Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20131018004029/@comment-24031103-20131020041626

I wonder if they have to train to master their semblance or even how their even figure what type they have?

Now let's me see if I can build on WC-871141143's guesses.

Starting with team RWBY: 87.114.11.43 wrote:

ruby=speed (we already know that one) Yeah that's pretty self-explaintory as it was said in the last episode. I do wonder about the petal effect she has when she speeds up though.

87.114.11.43 wrote:

weiss= a simple platform to be used with dust most of the time. i have also noticed that almost every time weiss waves her hand to create a platform, this might mean that she has been trained to summon her semblance (platform) whenever she does so. it is also like a blank canvas most of the time, there might be almost infinite combinations if you combine it with another person aura. e.g. in the episode players and peices, when weiss launches ruby in the air to finish off the nevermore you can see that the glyph (platform) is red. possibly because it has come in contact with ruby's aura/semblance. Weiss' [Glyph] seems to have it's main use in acting as a focus for her dust spells. As Zolnir earlier, Weiss pretty much needs to combine dust with [Glyph] for it to be useful. I would say at most without dust, she would only be able to use [Glyph] for her Air Step since it looks like they can't be used a platforms for very long.

87.114.11.43 wrote:

blake= agility to enhance her skills with gambol shroud ( her weapon). or night vision because if she is a faunus then maybe all faunus have that inherent semblence. also adam and blake could see well in the dark cart on the train in the "black" trailer ( if adam is a faunus aswell). Maybe hers deals with [Shadow].People have been saying that her after-images could be due to this. Going by this, you can say that her after-images are 'shadows' of herself that she can leave behind as decoy for defensive (evasion) or offensive (coutering) perposes in its most practical use. If going by the Faunus!Blake theory, the night vision is more of a race trait then a semblence ability. We shouldn't try to pin every ability to Semblence

87.114.11.43 wrote:

yang= explosion/friction/fire/burning (that sort of area) i think is well established in this thread. I also agree with Yang's semblance being a [Fire] type but I feel that her ability is a little abnormal compared to the others. I mean she lights up every time she's too fired up or hot under the collar. I know she's has a bit of a firey personality but... I don't know something seems a little off to me.

Now team JNPR: 87.114.11.43 wrote:

jaune= healing because we have seen no one else that heals himself after/during combat other than jaune. also as we all probably know, jaune is probably gonna get his ass kicked many times since he hasn't had any sort of proffesional combat training what so ever. so monty probably had that in mind when creating jaune as a character, so it will probably turn out useful most timeshe is in combat. p.s. i think that the reason jaune has that sword & sheith apart from the fact that it is a family heirloom is that he probably wasn't smart enough to design his own weapon. i mean look at ruby's weapon she even admitted she went "overboard" with its design. compared to jaune's weapon. and even his sheith is simple in design, there are even faults with its design of the initial purpose being "lighter to carry". No, I think Jaune's ability is a little different. even though we did she him heal at one point, that be a passive skill for aura. Going on from his "force field" comment a few episode back, I think he would have [Reflection] or [Negation] has he was able to block one of Cardiin's punches with his aura. However, since he is unskilled, he has no idea how he did it and probably uses up a lot of aura doing it

87.114.11.43 wrote:

nora= (unknown, someone please hypothesize on this one) Nora... Kinda hard to tell with her personality. we haven't seen her use anything of the sort yet which mean its a passive kind, she has to satisfy a condition before using it, or possibly due her personality, she doesn't want to use it near others unless necessary in case something goes wrong and she can't control it.

87.114.11.43 wrote:

phyrra= polarity/ magnetism (we already know this one). but she has used it another time in episode 4 when she used it to pull it out of jaune's hoodie. you can even hear a metallic twanging noise when she pulls it back. this also might have helped her when she saved jaune by throwing the javellin aswell as the recoil from the gun part of her weapon. [Polarity] for Phyrra was revealed so no need to go any farther with her. I wonder if metal thing stuck to her before she figured how to use it correctly.

87.114.11.43 wrote:

ren= something to do with defensive properties as he used it as a forcefield against two king taijitus. Ren... I got nothing on him right now.

Ok, other people: 87.114.11.43 wrote:

adam= absorbing energy and projecting it outwards. as seen in the "black" trailer againt a spider droid, we also saw black/red petals around him as he used this ability/semblance. Adam is probably a [Counter] type. this one seems a little hard to deduce for me right now

87.114.11.43 wrote:

glenda goodwitch= maybe something to do with telekinesis since she used her aura and a type of dust maybe against crimson Goodwitch does seem to fall under [Telekinesis]. A lot of her using Physical objects a projectiles

Well, that's my two cents on this. I wanted to say more but I need to think about it more with team JNPR.