Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20200110085426/@comment-36926079-20200211045945

Glitchee123z wrote: ....Semblances literally are superpowers. In a purely meta sense they are. However, if Monty argued that semblances weren't magic, I'm pretty sure he'd argue that semblances aren't superpowers (at least in-universe).

To you and me, aura wielders appear superhuman, but in-universe, seeing a hunter or huntress use their semblance is probably no more shocking or unusual than watching people do complex calculus equations or deadlift 200 pounds. Even if we don't understand how to integrate equations, a skilled mathematician does.

What makes Ruby's semblance so unusual is the fact that her father, Qrow, and Harriet, all strong hunters in their own right, have no clue on how Ruby's semblance works. It's almost as if her semblance has no precedent. Isn't it unusual that Ruby's semblance is the only one we know of that is so ambiguous? Ruby's semblance is something unknown, something unusual.