Talk:Semblance/@comment-226878-20140815202941/@comment-4010415-20140817100419

The only thing I can figure is that spears and shields contain metal. I dunno. I did say that some members of the family may have their semblance manifest in a different way than their family's theme.

However, I think Pyrrha's emblem could instead signify that it's tradition for huntsmen and huntresses in her family to wield a spear. So instead of telling us a genetic semblance theme that runs in her family, it tells us what weapon the Nikos family is known for. This could apply to Nora's emblem, as well. Maybe the Valkyrie family is known for wielding weapons that transform into hammers.

As for Ren's emblem... who even knows? I'm still 100% certain that the circular shields he used to stop the King Taijitu's fangs were aura, not semblance. I swear, Cinder used the exact same thing, just a different color, to stop Ruby's bullets in the first episode. So, we don't know what his semblance is, and I'm pretty sure a lotus doesn't tell us what weapons the... Lie? family is known for.

I'm still not sure if the black stuff that trailed from Blake's hair in the Black Trailer and the volume 2 opening is shadows or belladonna petals. If it's petals, then maybe when she creates a clone, she emits belladonna petals, but we don't even notice it because of the blur of movement and how quickly her clones are eliminated.