Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26397825-20170730020549/@comment-4010415-20170805001307

Indeed. To be honest, most of us end up thinking up this kind of stuff because we sit around discussing RWBY with each other a lot and rewatching the episodes, lol. I believe that Cinder is that good with Dust because she has trained her Aura more than most people do, and I believe Ren has too. WoR: Dust says that using raw Dust requires training and focus so that you don't lose control of the Dust, so since Dust can be activated by Aura, it's not too hard to imagine that the kind of training you need includes working on your control and manipulation of your own Aura. The reason I say that I think Ren did it too is because both Ren and Cinder made small circular Aura shields, and Ren seemed to use his Aura to enhance his hand-to-hand attacks against the King Taijitu.

So... it really is a mystery what her Semblance might be, and I hope that they reveal it at some point.

Anyway, to help turn this discussion back to gravity Dust, I'm gonna say: I hope we eventually get to see someone using gravity Dust in its raw form instead of bullets, aside from mixing it with Semblance, so we can get a good grasp on what it can be used for. The only problem is that it seems almost as if gravity Dust is rare for some reason (aside from in Salem's domain, if those purple crystals are gravity Dust). If so, I hope the show gives an explanation for that at some point.