Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131025065122/@comment-11188061-20131026031328

I was describing Weiss' character through her Semblance, that is, the essence of her Semblance. What Phyrra described was the powers of their Semblance in the most general way - she said Weiss' was glyphs because it looked like glyphs, and Ruby's speed because it is speed.

Here's a imaginative description: Weiss looks at the mirror and see her friends, but does not see herself. That's because she is the mirror itself, and a mirror can show everything except itself. It doesn't matter whether it's the real world or inside the mirror world - Weiss could not see herself anywhere.

And that's why she's lonely. She rejected her own existence as anything significant. She believed that she was the perfect girl who people wanted to exist for their sake.

Obviously, a Semblance - as an physical extension and manifestation of the soul itself - can change over time, as people do. That's why I said that when Weiss came to a resolution with her biggest inner conflict, her powers would evolve further from what it was right now, and the limitation from before would no longer be there - from the beginning, she's the one who put it there in the first place.

Now on Blake. She seems to have instateneous bursts of speed when she used her Aura during the Black Trailer, although I believe it's actually Time Manipulation. This inspiration is born from watching Dead Fantasy 2 where Tifa casted whatever-that-time-spell-is on the three of them and went super fast.

If I was to relate this to an event in her past, it would be that she may have believed that if she had been fast enough to prevent whatever tragedy's going to happen, if she could turn back time, maybe - Blake's a person who has a lot of regrets, and while she has a deep rooted belief of 'what's done cannot be undone', it doesn't stop her from wishing to change a past outcome. As of now, she may not even realize the true power of her Semblance, just like Weiss is.

So in the future, when she finally moved on from this dilemma, she may be able to turn back time on herself and even others for a few seconds.

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Onto Ruby.

She wears a red cloak that suits her own color, but is very similar to the mysterious White Cloak who we all believed to be very important to her. I'm not going to explain lengthily, but in short she seemed to be trying to mimick the White cloak in many ways - learning to use a scythe completely disporportionate to her own body size etc.

I believe that she's trying to catch up to the White Cloak's level, and become as strong as her. And she wants to reach that level fast, so that she could one day stand together with the White Cloak (previously, I speculated that Ruby does not know if White Cloak's current situation: Dead, missing, alive but confined etc).

And that's why her Semblance is speed. Not to mention her intense desire to catch up with the White Cloak as fast as possible, The White Cloak's most notable feature in Ruby's eyes is likely speed too - a speed so fast that no eye could not keep up.

And finally, Yang.

Previously, I've already speculated that Yang is not always as upbeat and happy as she seemed to be - to be honest, she was the most mature and understanding out of all team RWBY right now, and most steady. Steadier than Blake even.

As her Semblance had showed, Yang has a violent nature. I believe that she's an unsociable, easy-to-anger person until her younger sister Ruby, came into her life. Before that, she likely loses control over her Semblance very easily and caused immense amounts of destruction during fits of anger, and this in turn caused her to have no friends since they don't want to get hurt by her - which caused her to get even more prone to anger, since she has no friends - and for a time her life was a very dangerous downward spiral.

And then Ruby came into her life. As we know by now, Ruby is a very innocent and curious girl. We can judge from her reaction to Phyrra's powers - curosity and admiration - that her reaction to Yang's Semblance is probably also the same. Yang must've been shocked at that time - she was getting angry at this stupid little girl, and Ruby should've ran away like all her other stupid peers did, but instead all she's doing was admiring her burning hair and red eyes like it was the coolest thing in the world.

Ruby's presence saved Yang. If it wasn't for her, Yang might never have recovered from her heart's wound and become a monster who causes only destruction and misery. Since then she strived to change herself little by little, and as she became more sociable over time, her control over her Semblance too became stronger, much to everyone's relief.

Perhaps the reason why she hated people touching her hair was because in the past, her burning hair had accidentally hurt a friend (Junior was wearing gloves, so he couldn't have been burned - not to mention he was feeling the punches at that moment), and that friend deserted her because of it. She might've grown to hate her own hair even (and in turn harshly refuse anyone who tries to touch her hair), which was getting more and more out of control because of her increasingly negative emotions. Until Ruby.