Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160609071212/@comment-24534644-20160705235543

Something I never understoof about chakram weapons, at least here in RWBY. I get it's cool to throw a sharp discus at an enemy and bisect them from a distance, but... how to they return? In other mediums it's either hand-waved, or explained by means of magic. But hand-waving doesn't work in a setting like RWBY, and magic doesn't exist (at least not in a way where any acceptable OC can use it).

Most people I see say "it returns like a boomerang" and I shake my head at that because in order for something to return "boomerang-style", it has to be SHAPED appropriately. A solid disc/hollow ring is not a boomerang, it's a frisbee. Frisbees don't return to the thrower after being thrown (or they're not supposed to, at any rate). Other people use the "magentic gloves" excuse, and I shake my head at that as well because 1: how does the chakram even leave the hand in the first place if it's being held by a magnetized glove, and 2: do these people realize how downright absurdly powerful a magnetic piece of equipment would have to be to yank a metal object that's either in mid-flight or lodged in an object back to the hand from who-knows-how-far away? Not to mention anything else metal in the vicinity would be attracted as well; unless it's Pyrrha's semblance, you can't do selective magnetism.