#it's also technically another parallel she has with Yang - losing half of her weapon and getting grievously injured

[sir-adamus]

it's always been kind of interesting that Winter is one of the only major characters without a named weapon (even in the World of RWBY book they're just called Winter's Swords), which could feed into how she sees herself as a machine - her self-worth only extending as far as she can be useful, she doesn't see the weapon as a part of herself but just a tool

this is also illustrated by her losing the smaller sword during the fight over Mantle in volume 7, and come volume 8 it's evidently been replaced (because good luck finding a small sword when there's other shit going on); again, an illustration of how ultimately everyone and everything is replaceable in Ironwood's machine

[hubakon1368]

#it's also technically another parallel she has with Yang - losing half of her weapon and getting grievously injured #though where Yang got to spend some time recovering and had to adapt to a new weapon #Winter was shoved into an exoskeleton and just got a replacement for her lost equipment with no time to adjust

Preserving @sir-adamus' tags

it's always been kind of interesting that Winter is one of the only major characters without a named weapon (even in the World of RWBY book they're just called Winter's Swords), which could feed into how she sees herself as a machine - her self-worth only extending as far as she can be useful, she doesn't see the weapon as a part of herself but just a tool

this is also illustrated by her losing the smaller sword during the fight over Mantle in volume 7, and come volume 8 it's evidently been replaced (because good luck finding a small sword when there's other shit going on); again, an illustration of how ultimately everyone and everything is replaceable in Ironwood's machine