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UndyingPhoenix Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
#32651: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:10:30 AM

Not to mention that Roman was actually able to be beaten with correct tactics and teamwork.

His weapon really lends itself to 1 vs 1, hence why he beats Ruby, but is taken down by Blake in the train and RWBY while piloting a Paladin, and struggles against Sun and Blake at the docks. Roman's very vulnerable to anything that catches him off guard or a combined assault.

It's rather fitting and ironic that the style of fighting he's good at is a gentlemanly duel (fitting of his fashion choice) and yet he fights dirty, while also being vulnerable against opponents who use tricks(ironic).

edited 18th Apr '16 10:13:20 AM by UndyingPhoenix

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#32652: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:11:51 AM

to be fair most people are weak to anything that catches them off guard or a combined assault.

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#32654: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:13:38 AM

[up][up] What about a combined assault that catches them off guard?

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#32655: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:14:55 AM

surprisingly enough it wraps around and most people become invincible

except for Amber

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#32656: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:14:58 AM

so far

Cinder: she wants power but also she want to destroy the current social order which she consider Ozpin part off......mmmmmmmmm

Emerald: she was bully into service and is having doubt

Mercury: pretty much a dick

Adam: he said in this declaration of edgyness "We will be the flame of revoluion....consider this, the spark"

Roman: survive

Neo: whatever Roman does.

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UndyingPhoenix Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
#32657: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:21:12 AM

Okay, I wouldn't say he's weak to something that catches him off guard, rather, he's just not good at dealing with anything that isn't a straight on assault.

Also, Melodic Cudgel can't reliably hit multiple opponents, and it's blunt damage anyways. The firing mode is also rather slow, if slightly more destructive than normal. If the explosion is anything to go by, it's his only method of dealing with multiple people directly. We've seen from his fight with Black Sun that he's very good at playing defense against a relentless assault from one person, and uses dirty tricks to gain the upper hand, which is rather hard when you're against two or more people.

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#32658: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:21:41 AM

re: Neo — I'm not sure how you figure she's friends with Roman. The only thing suggesting that is that she's the one to break him out of custody, and that's just as easily explained by the fact that she's the best equipped to infiltrate an enemy facility like that.

re: Emerald — I don't buy the idea that she's willing to go along with destroying humanity just to avoid being poor. We don't know why she follows Cinder because we don't know what she thinks Cinder's endgame is, but she has to know that Cinder has big plans that are bad for basically everyone, seeing as she knows that Cinder's dealing with ridiculous amounts of power (the whole Fall Maiden thing) and tried to destroy one of humanity's four remaining safe havens.

re: Mercury — I suppose it's possible that he's just a psychotic bastard who enjoys killing people and doesn't much care about why, but if that's the case it hasn't really been demonstrated.

re: Cinder — "She wants power" isn't a motivation. She wants power in order to accomplish something. We don't really know what yet, though "destroying humanity" seems like far and away the most likely answer at this point. But even so, we don't know why she wants to do that.

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#32659: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:22:00 AM

So who here thinks Neo will do a heel face turn

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#32660: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:24:18 AM

[up][up]The ONLY emotion Roman ever shows that's not "snarky bastard" is when Neo gets Mary Poppins'd by Ruby. Plus, when Neo broke Roman out she brought him his hat.

If she wasn't close to him, neither of those would have happened.

[up]Prolly after a fight with Ruby where she finds out Roman got eaten by a Grimm and not killed by Ruby.

[down]You know what I meant. His reaction was the only real emotion that wasn't "dick".

edited 18th Apr '16 10:28:31 AM by BlackSunNocturne

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#32661: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:25:09 AM

[up][up][up]you see her reaction after seen the destruction of vale? also there a brief dialogue where Cinder hit her, she play along becuase she dosent have other place....let see what happen in the future

Cinder want to tear down the order, and its implied Ozpin have something with it, why we dont know.

[up]Actually we see Roman display diferent emotion: he is a bad boss to white fang recruit, he is charming with faunus in the reunion, he try to display force with emerald and Mercury and is quite afried of Cinder, that is way more than Ciner being faux evil all the freaking time.

edited 18th Apr '16 10:27:41 AM by unknowing

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#32662: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:27:18 AM

[up][up][up][up]It's pretty easy to infer that Roman and Neo were close when the only time she ever speaks and the only time Roman show's any emotion other than snark is when she's thrown off the plane. Plus the fact that she was always with him whenever crap went down.

As for Emerald.. eh. We don't know enough about her to know why she's with Cinder. It could very well be that Cinder was the only person to ever show her the time of day.

