Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27234079-20190901125053/@comment-4010415-20190902161457

Wilfred J. Pemberley wrote: Granaatti wrote: If ever shown in flashback, Cinder's semblance might have one of the more interesting development curves. Her jealousy towards those with natural talent could hint that her semblance wasn't originally seen as something powerful so I could imagine that the only thing she was able to do at first was just creating and manipulating dust/sand clouds. Learning to consentrate dust into glass and make it explode must have been the result of long hours of training and oh boy, those who laughed at her must have had a shock of the live time when the shards started to fly. The story of every school shooter, in a nut shell. Exactly.

Some (but not all) school shooters were bully victims. Here's the thing that some people don't realize... Part of that school shooter mentality, when coming from a bully victim, is anger toward those who made them suffer and those who saw it and did nothing. Depression already fucks with your mind as it is, warping the way that you view yourself and the world around you, but when you add anger to the mix and let it simmer, it turns pretty bad and fucked up.

Source: I was a bully victim who ended up depressed and held on to way too much anger for years. The anger didn't really come in until it clicked in my mind that literally the entire reason I was so depressed was because my peers had bullied and ostracized me. Thus, it was their fault, and I was disgusted that human beings could put someone through so much pain for as petty a reason as "she's weird and different".

With Cinder's allusion and Semblance, I can totally imagine her being reduced to being labeled as someone whose job it is to just clean.

On a more humorous note, I want a RWBY Chibi skit where characters are getting ready for a baking competition, and Cinder believes she has a leg up on everyone else because she can control the flour with her Semblance.

Cinder: But I have an ace up my sleeve, Mercury.~ Behold! My Semblance!! *Levitates the flour*

Mercury: You... control flour.

Cinder: Not just our flour. *Team JNPR's flour explodes (because honestly, Ren would be the biggest threat in such a competition)*

NVDelta wrote:

Take 2:

Cinder’s Semblance allows her to manipulate particles such as sand or dust (not to be confused with Dust). Furthermore, this manipulation extends to the ability to heat particles into glass or causing dust to explode, as shown in “Beginning of the End” when she kicks dirt from the ground to form glass projectiles, or when she causes the area near her arrows to explode around Amber.

She is first seen using her Semblance in “Ruby Rose” when she makes the dust under Ruby Rose and Glynda Goodwitch explode. Sounds good, though I'm a bit iffy about how to word the last sentence because someone could be skimming through and think it means the Dust Roman threw onto the roof. Maybe I'm being too paranoid.