Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170918133425/@comment-4010415-20171008031646

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: 1) Correction: I said Cyan Dust. I've seen people argue (and have argued myself) that the lasers could've been Ice Dust. Like, shards of ice fired off via the Glyphs, with the "laser" not being a real laser, just a trail-like visual effect for the sake of awesome. And this idea is consistent with how these "lasers" hit instead of piercing through like real lasers.

(Speaking of Firing Frozen Shards....how did that card look in RWBY Boardgame?)

Granted, this was before we saw that promo pic showing her firing off the less-icy-looking lasers. Though said pic might not be an accurate representation of the final product.

Whether the same was the case with Glynda's Glyphs though is another matter however. We've seen Weiss fire ice shards from glyphs while fighting Flynt, and there is no trail, merely large chunks of ice with a pointed end. The lasers in Players and Pieces had a sound effect that didn't really strike me as ice. And Penny's lasers generally didn't pierce things, except when she combined literally all of them into one giant cannon, so lasers in the RWBYverse don't necessarily have to pierce straight through something in order to count as lasers.

Besides, the giant Nevermore in Players and Pieces had a tough hide, hence Blake slashing away at it with no results and then telling Yang "It's tougher than it looks." It took Yang's bullets just fine until she started firing it down its throat, which wouldn't have the same defensive capabilities as the outer surface area of its body. Ruby had to drag it up a cliff and then snag it against the edge of the cliff, while also using momentum, just to behead it. So, that Nevermore, at the very least, was tougher than, say, a Beowolf or an Ursa, to the point where it would be crazy if Weiss' lasers could turn it into Swiss cheese.