Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160121121228/@comment-27592203-20160121180710

Phantomlink959 wrote: We don't know the context of Mercury's legs. Besides, if you go directly wired you don't waste your semblance slot.

Having a prosthetic limb i jumped straight to lacking a limb, because that is the obvious, i misunderstood what you meant. In that scenario you could go a Spartan style neural implant. I'm also not sure how prosthetic limbs work in the RWBYverse. In FMA they use electrical impulses from a person's nerves to make the inner mechanisms work. I assume, by the way it was described, that automails have intricate clockwork like parts. Being designed originally as weapons, I wonder how those don't keep breaking down every few days or so.