Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20181126150808/@comment-25110963-20190125194832

I don't mean to criticize your OC choices, Purpur, but specifically choosing a non lethal weapon to fight monsters is a rather poor choice from the start, regardless of motive. The point of most, if not all weapons for Huntsmen or even fighters in general in RWBY is to kill Grimm in some capacity. Even Glynda's riding crop, a poor combat weapon by normal mean, augments her telekinetic abilities to a lethal point through it. Your baton explanation does not. Steel tipped, you say? That means very little in a fictional setting like Remnant. Grimm also have armored plating and protrusions. I can imagine a scenario with your baton at a Beringal, and I doubt it can do much in terms of killing blows.

Now, a counterpoint to this can be Neon's nunchuks or Flynt's trumpet, or even the cattle prod of Nolan Porfirio, but the last one is not meant to be taken seriously. Cattle prod is an odd choice. Support weapons are good and all, but if you did that as the main purpose, that's also a poor choice. They have to be able to help the user defend themselves as well.

If you want to keep this weapon idea, then at least have a more lethal mode for the baton. Something that could take on at least mediums by itself. Like a retractable blade at the end of the baton or something? It's up to you so long as it is lethal enough for a Grimm of moderate consequence.