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@SilenceInTheLibrary

It's possible that this is the case, but based on the appearance of the glyph in comparison to her other glyphs, i.e. it is animated with a clockface, I'm thinking its either a dust-influenced glyph or a very different ball game altogether.

I think Weiss' white glyph is the standard non-dust affected glyph, since Myrtenaster doesn't have a white dust cannister.

Whilst I would like to agree with the idea that it doesn't distort time, I think the actual animation of the glyph, as said above something that none of her other glyphs appear to have, makes it too strongly seem linked to time in some way. The glyph I feel doesn't stop the missiles, but speeds up Blake's perception of time. This means she sees them move slower, and she appears to move faster. The purple energy I think is actually related to Blake and her weapons, rather than Weiss' glyph.

I say this because of Weiss' second use of the glyph, when fighting the Lieutenant. In this instance there is no purple energy, and Weiss is able to move at speeds almost comparable to that of Ruby when using her speed semblance.

The last thing to suggest the glyph is time-based is the way in which in affects the user when it runs out. Whilst we don't see it happen to Blake, Weiss's passage through time is actually slowed at the very end, allowing her to be grabbed out of the air by the Lieutenant.

Whilst it could be argued that this happens just because she stops moving quickly, I think it is actually a physical slowing of time, due to the noise we hear. Yes, I know it's the Slow Mo Guys noise. Yes, I know its a reference, but its a reference with purpose. That noise plays in Slow Mo Guys' videos when something goes into slow mo. That is what happens to Weiss.

So this all is why I think that the glyph is a time distortion glpyh. It could be either a separate part of Weiss' semblance, but due to the nature of dust, I think it's dust-influenced from her normal glyphs.

As for what dust can do that? Most likely an extremely expensive, hard to produce, rare time dust. And the obvious answer as to how Weiss can get her hands on time dust? She's Weiss Schnee. If anyone can get expensive and rare dust types without stealing it (Looking at you Roman) it'd be Weiss.