Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160528034745/@comment-24993958-20160530145242

Look dude, there is a lot of interpretation to be done here, I’ll give you that, but let’s look at it from a simpler angle.

Say there are 2 paths, one restrictive “for no good reason” clone type semblance, and one “let’s do it cause the show will obviously make one” copy other semblances semblance. Between the 2 which of them has an exponentially bigger chance to break canon? The second one. Why you may ask? Because the second route can be dismissed with a simple info dump and the only thing you have for it is purposeful and subjective interpretation of the shows lore. The first one can’t be removed from canon easily now can it? Because we have about 3 in the show already, with minor mechanical differences to make them “unique” and distinguishable from one another.

So let’s say the show sometime later states “semblance duplicator can exist”. Well then you can be as smug as you want and we will start saying yes more often to those types of semblances, but that day isn’t today. As of now, like the other times semblances like that have popped up, semblance duplicators break my, spirit, and others suspension of disbelief for what the show has shown semblances can do.

As such I will not, at this time, say yes to one of those semblances. You want to get praised for being such a creative and misunderstood genius “for no good reason”, there is the anything goes thread.