Talk:Dust/@comment-172.2.74.190-20151228064508/@comment-4010415-20151229015344

The cloud in the very first episode had nothing to do with Glynda! That was the red Dust crystal exploding because the shot Roman fired hit it! Glynda blocked the explosion from hitting Ruby, probably with a shield generated using her telekinesis Semblance or something like that!

And no, Blake's clone does not look like a steam clone. It looks nothing like steam. If it was steam, it would've burst into a white cloud, not made inky black-and-purple energy!

Purple is NOT steam.

Orange Dust may be lava, not fire. The Dust in Cinder's stealth suit glowed orange, and she used it to make obsidian swords. Obsidian is black volcanic glass.

Like Phantomlink said, cyan/light blue Dust is more consistently used to make a shield that produces cyan shockwaves. Meanwhile, we've been more clearly shown that dark blue is ice. Weiss has dark blue and cyan Dust in Myrtenaster. One has to be ice and the other has to be the shield she made. Considering that the Dust shields have cyan coloring and that Ruby sneezed on DARK BLUE Dust to make ice in Volume 1, I'd say that dark blue is ice and cyan is shield. The ice biome in the tournament having light blue crystals was an inconsistency.

The shields cannot possibly be Aura because we have seen the same exact shockwaves on the shield in the colosseum, multiple times. It's a hell of a lot more reasonable to believe that the shield in the colosseum is made using Dust, rather than a bunch of people draining their own Aura to make a gigantic shield all day.

This is why I wish they would just outright tell us the fucking color code. If they're going to be inconsistent about how they show us the effects of Dust, they should just tell us what the color code is. I don't care if they do it through a World of Remnant video, an exposition scene in an episode, or a list on the RWBY page they plan to put on their website.

By the way, here are screenshots of the shields: