Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25316824-20160917214234

Consider Mercury's prosthetic limbs. We are made to believe that Mercury's prosthetic legs are a big secret and certianly if anybody knew about them then it would have drastically changed the course of the story.

Consider this question. How does Mercury get past metal detectors? In various parts of the season we see Mercury and Emerald in the stands and one has to assume due to the politically charged nature of the Vytal festival and the large concentration of civlians that this would be an ideal target for malevolent personas. This connection is explored in "Breach" when Ironwood is given control over the defense of the Vytal festival after the failure of Ozpin's huntresses and huntsmen to prevent the catastrophy. The festival must have been a large target and everybody knew it especially after the events of Volume 2.

So why metal detectors were absent from screening civilians is a plot hole. Anybody could have put a bomb in their underwear and blown up many civilians in the stands. It makes no sense why an advanced military like Ironwood's would neglect a clear security loophole. Ironwood should have been sacked for gross negligence and probably will after the events of Volume 3.

Again, Yang's arrest only makes sense if Mercury's legs were a secret and keeping something like that a secret during a high security event such as the Vytal Festival seems impossible.

That being said I also am considering the implications of gun control in remnant and may post my thoughts on how it might work inbetween now and Volume 4. 