Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170206193307/@comment-25936766-20170211135949

KNN005 wrote: She's a blue mage right down to the color of the grid she forms. I've heard an horrendously high amount of people say that, and I'm going to give my general answer to that: Fucking no, that's not what a Blue Mage is goddammit.

A Blue Mage is someone who uses abilities learned from their oponents...learned by getting blasted in the face by them. Or in the more positive cases, just watching them.

What Velvet actually is, is a Mime. Someone who imitates the abilities of their allies, becoming a mix-and-match of them.

An example of a Blue Mage in RWBY would be someone who can imitate any Semblance used on them.

Velvet, meanwhile, imitated the exact same movements and weapons of multiple characters with almost the same level of effectiveness, which isn't on the line of Blue Magic, but of Miming.

It gets on my nerves every time I read anyone calling her that...get your classes right, people...