-in fighting tool it was meant to be, and extend it into a fire sniper rifle for distance. Ruby isn't the only sniper any longer; Remnant can support one more.

Vernet is kind of a combo Ren and Yang. Yang uses her bracers as a ready supply of dust for fire shots. Ren seems to rely a lot on his soul, but his weapon is great. Up close he uses ninja-like methods of battle, at a distance he throws or shoots something at the enemy. Copying Yang's fire feels wrong, but giving water to Edom removes it from Vernet. How about wind? Wind, fire, water, a good spread of abilities. If Vernet has wind he can not only use it for gales, dust devils and the like; he can fly. Well, not grow wings, but riding the thermals. And I just put Lebrun's dust into the earth category, so we have them all: earth, wind, fire and water.

What do you think? Did I forget something you said or did while I was thinking about this? I hope not!