Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-70.72.38.180-20150401032633/@comment-25555436-20150427183233

Yet there's no real reason to believe you couldn't be able to make Lava spells using Fire Dust, is there? Remember that in fiction, if one can control fire, is not necesarily in the way of flames, but also in the way of the more liquid-like lava, if they so desire.

I remember that this was the case in Avatar. Some Firebenders could control fire in a way that they seemed to control lava, in addition to the more basic, flamey fire.

So there's no reason to believe that Fire Dust couldn't be used to perform more lava-like abilities.

You insist on it being the orange Dust. But why? Do we have any actual, canon, reliable info about what the orange Dust is? And if so, which one, because you can see 2 orange Dusts of different shades in Ruby Rose. Do we have canon info about Orange=Earth? For all we know, Earth could be the grey Dust instead (maybe closer to "stone" than downright earth but still).

I checked the image gallery of Cinder. The glowing lines, in ep1 of Vol.1, were actually not glowing at all, and dark grey, only starting to glow orange when she used the Dust. So, I've been thinking about what it could mean, and came up with 1 possible explanation: There is both Lightning and Fire Dust along those lines, and since Lightning=Yellow and Fire=Red, and Yellow+Red=Orange, the lines seem to glow orange. Even if she isn't using the Orange Dust. Though in some of the pics, mostly from Vol.2, the lines, even when not glowing, look mostly yellow.

Meanwhile, in her "catsuit" there's less Lightning and more Earth Dust (which is why the suit is mostly black and grey if Grey=Earth and how, combined with the Fire Dust, she made the obsidian weapons).