Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4899546-20160228200644/@comment-26882656-20160228223312

Dust is just elements. It's much simpler than you think. You use aura or something else (like a shot from a weapon) on a crystal or powder and the element forms. Shooting a fire crystal makes it explode into a fireball, shooting an ice crystal makes it freeze an area.

Lightning dust would only electrocute an area around it. Or, if you have it in your weapon, you could chanel it and shoot it from a gun or power up a sword. If you want magnetism you would have to go with a semblance (Pyrrha), with technology (Ruby, Blake and Neptune's weapon holders on their backs) ...or some unknown type dust that we don't know that doesn't exist, but I wouldn't go assuming it does.

As for paralysis... you are talking about like pokemon, where you can't move for a while, right? Not the real world version? The only thing I could come up with was when Neptune was electrocuting team NDGO and they couldn't move for a few seconds? Yea, sorry I can't help with that.