Thread:Kirito Rose/@comment-25110963-20160519052819/@comment-26397825-20160523032528

We have discussed this before - and by we I mean those of us who frequent to OC threads. We have discussed this multiple times in fact.

The consensus we have reached every time is that scythes are allowed, as long as the user is either so reclusive there's not way Ozpin would have heard of him, or from a different kingdom that hasn't done anything to put him in the spotlight yet, or simply isn't that good at using it yet. That last point could be because the scythe is a recent addition to the weapon, or because the user is only young, or because the user has focused on the other aspects of the weapon over the scythe mode.

They're not outright banned, you just have to handle them correctly.