Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160402201256/@comment-27450328-20160415141007

Arkantos95 : wat ? I don't understand

VedranThell/HookshotHotshot : The semblance is about letting him change his energy into smoke, and it can apply to his body to a certain extent. This may be legitimately considered as OP or uncanon, but this allows him to transform his body partially into smoke, not totally. His body did not dissapear completely, he can just propulse himself, become immune to bullets (but not fans...) and go through holes (relatively big, but not human-sized).

Moreover, he can't maintain that for too long (only a dozen of seconds) before he began to cough violently and must regain plain tangible form.

And don't forget that character have aura, which may be considered as soul and transcend the biological part (brain dissolved) for a certain time. For the clothes, it is common that powers don't interfere negatively with them, or Yang's would have burned for long (bad image in the head now, thank you for that...). We can suppose that, as they wear them a lot, they became infused with the user's aura.