Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29707557-20170119193929/@comment-4010415-20170123023035

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: ChishioKunrin wrote:

Monty compared it to Materia, from Final Fantasy 7. Materia is pretty much crystalized energy, and people can draw the energy from within those crystals to "cast" RPG-type spells like fire, lightning, and ice. ....Not just "cast spells like Fire and Ice". Materia in FF7 goes beyond that, and can provide the users with multiple abilities of different kinds, quite a number of which are not simple "Spells".

So depending on how much like "Materia" Dust is, one that gives someone some ability that isn't simple "Elemental/Physical Energy Release" may possibly exist.

At the moment, of course, it's just an hypothesis.... Indeed hypothesis. For the moment, we have no evidence of Dust that does something more than just elements, gravity, or whatever the hell makes barriers. (Though, if the Dust that makes barriers is the same Dust that powers the trains in the episode "Kuroyuri", I'm gonna start questioning whether or not Weiss saying "energy" was an example of a type of Dust)

Anyway, for now, from the various types of Dust we've seen, the behavior pattern of Dust doesn't really point to Dust being capable of turning someone into a crow. That seems more in the "magic and fairy tales are real" category.