Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-172.250.39.94-20131203204915/@comment-169.139.115.67-20141209163735

CaptainBarracuda wrote: There's a problem with Ruby's weapon, Crescent Rose: it has two very close blades. The goal of using a blade is to put a lot of pressure on as little a surface as possible, but having two blades that close will simply disperse the pressure applied by them across the surface between the blades.

To help you picture that, imagine a single sharp blade placed parralel to the ground. Now, you take a sheet of paper over it end pull the sheet toward the ground and doing so, slicing it. The pressure was applied along a single line on the fabric allowing for a clean cut. Now, repeat the experiment but before that, add a second sharp blade close to the first one. You'll notice that this time cutting (or ripping, that's what's gonna happen) the paper will be much harder than the first time and that a rectangle had formed on the sheet of paper whilst you were trying to slice it. That rectangle was formed by the distribution of the pressure applied by the blades on the sheet.

In short, the slicing ability of Crescent Rose is greatly impaired by it's twin blades. I can disagree slightly with this. The 2 blades have no effect on slicing capabilities since she swings it more often than not. In fact, they would actually widen the cut since the single blade would transfer to the split blades in mid cut. They only do as you say in the case of her execution technique(when she killed the first beowolf in the trailer), and that would be bypassed somewhat since she augments its power with a shot to propel the blade back through the enemy.