Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-174.93.53.97-20130826071537/@comment-17720343-20130828053330

Advancedpwng wrote: BenRG wrote: When in spear mode, Xiflelin's rifle barrel becomes the spear shaft. Pyrrha fires the rifle just as she throws the spear and the recoil from what is a high-calibre rifle shell boosts her throw power. Ruby and Yang both use similar tricks in their weapons to boost the power and speed of their strikes. Alright, you have a solid point there. But the hand position before she launches the rifle is the correct way to hold a spear, which may or may not negate your argument. Moving your hand from javelin throwing position to quickly reaching under the spear and pulling the trigger isn't quite sensable. On top of that, the barrel of the rifle part is facing BACKWARD, meaning that when Pyrrha throws it, the TRIGGER is also facing BACKWARD. This also means that is she were to fire the rifle as she throws it, the trigger has to be something unique compared to a regular gun, unless the trigger changes shape along with it. But I agree with your statement (BTW the Xiflelin seems to be in a form of a hunting rifle, and from my knowledge, the highest calibre a normal, unmodified hunting rifle can handle is a .308. Then again this is RWBY, so things may not always be what they seem). My theory is that the cartridges in RWBY use dust instead of gunpowder, which would account for the massive recoil that Ruby and the other characters harness for combat, and its possible that they could use aura in some fancy manner to control there weapons, like mentally controlling there weapons (as is my theory with Yang's punchy shootyfist thingys (forgot the name), or possibly using aura as a physical extension of themselves (as is my theory with adams long-range slices) to 'reach' the trigger when they would normally not be physically able.