Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-97.95.138.90-20140330004141/@comment-4148373-20140331232521

Darkcloud1111 wrote: However the world of RWBY has schools dedicated to teaching teenages of all people how to use Aura, Weapons, and tactics used to fight Grimm. I would consider Jaune not knowing what Aura is as more of him being a idiot with no combat experience. You also have to consider that there are entire stores that sell a product that could explode if someone sneezes too close to it. Plus Beacon is able to use giant air ships as school buses. Even if they are supposed to be an elite school, giant air ships seem like a bit much. Plus you have people like Roman who can apparently just buy airjets for the White Fang to use or maybe the WF had them laying around.

All that aside, all I'm saying is that the main enemy of humans in the world of RWBY are the Grimm and weapons seem to have evolved in their world purposely as a way to fight them. Some Grimm have strong armor that bullets can't break, but a sword or scythe when held by an expert can be used to hit the chinks in their armor more accurately or to defend themselves at close range when a gun wouldn't be useful. This isn't just Hunters mind you, but Junior had his own weapon and so does Roman. Sun Wukong may not even be a student of another school considering he was a stowaway, but he still has his own gun-chucks. I'm sure that if regular people wanted to make a weapon like Hunters they could, but why would they when trained people already defend me? If you are either A. A criminal (Junior, Roman) or B. Someone without a set home, like Sun. Wandering around in this world seems to be rather dangerous. Although, thinking on it, Sun's a little on the shady side too, so maybe it's mostly the law-enforcers and criminals who are armed.