Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24901923-20150922051229/@comment-4010415-20150922163936

I'm pretty sure that white Dust is earth, which made Blake's rock clone. I know the color doesn't line up very well. Literally the only reason I think white = earth is through process of elimination, thanks to the Dust clip Weiss handed Blake (which, by the way, had the same exact six colors that Weiss has in Myrtenaster).

In order to show you why I think white is earth/stone, I'll have to explain why I believe the other colors in that Dust clip do other things. So... what six colors of Dust vials were in the clip?


 * Red


 * Dark blue


 * Yellow


 * White


 * Purple


 * Cyan

We've known since volume 1 that red = fire, dark blue = ice, and yellow = lightning, thanks to the scene where Ruby sneezes on red, dark blue, and yellow Dust, resulting in a fiery explosion with ice crystals and electricity in it.

I suspect purple Dust may be responsible for the clone Blake made that had an inky black and purple effect. That's not the normal effect for her clones, and it's the only time one of her clones has ever done that. The rest of the time, they just become blurry and fade away. In Search and Destroy, a Beowolf jumped through her clone, and there was a white and light purple effect similar to the coloring of the Aura arc she used against Roman in No Brakes.

Purple may be darkness or something. If so, that's why she made the clone directly at Roman's eye level. She wanted the dark haze to block his sight of her.

Then, there's cyan. What does cyan do? I'm not completely sure what to call it. All I know is, it can be used to make a shield of some kind, and I'm tempted to think it may also be responsible for those cyan streaks Weiss fired at the giant Nevermore in Players and Pieces.

See, in Painting the Town, when Yang tried to punch Neo, there were cyan shockwaves radiating out from her umbrella. I thought this was exclusive to Neo, until Weiss used Myrtenaster to draw a circle in the air and there were cyan shockwaves when the WF Lt struck the circle. If at least two characters can do the same exact thing, it's not Semblance, so it's either Aura or Dust. Considering Aura shields do not look like that, and considering the coloring of the shockwaves plus the fact that Weiss has cyan Dust in Myrtenaster, I assume it's cyan Dust.

If it is Dust, then where did it come from, in Neo's case? The top of her umbrella's shaft appears to have a hole in it. I initially thought it doubled as a gun or a flare gun like Roman's cane, but it's possible that she expells Dust from it to do things like create a powerful shield.

So, with the other five colors covered, that means there is only one color left in that clip that could be stone: white.

And we know that Blake could choose which color she wanted to use at that moment. She didn't have to go in order. The order that the colors are in is:


 * Red (Fire)


 * Dark blue (Ice)


 * Yellow (Lightning)


 * White (Stone)


 * Purple (Darkness)


 * Cyan (???)

The clones she made were in the following order:


 * Fire


 * Stone


 * Darkness


 * Ice

So, she went red, white, purple, dark blue, completely skipping over lightning and not using cyan.

TL;DR White Dust is Earth/Rock.

Hopefully, since there will be Dust crystals scattered around the tournament arena, that will help us better understand what the colors do.