Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-111.68.32.71-20131007122233/@comment-24901923-20140505165648

I've got a think for weaponized gauntlets in my OCs. The first I came up with was RequiemBreeze, which is configured like Yang's Ember Cecilia, except using an armored glove as the base instead of a bracelet. It's built for a human mage, and channels Dust through the hands from an rotating ring of Dust cartridges. I later upgraded RequiemBreeze by coming up with a single-form version that stayed in gauntlet mode and had attached rerebracers(Upper arm armor). The rerebracers had their own cartridge ring that feeds into the gauntlet, allowing the OC to combine Dust types or use more powerful single-element attacks. The mage also now has a set adapted for use as leg armor. GraveClaw, being a set of gauntlets with weaponized bucklers attached, was next, and set the tone for StormDirge and MourningGale. All three work by extending/retracting the bucklers over the hands, as well as sleevegun-like controls, when active. GraveClaw is based on the monsters of the last Riddick movie, and can deploy both pincers and a central blade. It can launch the whole pincer/blade assembly as a grappler, and is used by a geokinetic Bear Faunus OC, who I figured would favor wrestling with opponents. MourningGale and StormDirge are used by a pair of identical twin Wolf Faunus OCs, a telekinetic and healer respectively. MourningGale is a firearm with a disc-magazine, with a retractable blade on the arm parrallel to the "knife" of the hand(Pinky to wrist). It's wielder tends to be a balanced, strategic fighter. StormDirge has an retractable blade mounted above/behind the hand depending on the mode, and relies on a multi-chambered disc magazine behind the blade to charge it with Dust. It can use elemental AOEs from the blades or beams when the blade is retracted. It's wielder tends to fight aggressively to offset his Semblance's lack of offensive power.