Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20170505174118/@comment-25936766-20170702234504

Malcolm Neill wrote: Would Dual Scimitars which utitize Wind Dust and the user's semblance being able to manipulate the air around himself. Except with Wind Dust you can already manipulate the air around yourself. So the Semblance would still be superfluous.

Now, if we're talking specifically about scimitars infused with Dust and not anything else, then it might not be so superfluous if we assume there wouldn't be enough Dust to, say, make a tornado by spinning....

....but given a few particles of powdered Dust were enough to make an explosion of decent size, that would be unlikely.

The only use such a Semblance could have would be to, say, fly around. And air-related Semblances designed to do that have already been done, it's not even difficult to imagine.

Must the user's Semblance be related in any way to the exact same element as their weapon?

I don't think adding a gun mode do the scimitar would work. First of all, you can simply make the hilt be the gun-part, with the barrel pointing in a different direction from the blade by 45º. Simple, practical, pretty sure it's even been done in real life.

Case in point, Cervantes's gunsword.

Second of all, Dust is a thing, Aura shots of different sorts are a thing (like Blake's Blade Beams). So a gun-mode is not required for range anyway.