User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/Reminder: Weiss' Semblance is Glyphs, Not Ice/@comment-86.165.118.236-20141201212759/@comment-4010415-20141202145431

I actually kind of stand firm against the idea of someone's Semblance being controlling a certain specific element, simply because they have Dust for that. An ice Semblance would be extremely pointless because people can just go to the store, buy ice Dust, and produce ice.

So, I think it's far more reasonable if Weiss' Semblance really is glyphs, and she can just manipulate how Dust's energy manifests via her glyphs.

For example, in Players and Pieces, when Weiss saved Ruby from the Death Stalker, you see a glyph on the ground beneath them, and the wall of ice is curved by the side of the glyph. Weiss may have used the glyph to push the ice Dust upward into a curved wall shape to make the ice form into a curved wall.

And then, in Painting the Town, we see Weiss place glyphs in front of Crescent Rose, and the bullets fired through the glyphs formed ice on the Paladin upon impact. Weiss may have used her glyphs to coat Ruby's bullets in ice Dust and then manipulate the release of the ice Dust's ice energy to be when the bullets hit the Paladin.

We have seen Weiss use fire Dust before, so we know that ice is not all she can do. We have also seen her use her glyphs for a variety of things, such as


 * Push - The glyphs have helped her leap in mid-air, leap forward, and even simply move forward along the ground at a high speed.


 * Pull - She used a glyph to pull Ruby back on the slingshot, glyphs on the cliff face pulled on Ruby's feet to make her stick to the cliff and allow her to run straight up it, and she even had a glyph hold her in the air somewhat upside down at an angle while fighting the Boarbatusk.


 * Block - She blocked the Boarbatusk with a glyph.


 * Haste - The clock glyph is pretty much a haste spell, as confirmed by the vol 2 directors commentary.

Her glyphs have had much more uses than just making ice. I'm pretty certain her Semblance is not ice.