Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20161126183941/@comment-27144409-20161216195754

I may have been unclear, but basically she has to will them to activate. This means that she can activate them at any time, but they can't acitvate on their own as if they had a proximity trigger. I wanted to make this one more unigue. It's also a limitation that she can't just leave the trap and hide elsewhere waiting for screams. She has to keep an eye on them.

I debated tthe idea of gravity Dust making the spikes extend with immense force, but that felt inconsistent with how the other Dust types work with the Semblance. I had established that with most Dust types the spikes would be replaced with a directional elemental effect.

I was worried about balancing, and I was worried about persistent spikes being OP.

Google translate is all I got. (I know it's flawed.) I wanted to see how well shadow spots could translate into a name I liked the sound of.