Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27425734-20160112054727/@comment-26397825-20160112070141

RWBY....actually has quite a bit of science to it. It is certainly less high fantasy than you seem to think it is. Dust is a powder with elemental attachments, that when manipulated by the natural energy your body generates can create elemental effects. They use proper physics, don't have actual spells, and the only fantasy type things are their semblances; which can be explained away with ESP and natural phenomena created by the aura of a person, which is what it is, and the Maiden powers, which is actual magic.

In fact, Monty was very adamant that Aura and Dust are not magic.

With the weapons design; all weapons are designed in such a way that they could work in real life if we had the technology to make them. Grimm are an unknown to us right now, this is true.

It's more a sci-fi-fantasy show than a high fantasy show, and so we should treat it like one. And that includes thinking of the sci-fi ways they can do things.