Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24901923-20150701220818/@comment-25555436-20150701222346

I think you should use the Enter button more.

The problem with this is, that at the moment Ruby has no reason to get a second weapon. CR already has close and long-range capabilities, good-enough rate-of-fire and power, good reach, and Ruby is able to swing it effectively and quickly with no problem at all (especially in open spaces), especially with her Semblance, so the "building momentum" part is not a problem either.

The "major damage or bone-breaking" aspects are irrelevant. Ruby is a Hunter, her job is to hunt Grimm. Are you really going to worry about a Grimm's safety? The same to non-Grimm enemies. If one needs to capture a target, she can just hit them with the back of the scythe, the non-bladed side, like she did to Junior's mooks in ep1. KOes them but doesn't kill them. Broken bones at worst hurt, but hardly can kill.

The "tight spaces" problem is not truly a problem. Look at the other end of CR, the one without the curved blade. Look at it. It's a spear as well. Ruby can easily turn the weapon around and stab things with it. And spears are pretty useful in tight spaces.

Now, the problem with having a secondary weapon is this: CR is a scythe. A two-handed scythe. How can she pull out a weapon while using her 2 hands to carry it? Unless she drops it for a moment which is a bad idea, or tries to momentarily hold it in one hand in the meantime, which can be difficult while moving.

A close-combat weapon wouldn't be necesary. "High attack speed"? Ruby already has that, perfectly fine in that department. Kamas and Axes's usefulness is already covered by the scythe. A shotgun wouldn't be too different from just switching CR to Rifle mode and firing (which in that form she can carry in 1 hand). And despite the bullets being spread, a shotgun can hardly hit multiple targets unless they are close together, and the more spreaded out the bullets are, the weaker the damage.

TL;DR: Ruby doesn't need any secondary weapons.