Talk:Katsune "Kitty" Akatsuya/@comment-1309458-20141113161600/@comment-23929867-20141113192951

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I've been planning to have art done of Kitty, but I just haven't had the money for it. I may someday, but not now.

You mentioned her weapon. That's actually the second weapon I gave her. The first was a chainsword, which I felt didn't really suit the feel of RWBY. However, having been proven wrong near the season finale, I'm curious as to what you would say about her old chainsword (which she also used as a lockpick).

"Heaven's Maw is an Anti-Armor Chainsword Bolt-Action Rifle (ACKBAR). It has three forms. The first is a form used solely for storage, in which it folds up in half to make it easier to carry. It has no combat utility in this form, except possibly bludgeoning someone with it. In this form it can be placed in a carrying container that looks kind of like a heavy-duty metal briefcase painted in red and gold warning stripes. The briefcase is locked with a six-digit combination lock.

Heaven's Maw's second form is its ranged form, in which it resembles a chainsword with a gun barrel stuck on top of it, under the safety housing, and a pistol-grip handle. In this form, it can be used as a saw-toothed sword, but its primary function is used as an anti-armor assault rifle. In both this form and its melee form (see below), it uses high-caliber rounds as ammo, and has a canister of red dust that powers the chainsaw component in its chainsaw form. The weapon is box-fed, with the magazine located on the bottom towards what would be the cross guard and swept back diagonally, and Kitty carries additional armor-piercing rounds for particularly resiliant enemies. It has a pistol-like grip, the kind normally found on standard gunblades, and a bipod hidden under the safety housing. A pair of gold exhausts decorate either side of the area where the chainsword meets the pistol grip, and spew fire whenever Kitty uses her semblance.

Finally, the safety housing and gun barrel on Heaven's Maw can retract, turning it into a melee form more closely resembling a chainsaw. In this form, the rifle portion can still be used for recoil via the exhausts, and the housing opens up at the top and folds to the sides of the chainsaw, leaving the chain almost entirely exposted for maximum cutting power. In this form, for all practical purposes, it is a chainsaw."