Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20131018004029/@comment-11188061-20131018104131

This is a bit complicated. I'll try and explain things.

This Episode, Weiss had started with, "How did you..." and not "What is..."

This means that she already know Phyrra was using Magnetism or something similar to the Pull she employed in Episode 8.

We now look at the White Trailer. Weiss has demonstrated that through her Glyphs, she is able to manipulate different types of Dusts and recreate different kinds of attacks.

On the other hand, we can assume that without Dust, Weiss' Semblance is useless. I deduce that Weiss' Semblance must involve Dust or it would be completely useless.

This may be a reason why her weapon was so unique, and that she always carries around Dust reserves with her. This may also certainly be a strong reason why she may be shunned by her family (if that is indeed the case). Weiss' Semblance is near omnipotent if she has all kinds of Dusts with her (since she can recreate any effects), but without Dust it could do nothing at all.

In short, Weiss is a Jack in All Trades with limited ammo. Her character development would probably be focused at this area, where she ran out of Dust and feels useless and inferior to her peers.

Now, everyone else's Semblance is singular and basically one type only. For Ruby, it would be her speed. For Yang, it would probably be something like Explosion/Fire/Friction/whatever. For Phyrra, it's solely Magneticism. One unique skill only.