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Sounds like Coco might be getting worfed to me, if before she was portrayed as strong and now suddenly she's having trouble for no apparent reason.
Edited by NoirGrimoir SPATULA, Supporters of Page Altering To Urgently Lead to Amelioration (supports not going through TRS for tweaks and minor improvements.)What do you mean by "organized fight"? If it's just practice with her friends/allies, I don't think she'd want to mow them down or cause massive destruction. It's probably just plain holding back or using blanks...
Edited by Malco My DA account... I draw stuff sometimes!If it's against monsters (the Grimm) then that level of destruction is kinda justified. If it's just a tournament, you wouldn't like Casualty in the Ring so she (I guess) goes with a weaker set of bullets.
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Situaton: I'm looking for a trope to describe a RWBY fight in which Coco, a girl who totes around an incredibly powerful gatling gun, is fighting opponents who hide in trees. In an earlier fight, the gatling gun caused massive destruction and utterly shredded powerful armored opponents, literally—as in, into dozens of pieces. However, in her second fight, the bullets weren't able to do much more than mow down grass. When put against the trees her enemy was hiding in, they failed to destroy any of them.
It doesn't have to be about selectively powerful bullets, though that's what I'm aiming for—it could've just been that she switched to a less powerful set of rounds, since it was an organized fight. However, I don't think that's the case, or if it is, power selectivity would still apply, because it was pointed out that gatling guns put rounds out with incredible force.
TL;DR: One time a gatling gun causes mass destruction, the second time it can't even mow down sparse woods.
Thanks.