Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20141028201230/@comment-25185936-20141101233843

I have a few counterarguments. Hear me out here.

1. Character similarities: It's entirely possible that they took WFL's model and used it for Yatsu considering they didn't even think of him until they needed a team for Velvet, so they reused WFL's model probably to save time. Also, I don't understand the hair argument to be totally honest considering WFL's mask is covering up most of his face so you can't see hairlines at all. If someone would like to elaborate that would be nice. He is also pretty massive and I don't think that WFL reaches his height, he seemed closer in height to Weiss than Yatsu would have considering he towers over Velvet by a large margin.

2. The crash: Not only would he have had to escape the wreckage almost immediately, he would have had to make it all the way back to Beacon, which looked like a pretty lengthy distance from the crash site as seen from where JNPR was before departing on their mission. Now I acknowledge that it's totally possible that he was teleported away somehow but I just don't see that he could have showed up at Beacon with no questions asked regarding possible injuries inflicted. Then, ontop of all of that, having to get into all of his armor and hide his chainsaw in exchange for his sword and make it to the site in that little bit of time just seems really extensive and unlikely to me.

3. His weapon: Why would he switch weapons? He has the broadswoard that definitely does more than enough damage, why switch it for the chainsaw? I can see one reason would be for recognition but like I feel like that's very complicated. Also, just having large weapons doesn't make them the same character. That's like saying Ozpin and Roman are the same because they both have canes. Bad example I know but it's kind of a poor argument.

I don't feel like talking about the tattoo because that has already been covered enough.