Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-1839918-20160301193534/@comment-24757748-20160306073600

ChishioKunrin wrote: Phantomlink brings up a great point. A lot of the characters' weapons are colors other than silver or brass/bronze/gold-ish/whatever, despite being made of metal. In the examples he provided:


 * Ren's guns, including their telescoping blades, are green


 * Nora is kind of iffy because I think those pink things are literally the grenades she fires


 * Blake's weapon is almost entirely black


 * Yang's gauntlets are yellow with black lines


 * Pyrrha's spear is bright-ass red and yellow-ish


 * Ruby's scythe is red and black

Also, I WILL REITERATE MY QUOTE FROM MILES "CO-WRITER-OF-RWBY" LUNA:

'''"It's not necessarily a sword thing, more just like "Oh, he's strong! Oh, he's a scary man!""'''

'''NOT A SWORD THING. MORE JUST LIKE "HE'S STRONG."'''

Case closed. The color shemes are definitely a factor, so I'll give you that.

As for what Miles said, "strong" could be interpreted to mean not only physical strength, but also the strength of Adam's Aura and/or Semblance. The way he used the term makes me think he was using it in a broader sense, like "This man is very threatening and dangerous!"

He also didn't say the sword wasn't a "thing", just that it wasn't the determining factor in allowing Adam to cut through Yang's Aura. "It's not necessarily a sword thing" doesn't mean "The sword is irrelevent and has no special properties", a more exact way to say it would be, "The sword may or may not be special in some way, but in either case his strength and technique were more important to the attack."

As for what these "special properties" could be, I still think Wilt is enhanced in some way. As put forth by ItsJustAvey, it wouldn't make much sense for these red "Vibroblades" to not be in common usage, so that leaves two apparent options:

1. it's been enhanced with Dust

or

2. Adam's Semblance has something to do with it.

I think it would make more sense if the latter were true since it not only stays consistent with what Miles said, but we've already seen Adam do a super-charged attack in the "Black" trailer in the form of the "Moonslice", which seems to be Adam's Semblance (or a variation of it, anyways).

Furthermore, it would explain that weird "sparking" effect it has when this energized blade makes contact with Blake's inert blade, since this energy seems to be rather unstable if not kept under control.

By the way, I'm now almost completely certain that Qrow and Raven's weapons aren't under the same effects. Although Raven's seems to be similiar to Myrtenaster as I've stated before, and I'm guessing Qrow's weapon is just super sharp. As for the Henchmen, I think those are just red blades without any real special properties that they use for, uh, intimidation purposes?