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EmBELLEm wrote: It would be best not to use (lowercase) dust, but that's how it was described by the creators both times :/

Yeah, Cinder using Dust to melt dirt makes sense while on the other hand Adam's clothes also light up just for the lols when he's using his semblance. Literally the same visual effect. >.>

I've been meaning to go through all of Cinder's scenes and note all of her powers for a while now. Maybe I should do that... maybe... I'm not saying "Let's not use the word dust at all", to be fair. I just want to use it... less.

Fair point on Adam's Semblance, though his Semblance has a visual shift where the entire area around him becomes darker, so the glow helps him still stand out, and even when he's just absorbing power, it's an indicator of such. I'm just hesitant to say that the glow on her clothes isn't Dust because

1. Orange Dust has been shown to have association with lava, thanks to Volume 3. Obsidian comes from cooled lava, so Cinder's glass swords and arrows being black could indicate that they are, in fact, made of obsidian and thus are formed with the help of orange Dust.

2. Her clothes have glowed during times where she wasn't doing any sort of particle manipulation, such as when she made those fiery projectiles she shot at Glynda and the debris "snakes" in V1E1.