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WC-83 wrote: What is our stance on armor for OCs? Like how do we figure if it's a thing that even needs to be present or not? Depends on their role. Take Jaune for example. He's obviously more of a defensive melee fighter, with no ranged options and lacking in the mobility department. Seeing as his job is to block attacks anyways, it makes sense that he wears armor in addition to having Aura. Despite this, his armor is still pretty basic, only consisting of a chestpiece and shoulderguards.

Characters who rely on speed or high mobility don't wear any armor however, nor do characters who fight primarily at range. The only exception I can think of is Pyrrha, and even then her armor was just as barebones as Jaune's and mostly served for the looks department.

The only example of a character in the show who wore full body armor was that one Atlas dude from the Vytal Festival Final Round lineup, who was supposedly supposed to be a reference to Halo. I can only assume his armor itself was also a weapon, or maybe had functions within it to aid with mobility.