Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160402201256/@comment-27450328-20160415214601

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Kaptainbradukk wrote:

And about the "Ray losing his arm" part, his father was a renowned scientist who wanted to make a few tests on his son and his (at the time) unstable semblance, which cost Ray an arm. Even if his dad buildt him a new one with a semblance stabilizer, he and his moter left (for obvious reasons). ...What? Unstable Semblance? Semblance stabiliser?

Now I know you're making stuff up. We haven't seen anything that suggests semblances are ever unstable, nor anything to suggest stabilisers are a thing. We don't even know if semblances are changable from an early age; but we do know that once your aura is unlocked it is set in stone. No ifs, buts or maybes. Your semblance is a manifestation of your aura. Once you unlock your aura, your base semblance never changes, it's not unstable, and semblance stabilisers are not a thing.

I suggest changing that little detail to his father was doing experiment to try to see if he can determine Ray's semblance before it's unlocked, to see if it is changable before unlocking Ray's aura, which leads to Ray losing an arm and his father being forced to unlock his aura. However, his semblance still wouldn't be unstable. And personally, unless you want to declare AU (which I'm assuming you're doing anyway because of the city he lives in and the like) I wouldn't say if his father ever figured it out before they left. Thanks for your suggestion, but let me explain my point here. We already know that there is a machine capable of transfering a gigantic power to someone else, even if maidens powers can be considered as specific and independent of semblance itself. And the science regarding semblance and aura is already advanced, as they were able to give Penny an aura. As Professor Pullman is what can be called a genius, he may have been able to create a semblance limitation system, maybe something acting on aura. Seeing as they were able of creating a synthetic aura, it is safe to speculate that they can developp things acting on aura, even in a small level.

Of course I am making assumptions, that's why we're here, to speculate and make things that may or may not exist. When I thought about unstable semblance, it was more something about having problems controlling it. And as it relies on smoke bursts, that could be dangerous. That's why his father wanted to bridle it. But the experiment went wrong and Ray lost an arm. The father then decided to incorporate a limitation system in the robot arm. No semblance chaging or unstablity, only control problems.

And about the city, I have said that it will be toned down a lot to a more canon level and explained that the "magnet effect" isn't as important as supposed, with Torchwick and the White Fang capable of living in Mountain Glenn (Grimm-infested) without apparent problem with the good safety policy, I suppose. So, for an island with a good tower defense system, lots of safety policy about possible grimm invasions (like emotional control over population through propagana and entertainment) and a criminal background that know that they must remain hidden to prevent grimm outburst, I think it is safe to say that it is possible.