Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24534644-20170213012304/@comment-25936766-20170219230118

PisceanWaterbender wrote: Personally, @Someone, this gave me way too many Velvet vibes.... At plain sight, they are the same, but fundamentally they are different. (For simplicity, I'll name this Semblance's user Bob):

-Velvet must take a picture for every weapon, to get a "charge". Bob only has to see it, and has as many charges as his Aura allows.

-Velvet can only replicate 1 weapon at a time. Bob can create many weapons, as many as his Aura allows.

-Velvet can only copy weapons. Bob can create other things. Keys, grenades, etc.

-Like you said, Velvet's copies are hard-light. Bob's have the same properties as the original, though downgraded.

-Copying fighting styles is very irrelevant here, but I could easily argue that, since Bob is not imitating someone's movements, he can have his very own fighting style, thus making it far more Unique and Individualistic.

And combined with the fact he can create multiple weapons, and can detonate them, he's not restricted to ripping-off someone's style. Even if he copied, say, Blake's Gambol Shroud, he would still have his very own fighting style.

-And of course, Velvet's is a weapon, an object, that can be broken or stolen. Bob's, is a Semblance, an aspect of his very soul. Good luck stealing that.

Overall, they are only the same when you reduce them to their most basic: Copying something. When you look at the full picture, they are still different.

@Steam: I don't remember the first 3, but I'm 100% sure PSY-Duelist (still feels like a lame name) is NOT in any way similar to this one. IIRC, that one was making constructs, basically Summoning.