Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131025065122/@comment-11188061-20131026070616

Extra: Phyrra's Magnetism Semblance is born from her desire for self-discipline and control. We've seen her being the perfect warrior so far, being able to respond and face any battle situation perfectly with complete calmness and control in her fight.

Perhaps Phyrra is actually bad with weapons and precision at the beginning. A girl doesn't have the best physical strength after all, and even Ruby and Yang, strong as they are, used Dust bullets to help propel and boost their hits. Since she came from a seemingly prestigious warrior tribe, she may have gone through a hard time trying to match expectations when she was just a child.

Her Semblance surfaced to aid her with her training and control - such as, her spear is too heavy and her arms are too weak, and so she used Magnetism to lighten the load. Perhaps she couldn't hit a target that's too far away accurately, even if she has the strength to make the distance, so she used her magnetism to keep her airm firm. Without people noticing it of course.

However, Phyrra did not slack off during her physical training, and now she could do what she couldn't do when she was a child. This gave her perfect control of her Semblance - if not a little too much control that it might not be able to evolve, since that meant losing control. It is a problem that she will need to solve in the future.

Also, this fits with the fact that Phyrra seemed to love playing little tricks and stuff. She's definitely not the brutally honest type like Ruby or the I-don't-care Yang, and she definitely understood that Jaune needed the confidence boost about his own strength when she got Ruby and Weiss to slip away quietly, not letting Jaune know that he had a little help from her.

And then there was that playful, joking push at the end. Yes, Phyrra is definitely playful.