Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-3965075-20150620202833/@comment-24993958-20150627114136

Cyrania de Bergerac wrote: I was trying for the prodigy route... BINGO. There, right there, that’s your problem, or more specifically that’s MY problem.

Here’s the deal, we already have prodigies in the show. We have our 4 time in a row champion Pyrrha at 17 (meaning she won one at around 13), we have Weiss who has used more mage spells than Cinder and Glynda combined at 17, and we have Ruby who is around their level at 15 and was allowed to jump 2 years of a military school. And even so, I cannot picture any of them killing a grimm at 9…why? Because around that age Yang, who is in itself a powerhouse at 17, was about to get herself AND Ruby killed by a grimm while searching for her mom, and she was defenseless.

By trying to write a preteen (someone that didn’t hit puberty and gain considerable muscle mass in the process) killing a grimm, you are effectively trying to out prodigy every, single, canon prodigy we have seen in the show, at the same time, which as far as I’m concerned is a sure fire way to write a Sue.

I don’t care how you slice it, until the body starts to develop and they gain muscle mass, no amount of training would …or rather should, let you kill something 5 times your size that specifically exists to kill you, unless the kid is holding an infinity sword that they can aim properly.