It seemed like a good idea at the time.

People give Shinn too much shit for this. It might have worked if the palm cannons were stronger and it was really his only option in that position. If he used his shields or sabers to block he would have been locked in and Athrun could have used his leg sabers to chop him up and if he backed off to try to gain distance Athrun shoots him with his hands free cannons. And while we already had the massive arguement of whether Destiny can use it's cannon hands free, it can't aim very well without them where as IJ's cannons can swivel freely. So it was really his only option to take him out once he was stuck in that position.

Shit would've worked if he was still the MC.

>>23346052
I don't think he was aware of the leg sabers at that point, I think Assram only uses them just that one time to completely brutalize Destiny.

>>23346052
>if he backed off to try to gain distance Athrun shoots him with his hands free cannons.
How about backing off and putting up your beam shields to block any oncoming fire? That's not even getting into the fact that Destiny was able to zoom around and block Kira's fire at Orb.
>>23346118
Athrun used them to block the beam boomerangs at Orb.

>>23346052
Let's be blunt. It didn't work because of pure plot BS.

Destiny Spec III should have beam hands

It just doesn't feel right to have a character try to do something and it turns out it just doesn't work that way. Like you're writing it, it's your choice whether it works or not. It's either really stupid or really smart of them purely based on if you want it to work.

I dunno, it's like if someone jumped up and tried to do a cool epic sword spin and then they just drop their beam sword and someone else says "what are you, stupid? the manipulators don't work like that". It'd be cool and smart if they did work like that though, and why would a character not actually know if they could anyway? Feels meta.

Didn't the Palma Fiocina punch through Destroy armour earlier in the series?

>>23346207
>It just doesn't feel right to have a character try to do something and it turns out it just doesn't work that way. Like you're writing it, it's your choice whether it works or not.
It's a Fukuda thing. He oftentimes talks about the story as if his creative decisions are more a matter of chance rather than his actions.