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Winter's Swords are Winter Schnee's weapons of choice. They made their first appearance in the Volume 3 Opening.

Description[]

Winter's Swords in their initial form are combined into one sword. The sword has a single edged, slightly curved blade. The sword's hilt sports a wide, crescent shaped guard that envelops the hand of the person that wields it, purposefully protecting the hand and fingers from any angle. The hilt has a spiral design etched down it that stops at an orb shaped pommel similar to that of The Long Memory. There is a trigger located between the hilt and the guard that opens the hilt. The lower side of the hilt sports a light blue component that is embedded or inserted onto/into the side.

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Closeup on the sword's mechanism

When Winter's sword hilt is opened, it reveals a second hilt within. This hilt is a part to another sword which is sheathed in the hollow fuller of the sword. Together they resemble upper-class dueling sabers. Winter wields both weapons when separated, and fights in a style similar to fencing with a sword and a main gauche, or parrying dagger. She wields the second sword in her left hand and the main sword in her right, occasionally in a reverse grip.

Like her sister, Weiss Schnee, Winter wields her weapons in conjunction with her Semblance. Each blade has one type of Dust in it.[1]

After her battle with Cinder Fall in "The Enemy of Trust", Winter drops the secondary blade off of the Atlas "Donut", into the Solitas tundra.

After being reassigned as the new leader of the Ace Operatives in "Amity", Winter either regained or replaced the secondary blade of her weapon and uses both throughout the Volume.

Trivia[]

  • According to the Volume 3 DVD Director's Commentary, Winter's weapon used to be two individual rapiers until Kerry Shawcross came up with the idea of having one sword hidden in the other one, and Weiss based Myrtenaster off of it but with improvements to make it her own.[1]
  • In Amity Arena, Winter's Queen Winter outfit paints the whole weapon gold.
  • It is one of the only major characters' weapons whose name was not revealed in The World of RWBY: The Official Companion.

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Volume 3 DVD Directors' Commentary Chapter 3
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