Merc is almost certainly a bloodthirsty sociopath. Being the son of a (probably abusive) legendary assassin would do that to ya.

We'll find out Cinder's motivations eventually. Keeping them mysterious is a common literary tool.

[up][up][up]I highly doubt it.

edited 18th Apr '16 10:27:53 AM by EpicBleye

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#32663: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:32:18 AM

I've got to thinking...

Are certain types of weapons more effective against Aura than others? Would a bashing weapon be more effective at reducing Aura than a slashing or piercing weapon? Does a larger, wider impact zone work better than something smaller and thinner?

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#32664: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:37:08 AM

[up]blunt object are better.....because this is light show, where sword are useless until plot demand it

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#32665: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:48:47 AM

So who thinks that team RWBY have killed peoplle

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#32666: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:49:26 AM

I ask because the two instances of Aura being drained completely were caused by blunt trauma. Yang's punches, and Cinder knocking Pyrrha around after Pyrrha used most of her Aura on her Semblance.

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#32667: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:49:47 AM

[up][up]why on earth would anyone think that?

edited 18th Apr '16 10:50:00 AM by EpicBleye

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#32668: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:54:28 AM

They aren't registered to Kill, yet.

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#32669: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:55:09 AM

I don't think the weapon type matters; both Yang and Cinder hit pretty hard.

As for the villains, Emerald seems to be having second thoughts, but I will call bull on any attempts at Heel Face Turning her without a solid, solid beatdown and a long time spent in prison. Merc's just a dick.

Adam is a terrorist, for lack of a better term, though he still answers - or answered - to someone above, since there are other White Fang leaders out there. Now that Cinder is presumably frozen he's free to do whatever and I can't see him being too happy about anyone trying to rescue her out of that situation, especially after being forced to bend his knee before her.

@RWBY killing people: Presumably some WF mooks did not make it out of the train wreckage, but it's probably kind of a stretch to call that RWBY did the killing.

edited 18th Apr '16 10:55:55 AM by FergardStratoavis

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#32670: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:55:20 AM

[up][up][up][up]is a thing on the show not waiting to get bloddy so swrods are out against people, pretty simple actually

[up]Yang should be in prision or having criminal record after the yellow trailer, yay for protagonist morality!

edited 18th Apr '16 10:56:31 AM by unknowing

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#32671: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:56:34 AM

Yang and Blake would like to have a word with you.

@Yang specifically: She might very well have, or perhaps Junior knew better than to bother.

edited 18th Apr '16 10:57:27 AM by FergardStratoavis

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#32672: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:57:09 AM

Neo's first appearance was with Roman, and they demonstrated a fair bit of familiarity then and afterwards. Like it's been said, the only time Roman displayed any emotion was when Neo was hurtled off to uncertain doom — and he went berzerk after that. My personal headcanon is that she's his favorite niece or something, kinda fits their interactions.

I wouldn't say Roman really had trouble with Sun and Blake — they got a couple of hits in, but for the most part he seemed to be handling them without too much trouble.

Emerald appears to idolize Cinder in some regard. I'd say that her motivation started out as simply getting off the streets, but grew into some sort of hero (villain?) worship of her, but she's starting to get cold feet despite her malicious nature.

Mercury likes fighting, fucking with people and grinning smugly. Ample supply of all three.

Salem's probably some primeval evil who has a very personal grudge with Ozpin. Winter Maiden reveal pending.

Cinder wants to destroy humanity by all appearances, but there's clearly some deeper motivation other than misanthropy behind it. At very best, she's a Well-Intentioned Extremist.

Adam hates all humans, and he appears to have been consistently Jumping Off the Slippery Slope with regards to his extremism. He's an unstable psychopath and apparently anything that harms humanity is fine by him, not to mention his obsession with Blake. Dude's bad news.

Kevin was having a really nice nap that got rudely interrupted.


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#32673: Apr 18th 2016 at 10:59:56 AM

[up][up]Adam stab blake and not blood, he cut yang arm and....gold? maybe is raw energy but I dont think is how bleeding works.

Also it was dramatic, that is how it works

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#32674: Apr 18th 2016 at 11:01:59 AM

I dunno, they both seemed to be bleeding somewhat the very next episode. The gold aura was either symbolic or, well, Aura trying to patch up the damage, but after that Yang was left with a bloody stump.

edited 18th Apr '16 11:02:23 AM by FergardStratoavis

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#32675: Apr 18th 2016 at 11:09:42 AM

[up]maybe, I going with her aura try to patch up as white trailer show you can damage the person without depleting the aura

but thing is, unless is plot important, sword do shit

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