Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14610890-20140105053250/@comment-14610890-20140106043234

I see a lot of mention of chainsaws when it comes to ideas for RWBY weapons, they're not my favorite to be honest. Too much of the complex machinery is part of the individual weapon, not the original design.

To put it another way, since that sentence likely didn't make much sense, look at Cresent Rose: it's a sniper rifle and a scythe, neither of those two things are very elaborte items on their own,  the creative, complex part, is the design that the creator came up with to combine the two.

A chain saw requires a lot of machinery and a motor and so you already have to much complexity before you've mixed in another weapon or let it transform.

However, the comment above that may be on to something, I have mixed feelings about a whip that can become either rigid or flexible so it can be either a staff or a whip, which was the way I pictured a whip/staff even if it wasn't what you were going for but I think that if we were to include a whip, that would be a good way to do it. Or perhaps a cable that shoots out and attaches to things a la Attack on Titan that doubles as a whip.

I like that last idea because it combines attacking and mobility like many RWBY weapons.