Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160609071212/@comment-25936766-20160709213323

MiniDaggers wrote: 1. We don't know if obsidian or glass is a dust type and thus if Cinder's manipulation of it relates back to dust.

2. We don't know Cinder's semblance and I don't care if you find it a flawed argument, it is a reasonable one due to how it could affect this situation.

3. Remember that I am arguing against a person's ability to reshape/reform dust through the use of aura. Glynda can do it but she is telekinetic. Cinder can do it but her abilities are still very much a mystery. No one else to my knowledge has ever shown the ability to do it.

4-We have no reason to reasonably think another aura user can do what Cinder did without the use of a semblance variance that allows it. Especially as aura normally has shown only two basic functions: Protect (Shield) and Attack (Slash or Pulse). 1-I don't think it's a Dust type. But I do think it can be replicated by combining Dust. 1) Earth Dust to make Sand + Fire Dust = Glass (looking black like Obsidian in such case would be RoC). 2) Fire Dust to make Lava + Ice or Wind Dust to cool it = Obsidian.

2-No, that's god-like levels of stupid. When we do know what her Semblance is and what it does, then we'll take it into account in arguments. Until then, there is no reason to try to use an argument whose very existence relies solely on "Maybe" and "What if". Maybe it does, What if it does, and all that.

Burden of Proof means you must prove it does that. But you can't, no one can't, hence why even bother trying to argue with it when it's all just an assumption.

3-Not really a mistery. All she can do, any Aura user can. Block shots? Use Dust to simulate Magic? All of that, any Aura user can do it, eventually. The only unique ability Cinder herself has, is the Maiden powers, which are nothing more than control over the elements, at least some, which one can already do with Dust.

If the arrow is made entirely of Dust, controlling it would be no different than controlling a shard of ice or a piece of rock you made with Dust. Given that she pulls these arrows out of her ass, and she has nothing but Dust and Dust Clothes, pretty reasonable to say they are made entirely out of Dust, or at least the combined result of using different Dust elements.

Overall, nothing she has done has been truly "exclusive".

4-You're forgetting a crucial fact: Anyone with Aura can use Dust with said Aura. Weiss does it all the time, Glynda did it in the 1st episode as well, and so did Cinder well before getting the Maiden Powers.