Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-35185827-20181221130439/@comment-4010415-20181221230558

1. I chalk it up to poor wording. Qrow was talking about things that people can do when using their Semblance. In the same exact sentence where he says Ruby "can burst into rose petals", he also simplifies Nora's Semblance down to merely "can absorb electricity", when that's not all that her Semblance does.

So it's most likely just bad wording, where he was leaving out other things that those two Semblances do.

2. The writers use the characters to tell us things like "Ruby's Semblance is speed, Weiss' is called Glyphs, and Pyrrha's is Polarity" and "That thing Jaune is doing to Weiss is his Semblance! It's not exactly healing, it's amplifying her Aura."

3. Who says Qrow was the one who helped Ruby discover her Semblance? It could've easily been Yang.

4. It could be that Ruby's Semblance propels her, thus granting her higher speed, while also giving her the ability to move in whatever direction she wants in mid-air specifically because it propels her.

5. "And also I’m vol1-3 thay weren’t just a visual effect since people were show interacting with them"

And Yang's eyes turning red because of her Semblance is an actual in-universe thing, as well. It's also just a visual signifier that she's using her Semblance.