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VedranTheII wrote: Flashfire212 wrote: Can I just say that I predicted Russel's weapon soon after Volume 1 ended? Ok I’ll bite…how did you do that? The closest hint we got that I can think of was seeing his voice actor dual wield during the second production diary.

Physiology. If you look at every other male student and their weapon, there's a realistic connection to the equipment that they use. It's the girls that have the outrageous weapons.

Jaune has an average build, and uses a sword and shield, a more balanced weapons combination. Ren is lightly built, and uses lighter weapons - the StormFlowers. Cardin is bulky, and uses a weapon that suits a high-level kinetic motion, his mace. Sun is in-between Jaune and Ren in build, and his weapon suits the split between flexibility and strength that such a physical build would grant.

Now, look at Russel. He's just as skinny as Ren, so no big heavy tools for him. So, when working on the first two chapters of my fanfic, I tried to come up with weapons for the remaining members of team CRDL, and Russel screamed "dual-wielded knives" to fit with the more close-quarters style of Team CRDL's designs. In order to fit the RWBY-verse, I made them rocket-knives, so that he could throw them and then have them explode, or use the thrust to help increase the kinetic energy of his stabs, the same way Ruby uses the recoil of Crescent Rose to increase it's cutting potential. And then it turns out that of my three predictions, I was correct in one case - Russel does indeed have knives. So maybe, just maybe, I've got the full prediction right and they shall be rocket knives, but only time shall tell there. I just hold that I predicted Russel had knives before anyone else.