Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140822003454/@comment-24891101-20140913052029

Yeah, I'm something of an archaic weapons type as well. The maquahuitl is one of my favorites.

Her glyphs, as seen in the first episode, and here again when she changes, are probably her semblance.

The thing I'm struggling with is the weapon creation itself. I can buy that it's advanced Dust manipulation, but of what types? The obvious answer would be Earth and Burn, but it doesn't seem as if there is such a thing as Earth Dust, which is a bit weird, given the name. And any form of outgassing from her clothes doesn't give her enough matter to even flash-glass that into obsidian. Though, if the fourth type of basic Dust is indeed merely energy, as Weiss may have said without a semicolon, then one may be able to simply convert it to enough matter, though my training rebels over the energies required. Though I still tend on the side of the semicolon, since, after all, Dust is referred to as "energy propellant", which would seem to support this view.

It would have made more sense to me if she had thrown down a Burn grenade of some sort, messed up the floor, then flash-forged the debris into her weapons.

Complete agreement on the bowstring.